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How to Enable the Employability of University Graduates [Hardback]

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  • Formāts: Hardback, 392 pages, height x width: 234x156 mm
  • Sērija : How To Guides
  • Izdošanas datums: 12-May-2023
  • Izdevniecība: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
  • ISBN-10: 1803926503
  • ISBN-13: 9781803926506
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  • Formāts: Hardback, 392 pages, height x width: 234x156 mm
  • Sērija : How To Guides
  • Izdošanas datums: 12-May-2023
  • Izdevniecība: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
  • ISBN-10: 1803926503
  • ISBN-13: 9781803926506
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.

Recenzijas

How to Enable the Employability of University Graduates is a comprehensive blueprint for enabling employability and improving student outcomes. The contributors suggest innovative approaches to embedding employability in the curriculum vis-ą-vis strong graduate outcomes and inclusive career opportunities, understanding what employers want from graduates with a strong focus on developing employable graduates who continue to be useful in the long term. -- Obinna Okereke, Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) Blog A thoughtful and challenging compendium of insights into employability a really important agenda for individuals, employers and policymakers alike. This book highlights research that we can all learn from and build on in pursuit of securing positive graduate outcomes for all. -- Daisy Hooper, Chartered Management Institute, UK How to Enable the Employability of University Graduates is a valuable and much-needed addition to the complex conversation around graduate employability. With its emphasis on shared responsibility and a genuine vision for improving graduate outcomes for non-traditional students, this book will appeal to practitioners, policy makers and students alike.' -- Caroline Rueckert, Griffith University, Australia The book provides valuable insights into developing student employability, paying due consideration to unlocking the potential of under-represented student groups. It recognises the need for future students to create work, exploring entrepreneurisms fit with employability. The book should be an interesting read for researchers and practitioners in higher education, given the importance of graduate employability in the sector. -- Denise Jackson, Edith Cowan University, Australia

List of figures
ix
List of tables
x
Reflections xi
List of contributors
xiii
Foreword xvii
Preface xix
List of abbreviations
xxiii
PART I INTRODUCTION AND CONTEXT
1 Why employability matters
2(11)
Saskia Loer Hansen
Kathy Daniels
2 Whose job is it to make a graduate employable?
13(11)
Martin Edmondson
3 Employability: the student voice
24(12)
Omolabake Fakunle
Yuchen Xiao
PART II WHAT EMPLOYERS WANT FROM GRADUATES
4 Creating a new university to meet the employability challenge
36(11)
Ross Renton
Fiona McGonigle
5 Developing employability skills through working in a law clinic
47(9)
Kaye Howells
Sue Jennings
6 Problems delivering the skills employers want? Creativity - a case in point
56(11)
Elaine Clarke
7 Mind the gap: employers' and students' perceptions of skills and knowledge needed by accounting graduates in Greece
67(12)
Efimia Anastasiou
Siobhan Neary
Alison Lawson
PART III EMPLOYABILITY AND THE CURRICULUM
8 Employer input to curriculum and assessment
79(10)
Gillian O'Brien
Darren Siggers
9 Real work opportunities in the curriculum: three different approaches
89(11)
Charles Hancock
Tracy Powell
John Day
Alison Lawson
10 Using a professional skills module to develop student confidence
100(9)
Parminder Johal
Ruth Smith
11 Developing an ecosystem: employability skills and authentic assessments
109(9)
Sarah Montano
PART IV INNOVATIVE APPROACHES TO CAREER GUIDANCE
12 Using career pathways to tailor and personalize employability activities
118(9)
Rebekah Marangon
13 The Career Studio: peer-to-peer support
127(9)
Emma Moore
Paul Gratrick
14 Supporting employment outcomes for students from Asia
136(13)
Louise Nicol
PART V PRACTICAL EXAMPLES OF EMPLOYABILITY ACTIVITIES
15 Using social action to support skill development
149(10)
Fiona Walsh
16 The Big Challenge: interdisciplinary development of employability skills
159(9)
Valerie Derbyshire
Laurice Fretwell
Caroline Harvey
17 Modifying the journey to graduate employment through changes to work-based learning
168(11)
Catherine O'Connor
PART VI ENTERPRISE/ENTREPRENEURIAL OPPORTUNITIES
18 `One for all and all for one': the 3Es (employability, enterprise, and entrepreneurship)
179(9)
Emily Beaumont
19 BSEEN: extra-curricular enterprise and entrepreneurship support
188(10)
Carolyn Keenan
PART VII WIDENING PARTICIPATION
20 Employability monsters: breaking barriers to employability for widening participation students
198(9)
Dawn Lees
Kate Foster
21 Supporting `first in family' students: My Generation Career Coaching Programme
207(8)
Heather Pasero
22 Unlocking the potential of under-represented students
215(9)
Iwan Williams
Pamela McGee
23 Social mobility and London's left-behind graduates
224(10)
Emily Dixon
PART VIII INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS
24 Using the net promoter score to understand international alumni satisfaction
234(10)
Shane Dillon
25 Meeting the employability expectations of international students in transition to higher education in the UK
244(9)
Victoria Wilson-Crane
Linda Cowan
26 How partnerships can make a difference to securing jobs for international students
253(10)
Jacklyn Tubb
Caroline Fox
PART IX INSIGHTS FROM AROUND THE WORLD
27 How England's policy and regulatory levers have shifted accountability for graduate employment
263(10)
Lizzy Woodfield
28 Approaches to developing graduate employability in Australia
273(11)
Judie Kay
Sonia Ferns
29 Enabling employability in New Zealand
284(11)
Brett Berquist
30 Lessons from Germany
295(9)
Patrick Glauner
31 European University initiative in enabling student success
304(10)
Rendta Tomdskovd
Ida Andersson-Norrie
Bice Delia Plana
Anna Chudy
Melpo Iacovidou
Colombine Madelaine
PART X INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSE
32 Widening the reach of employability skills development
314(9)
James Forde
33 An integrated institutional approach to employability
323(11)
Dino Willox
Anna Richards
Madelaine-Marie Judd
34 A strategic institutional approach to employability
334(9)
Susan Smith
Emily Huns
35 Student experience(s) and an integrated pastoral approach to employability
343(9)
Matthew Vince
Thea Jones
PART XI A FINAL REFLECTION
36 Reflections on 20 years of research on employability and its effect on policy and practice
352(7)
Helen Higson
Index 359
Edited by the late Saskia Loer Hansen, formerly Deputy Vice-Chancellor (International and Engagement) and Vice-President, RMIT University, Australia and Kathy Daniels, Honorary Professor, Aston University, UK