Embedding employability into the curriculum

This Guide discusses a number of issues that need to be borne in mind when the desire is to embed (or embed more firmly)employability into a curriculum. It is therefore of particular relevance to colleagues who are designing new curricula or are considering how existing curricula might be ‘tuned’ in order to accentuate the potential of their programmes to develop students’ employability. Further, it should be helpful to those whose curricula
are coming up for review under an institution’s (or some external body’s) quality assurance processes.

The complexity of employability and the variety that exists in curricula in UK higher education mean that no single, ideal, prescription for the embedding of employability can be provided. Embedding has to be undertaken with reference to the curricular context, and hence this Guide should be treated as offering a number of pertinent points which may be useful to those responsible for whole curricula – and, in particular, for curricular components – as they grapple with curricular challenges.