No matter where you look in the world, the issue of employability – in particular graduate student employability – is high on the agenda for many. From students to regulators to universities, understanding and making effective progress on employability is…
Continue ReadingErnst and Young drops degree classification threshold for graduate recruitment: ‘No evidence’ that success at university is linked to achievement in professional assessments, accountancy firm says. (Times Higher Education, August 3rd 2015) So said the headline in a THES back…
Continue ReadingPart 1 of this short blog series discussed the nature of #competencies and asked the question: what combination of knowledge, skills, abilities and other attributes does a person need to be competent at doing a certain thing, at a certain…
Continue ReadingAs competition and markets enter education, there is growing awareness of what a student gets out of education and a career it can lead towards. So students are hunting out what can make them employable both today and into a…
Continue ReadingThe UK’s Universities Minister, Sam Gyimah, is taking on a very complex challenge in proposing a ratings scheme for courses. Using such measures as student satisfaction, drop out rates and destinations data are fraught with problems. It is very hard…
Continue ReadingIncreasingly, Education, Employers and Employees are thinking about the demands of occupations and the supply of talent in terms of competencies (#competencies) For Education, competencies are becoming a key measure of the employability (#employability) outcomes of course curricula. For Employers,…
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