Resources
The resources below give an indication of materials being used to inform employability policy in HE institutions.
Definitions of employability
- Bologna Process and employability
- Council for Industry and Higher Education
- National Student Forum Annual Report 2009
- Universities UK and Confederation of British Industry report on employability (Adobe PDF 8MB)
- UK Commission for Employment and Skills
Perspectives on employability (available to download from the Higher Education Academy web-site)
- 'Employability and students' educational experiences before entering higher education' (MS Word 204K)
- 'Transition into Higher Education: some implications for the 'employability agenda'' (MS Word 230K)
- 'The Undergraduate Curriculum and Employability' (MS Word 251K)
- 'Transitions from higher education to work' (MS Word 521K)
- 'International perspectives on employability' (MS Word 249K)
Employability briefings (available to download from the Higher Education Academy web-site)
- 'Issues for employers' (Adobe PDF 310K)
- 'Are your students employable?' (Adobe PDF 330K)
- 'The Contribution of Learning, Teaching, Assessment & other Curriculum Projects to Student Employability'
- 'Encouraging the development of employability: a guide for busy senior managers' (Adobe PDF 707K)
- 'Helping departments to develop employability' (Adobe PDF 685K)
- 'Good learning and employability: issues for HE careers services and practitioners' (Adobe PDF 288K)
- 'A subject community perspective on supporting the development of employability' (MS Word 3.1MB)
Learning and employability guides (available to download from the Higher Education Academy web-site)
- 'Employability and work-based learning' (Adobe PDF 1.5MB)
- 'Pedagogy for employability' (Adobe PDF 2.8MB)
- 'Employability in higher education: what it is, what it is not' (Adobe PDF 1.6MB)
- 'Employability: judging and communicating achievements' (Adobe 1.5MB)
- 'Embedding employability into the curriculum' (Adobe PDF 2MB)
- 'Reflection and employability' (Adobe PDF 1.3MB)
- 'Widening participation and employability' (Adobe PDF 1.8MB)
- 'Entrepreneurship and higher education: an employability perspective' (Adobe PDF 1.5MB)