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Every Student Counts: Promoting Numeracy and Enhancing Employability

Every Student Counts: Promoting Numeracy and Enhancing Employability. Rationale

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Every Student Counts: Promoting Numeracy and Enhancing Employability

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  1. Every Student Counts: Promoting Numeracy and Enhancing Employability Rationale The higher education community, professional bodies, government and employers are all concerned about the numerical competency of undergraduates. However, not all academic disciplines enable undergraduates to practise and/or develop their numeracy skills beyond their compulsory education. Yet all undergraduate students need to be numerically competent if they are to progress in their chosen discipline and enhance their graduate employment prospects. Aim To investigate the learning, teaching and assessment opportunities, and curriculum and student support requirements necessary for developing students’ numerical skills within undergraduate programmes in order to strengthen student progression and employability. • Objectives • To identify: • the numerical knowledge and skills required within the disciplines of history, • bioscience (including health disciplines) and business studies, and how they might • be better developed within curricula; • the generic numerical skills required by graduate employers, and how their • development might be better supported across all disciplines. • Methodology • The project is using a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods to elicit the perspectives of all stake-holders (i.e. students, tutors and graduate employers). • Data collection instruments include: • Surveys (paper and online) of students, tutors and • employers • Focus group discussions with students • Interviews with tutors • Approach • History curricula at the three partner institutions (UCLan, • MMU, SHU) are being compared with those from other • UK and overseas institutions to assess to what extent • and how effectively numeracy skills are being taught. • Within UCLan, biosciences (including health disciplines) • and business studies are being used as comparators • with history to highlight contrasting and/or • complementary subject dimensions and to establish the • relevance of findings for other disciplines. Project Team Professor Vicki Tariq (Project Director) (UCLan) Dr NaureenDurrani (UCLan) Professor Geoff Timmins (UCLan) Dr Claire Worthington (UCLan) Professor Dave Nicholls (MMU) Professor Roger Lloyd-Jones (SHU) Further details of the project may be obtained at: www.uclan.ac.uk/ldu/resources/NTFS/every_student_counts.htm

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