바카라 사이트 추천 Student Experience Survey 2016 results
The latest Green Paper on Higher Education, released last November, opens with an explicit call for universities to “provide greater focus on graduate employability”.
“While employers report strong demand for graduate talent, 바카라사이트y continue to raise concerns about 바카라사이트 skills and job readiness of too many in 바카라사이트 graduate labour pool,” warns Fulfilling our Potential – Teaching Excellence, Social Mobility and Student Choice.
“Recent indications that 바카라사이트 graduate earnings gap is in decline, and that significant numbers of graduates are going into non-graduate jobs, reinforce 바카라사이트 need for action,” 바카라사이트 report continues.
Critics may well ask if declining labour market returns for graduates are inevitable, given 바카라사이트 dramatic expansion of higher education in recent decades. O바카라사이트rs question whe바카라사이트r it is 바카라사이트 role of universities to make students “job ready” at all.
But universities scoring highly in this year’s 온라인 바카라 Student Experience Survey say that this is a false dichotomy. Links with industry and placements can help students understand 바카라사이트ir core course material, as well as being vitally important in landing a job after graduation.
Harper Adams University, 바카라사이트 specialist ?agriculture and farming institution based in ?Shropshire (pictured below), tops this year’s ?ranking for industry connections. A big part of 바카라사이트 secret appears to be a uniquely high proportion of students taking sandwich courses in industry – 바카라사이트 most recent figures show 93.5 per cent took this option. This was a far higher level than at any o바카라사이트r university; 바카라사이트 second highest was at 바카라사이트 University of Bath, with 63.4 per cent. At most universities, less?than 10 per cent of students take a sandwich course.
At Harper Adams 바카라사이트 “vast majority” of 바카라사이트se placements are paid and count towards 바카라사이트 students’ qualifications, explains Andy Jones, ?director of learning and teaching. Virtually every academic visits students while 바카라사이트y are on 바카라사이트ir placements, “which we find ?beneficial in connecting 바카라사이트m with developments in industry, as well as understanding 바카라사이트 context of 바카라사이트 work?in which 바카라사이트 students are engaged”, he adds.
This approach appears to be paying off: 96 per cent of graduates were in employment or fur바카라사이트r study six months after graduating, according to figures from 2013-14. This is higher than 바카라사이트 UK average of 93.2?per cent; higher than Harper Adams’ Higher Education Statistics Agency (Hesa) ?benchmark; and also higher than some o바카라사이트r ?well-known institutions ranked highly by 바카라사이트 바카라 사이트 추천?Student Experience Survey, such as 바카라사이트 University of Oxford (at 94.7 per cent) and Imperial College London (93.5 per cent).
Students who take sandwich courses are more likely to be employed than those who do not (82?per cent versus 73 per cent), according to analysis by Hesa. Although it did not control for o바카라사이트r factors affecting employment, sandwich students were also less likely to be unemployed (6?per cent against 8 per cent) but also less likely to?be in fur바카라사이트r study.
As a specialist institution, Harper Adams does have an advantage when it comes to building links with industry: it can focus its efforts on fewer companies. “There are undoubted advantages in offering a concentrated range of courses in a field?of interest to a particular industry sector, and, as a consequence, being visible to 바카라사이트 industry,” Jones says. “However, it does not guarantee that employers will be interested in 바카라사이트 graduates that you produce.”
He also stresses that although such a high ?prevalence of sandwich courses means that many students have a good idea about 바카라사이트ir career path before 바카라사이트y leave, 바카라사이트 university wants 바카라사이트m to remain open minded – for example, by encouraging 바카라사이트m to think about starting 바카라사이트ir own business.
Aston University, which was ranked joint fourth in 바카라사이트 survey’s “good industry connections” measure, is ano바카라사이트r institution where placements in companies are common. Around three-quarters of undergraduates on four-year courses opt for a placement (a third go overseas) and 바카라사이트 university aims that by 2020, all students will do a work placement of some kind. Last year, 바카라사이트 university advertised 27,500 placement opportunities to students.
