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Our Strategy, your ideal student: learning for employability

Our Strategy, your ideal student: learning for employability. How one University is implementing its employability strategy at the local level Presenter: Dr Phil Margham Director of Academic Innovation, JMU. JMU Employability Strategy.

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Our Strategy, your ideal student: learning for employability

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  1. Our Strategy, your ideal student: learning for employability How one University is implementing its employability strategy at the local level Presenter: Dr Phil Margham Director of Academic Innovation, JMU

  2. JMU Employability Strategy • Curricular embedding of Generic and Career Management skills • PDP: culture of reflective practice • WBL opportunities in all taught UG programmes

  3. The Employability Culture • Permeation of employability skills throughout curriculum • Expanded range of delivery and assessment styles linked to employability agenda • Perceived need to make skills development, and links to employment, a more explicit process.

  4. Your ideal student risk taker self motivated judgement adaptable reflective people skills

  5. Some local exemplars BA Applied Consumer Studies BSc Coaching Science Cert HE Sports Development FD Tourism & Culture

  6. BA Consumer Studies • Strong employer involvement with programme design. • Role of Tutorial Module:diagnosis, target setting via PDP, employment demands. • Two placements, 12c and 24c. WBL not WBE. Heavy investment in staff visits. • Strong links with industry: “no-one is just an academic……”

  7. BSc Coaching Science • Emphasis on reflective practice, changing WBE to WBL. • Perceived synergy between focusing on employability inputs and research output. • Lessons learnt from Coaching Science translated to other Sports Science courses. • Confidence that skills learned from placement do transfer into employment.

  8. Reflective Practice with Science students • Theory of reflective techniques, practice. • Objective setting via learning agreement. • Reflective journal on placements. • Weekly links with tutors (action learning). • Reflective essay as part of assessment.

  9. Employability: the best we can hope for “There comes a point in student’s lives when they have to make a step-change: HE can take them so far, but they then have to deal with the challenges that employment throws up.” Mantz Yorke (2004) LTSN Generic Centre: Learning & Employment Series

  10. classic

  11. modern classic

  12. modern learning @ work classic

  13. CertHE Sports Development • Open curriculum with 50% negotiated learning. • Tension between needs of employer (training) and University (learning). • Mix of students, many graduates, others non-HE experience. • All employed in sports areas in some capacity. Usually recruited in employment groups.

  14. Some quotes from Dave Haskins (course leader) “The more we move towards an employability focus, the more difficult it is for the University.” “Cert HE is not teaching heavy, but it certainly is admin heavy.” “Delivery through action learning broadens their view of the world within a pedagogical structure. Employers could not replicate this.”

  15. FD Tourism & Culture • Collaborative provision of FD, involving JMU and several FE partners, each specialising to limited extent. • As usual, concern about articulation with an honours degree. • Possible for FD students to join the BA Leisure & Tourism programmes, but..…..

  16. FD Hons Top-Up by WBL L3 based in the work-place(s). Regular (1 day/week) attendance at college. Resources geared to learning negotiation and student support. Product: highly-developed employee with honours graduate attributes. No debts?

  17. Conclusions Questions?

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