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Employability

Employability. Peter Scales Lifelong Learning Consultant. www.peter-scales.org.uk. Overview of the ‘employability agenda’ What is employability? How can we develop it?.

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Employability

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  1. Employability Peter Scales Lifelong Learning Consultant www.peter-scales.org.uk

  2. Overview of the ‘employability agenda’ • What is employability? • How can we develop it?

  3. “The employers were of the opinion that their young recruits were inarticulate, tongue-tied, showed little initiative, and were unable to work effectively with other people.” Hind, D. and Moss, S. (2005) “Employability Skills” Referring to Sunday Times survey of employers April 1986

  4. What is employability? What do employers say they want?

  5. UKCES definition “We take employability to be the skills that almost everyone needs to do almost any job.” ‘The Employability Challenge’ UKCES February 2009 (UK Commission on Employability and Skills)

  6. Using numbers effectively Using language effectively Using IT effectively UKCES Model of employability Self management Thinking and solving problems Work together and communicate Understanding the business Positive approach

  7. How can we deliver employability skills? develop

  8. Two ways Discrete Embedded

  9. “Employability is, at heart a process of learning” Harvey, Locke and Morey, 2002:2)

  10. UKCES “The Employability Challenge The core of developing employability skills is broadly agreed to be: ● experiential action-learning using skills rather than simply acquiring knowledge, with an emphasis on trial and error and a focus on the pay-off for the learner in employment and progression

  11. ● work experience, preferably work placements, but otherwise classroom experiences that simulate the complexity, ambiguity, unpredictability and consequences of success or failure present in the workplace

  12. opportunities for reflection and integration: learners, with feedback from staff, peers and employers, look at learning experiences and prepare to put them into action in other situations

  13. Many priorities – one solution? Reflection Lifelong learning Employability Sustainabilty Citizenship ‘Skills development’

  14. Don’t start with these priorities and issues and think about how you can achieve them… Think about teaching and learning first, and these things will follow

  15. T & L methods to encourage employability Group work Case studies Discussion Peer teaching Presentations Wikis and blogs Concept mapping Projects Research Simulations

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