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Employability and the Education Curriculum

Employability and the Education Curriculum. An initiative in collaboration with ESCalate RMHPilkington@uclan.ac.uk. My involvement. 1997-2000 TransLang Project (FDTL) 2000-2 National Project ‘Developing Learning Organisations’

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Employability and the Education Curriculum

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  1. Employability and the Education Curriculum An initiative in collaboration with ESCalate RMHPilkington@uclan.ac.uk

  2. My involvement • 1997-2000 TransLang Project (FDTL) • 2000-2 National Project ‘Developing Learning Organisations’ • 2004 – Languages Subject Centre – project on Skills and portfolios • My lessons: • Learning to learn part of employability • Value of arts, humanities & social sciences • Value of engaging with employers

  3. Objectives of this initiative in ESS • To explore and disseminate methods of incorporating employability in the education curriculum • To establish an Employer Forum for ESS involving students, staff (college and university) and employers • To enhance employability within the ESS curriculum

  4. Initial activity • Graduate Survey • Level 3 survey of employability • Establish a database of Employers • Exploit existing ceth, futures and DLO models of embedding employability A Student Intern Project will be used to collate data and present initial findings

  5. Next steps • Utilise survey data as a basis for exploring Education Curricula and Employability • Redesign the curriculum to respond to findings • Run a series of workshops to explore Education Subjects and Employability at local, regional and national levels

  6. Wider Engagement • Workshop in December and March (local) • National Conference • Employer Forum in Summer ’09 • Further regional and national events ….. Funding from ESCALATE will cover dissemination activity

  7. Student Engagement • Delivered in January • Students require around 10-15 mins to complete survey in class • Gather and return forms to RP • Student Interns will process and produce a report by (module, Subject, etc)

  8. Graduate Engagement • From January, on website • Invitation to alumni to participate • Fill out survey on-line • Interns collate data • Collect 8 case studies from data • Student Interns to collect employer contacts for a database

  9. Employer Engagement • Database designed • Contacts from Staff • Alumni contacts • Stakeholder representation • Planned Employer Forum

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