Tag: employability

A Framework To Ensure More Inclusive And Personalised Student Employability And Career Services: Learning From The Best 

  By

Duyen Chu, Qijun Zhou and Alistair Bogaars

Introduction  

Employability and career services are an integral part of any UK higher education institution (HEI). Many factors can affect and shape the employability and career services of a university, including the constantly increasing demand of the job market, legal and professional requirements and institutional strategic priorities. In this blog, we develop and propose a framework for ensuring more inclusive and personalised student employability and career services. Materials for developing this blog derive from our broader Scholarship Excellence in Business Education (SEBE) and Connected Cities Research Group (CCRG)-funded project on student employability optimisation. 

Continue reading

Working Towards A Measurement Of Internship Placement Value  

  By

Ronald Gibson and Raluca Marinciu

The current neo-liberal valuation of higher education views universities as the provider of labour market resources and improved student job prospects for those undertaking a business subject (Green, Hammer and Star, 2009; Holmes, 2013; Tomlinson, 2012; Tymon, 2013). Employability literature debates the postmodern internship as the answer to prepare students for work (Gault et al., 2000), gain transferable skills (Hillman and Rotham, 2007) and improve long-term employability (Hergert, 2009). However, not all internships are created equal, or lead to graduate level employment. In this piece we are referring to an internship as being a minimum of nine months of work experience, which can also be identified as a ‘placement year’.  

Continue reading