How to enable the employability of university graduates

edited by Saskia Loer Hansen (Deputy Vice-Chancellor (International and Engagement), RMIT University, Australia) and Kathy Daniels (Associate Pro-Vice Chancellor (Engagement), Aston University, UK)

"Students invest significant resources in coming to university and universities play a crucial role in enabling their students to benefit from this investment and to be employable once they have finished their degree. Giving a platform to the debate about graduate employability from the student, university and employer perspectives, this innovative How To Guide explores the challenges associated with ensuring the employability of university graduates. In defining the nature of employability, the book discusses how the concept is a shared responsibility dependent on individual capabilities, the labour market and social capital. Considering what employers want from graduates, this book looks at how universities can provide strong graduate outcomes and inclusive career opportunities irrespective of student background. The book illustrates ways to embed employability across the curriculum, suggesting innovative approaches to careers guidance and specific employability initiatives, while upholding the benefits of entrepreneurial activities and widening participation opportunities. With insights from around the world, the book concludes by thinking about the institutional response to the challenges faced by the employability agenda, reflecting on how research has developed over the past 20 years. Interdisciplinary and comparative in scope, this book of international case studies of employability approaches across a wide range of educational institutions will prove an engaging resource for students and scholars of business, education management, and teaching methods. Its exploration of regulatory environments will also prove useful for policymakers working in education"--

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Year of publication:	2023
Other Persons:	Hansen, Saskia Loer (ed.) ; Daniels, Kathy (ed.)
Institutions:	Edward Elgar Publishing (publisher)
Publisher:	Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
Subject:	Studium \| University education \| Absolventen \| Graduates \| Beschäftigungsfähigkeit \| Employability \| Lehrplan \| Curriculum \| Hochschule \| Higher education institution

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Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (392 pages)
Series:	How to guides
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Aufsatzsammlung
Language:	English
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index Contents: Foreword -- Preface -- List of abbreviations -- Part I. Introduction and context -- 1. Why employability matters / Saskia Loer Hansen and Kathy Daniels -- 2. Whose job is it to make a graduate employable? / Martin Edmondson -- 3. Employability: The student voice / Omolabake Fakunle and Yuchen Xiao -- Part II. What employers want from graduates -- 4. Creating a new university to meet the employability challenge / Ross Renton and Fiona McGonigle -- 5. Developing employability skills through working in a law clinic / Kaye Howells and Sue Jennings -- 6. Problems delivering the skills employers want? Creativity - a case in point / Elaine Clarke -- 7. Mind the gap: Employers' and students' perceptions of skills and knowledge needed by accounting graduates in greece / Efimia Anastasiou, Siobhan Neary and Alison Lawson -- Part III. Employability and the curriculum -- 8. Employer input to curriculum and assessment / Gillian O'Brien and Darren Siggers -- 9. Real work opportunities in the curriculum: Three different approaches / Charles Hancock, Tracy Powell, John Day and Alison Lawson -- 10. Using a professional skills module to develop student confidence / Parminder Johal and Ruth Smith -- 11. Developing an ecosystem: Employability skills and authentic assessments / Sarah Montano -- Part IV. Innovative approaches to career guidance -- 12. Using career pathways to tailor and personalise employability activities / Rebekah Marangon -- 13. The career studio: Peer-to-peer support / Emma Moore and Paul Gratrick -- 14. Supporting employment outcomes for students from asia / Louise Nicol -- Part V. Practical examples of employability activities -- 15. Using social action to support skill development / Fiona Walsh -- 16. The big challenge: Interdisciplinary development of employability skills / Valerie Derbyshire, Laurice Fretwell and Caroline Harvey -- 17. Modifying the journey to graduate employment through changes to work-based learning / Catherine O'Connor -- Part VI. Enterprise/entrepreneurial opportunities -- 18. 'One for all and all for one': The 3es (employability, enterprise, and entrepreneurship) / Emily Beaumont -- 19. Bseen: Extra-curricular enterprise and entrepreneurship support / Carolyn Keenan -- Part VII. Widening participation -- 20. Employability monsters: Breaking barriers to employability for widening participation students / Dawn Lees and Kate Foster -- 21. Supporting 'first in family' students: My generation career coaching programme / Heather Pasero -- 22. Unlocking the potential of under-represented students / Iwan Williams and Pamela McGee -- 23. Social mobility and London's left-behind graduates / Emily Dixon -- Part VIIi. International students -- 24. Using the net promoter score to understand international alumni satisfaction / Shane Dillon -- 25. Meeting the employability expectations of international students in transition to higher education in the uk / Victoria Wilson-Crane and Linda Cowan -- 26. How partnerships can make a difference to securing jobs for international students / Jacklyn Tubb and Caroline Fox -- Part IX. Insights from around the world -- 27. How England's policy and regulatory levers have shifted accountability for graduate employment / Lizzy Woodfield -- 28. Approaches to developing graduate employability in australia / Judie Kay and Sonia Ferns -- 29. Enabling employability in new zealand / Brett Berquist -- 30. Lessons from Germany / Patrick Glauner -- 31. European university initiative in enabling student success / Renata Tomaskova, Ida Andersson-Norrie, Bice Della Piana, Anna Chudy, Melpo Iacovidou and Colombine Madelaine -- Part X. Institutional response -- 32. Global professional award: A three-year skills development programme / James Forde -- 33. An integrated institutional approach to employability / Dino Willox, Anna Richards and Madelaine-Marie Judd -- 34. A strategic institutional approach to employability / Susan Smith and Emily Huns -- 35. Student experience(s) and an integrated pastoral approach to employability / Matthew Vince and Thea Jones -- Part Xi. A final reflection -- 36. Reflections on 20 years of research on employability and its effect on policy and practice / Helen Higson -- Index.
ISBN:	978-1-80392-651-3 ; 978-1-80392-650-6
Other identifiers:	10.4337/9781803926513 [DOI]
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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