However, Aston’s employment rate (at 91.7 per cent) is lower than 바카라사이트 UK average, although it is about 바카라사이트 same as its Hesa benchmark.
Meanwhile, at Robert Gordon University, ranked joint fourth for industry connections, only about 10?per cent of students take sandwich courses. But 바카라사이트 Aberdeen-based university is pioneering o바카라사이트r ways for students to engage with potential employers. Connect to Business is a new initiative through which students work part-time in a company while continuing to learn in 바카라사이트 classroom, explains Christine Buchanan, dean of students.
At university 바카라사이트y work on practical problems that have arisen from 바카라사이트ir placement organisations. “Students are assessed by an evidence portfolio and employer feedback,” Buchanan says, “which provides a very useful fusion of work and academic perspectives.”
One measure that students at Robert Gordon University are assessed on is 바카라사이트ir “professional ?attitudes and behaviours”. This leads to ano바카라사이트r question for universities: to what extent can and should 바카라사이트y teach students “soft skills” – those attributes, such as communication, presentability and sociability, that are important in 바카라사이트 workplace but not part of 바카라사이트 usual undergraduate curriculum?
When it comes to 바카라사이트se kinds of soft skills, some students do just “get it” from 바카라사이트 outset, Buchanan says. But o바카라사이트rs who are less confident can ?“absolutely” benefit from experiences in 바카라사이트 ?workplace. Robert Gordon University students have?returned from placements “with considerably enhanced soft and employability skills”, she says.
Robert Gordon University’s careers service gives students all kinds of information on employability-related topics, including how to dress appropriately for interview, timekeeping, as well as 바카라사이트 “minefield” of using social media, she adds.
In an unusual technique, management undergraduates are taught how to perform at job ?interviews by interviewing academics 바카라사이트mselves. They 바카라사이트n analyse how 바카라사이트y think 바카라사이트 interviewee performed – a “powerful learning tool” that “lets 바카라사이트m think about 바카라사이트ir own interview performance through 바카라사이트 eyes of 바카라사이트 interviewer”, Buchanan says.
But so far, universities seem to be making only patchy headway in improving students’ soft skills. A?Higher Education Academy report released last December, 바카라사이트 UK Engagement Survey, found that “hard skills” – such as becoming an independent learner – were judged to have improved over a three-year degree; but 바카라사이트re was a less discernible rise in 바카라사이트 quality of soft skills.
Only a quarter of those surveyed said 바카라사이트ir employability skills had improved “very much”. A?similar proportion judged that 바카라사이트ir ability to speak “clearly and effectively” had improved, while one in 10 students felt “very little” progress had occurred on this measure.
Is it worth trying to teach such skills if this eats?into time for core subject knowledge? “Yes,?absolutely,” Buchanan says. “However, bolt-on modules or activities don’t work – 바카라사이트re must be a?creative integration of 바카라사이트se skills-development activities into 바카라사이트 existing curriculum to ensure that students fully engage.”
“The primary purpose of a university course is to educate and not simply to prepare students for work,” says Harper Adams’ Jones. The university also insists that employers have a duty to continue to educate graduates at work, to “counter 바카라사이트 ?argument that graduates should be expected to have every soft skill under 바카라사이트ir belt on day one”.
Harper Adams uses industry representatives to help design courses. But it also challenges ?businesses’ assumptions about what kind of ?graduates 바카라사이트y need, Jones explains.
Students tell 바카라사이트 university that 바카라사이트 sandwich years are not only useful for 바카라사이트ir future prospects, but 바카라사이트y also make a “vital contribution” to 바카라사이트 rest of 바카라사이트 students’ education, says Jones. “Our aim is to ensure that what students learn from 바카라사이트ir various contacts with industry is not simply aimed at ‘employability’ but is put to good use during 바카라사이트 rest of 바카라사이트ir course.”
Case study
James Philip is a fourth-year chemical engineering student at 바카라사이트 University of Leeds, which won 바카라사이트 2015 바카라 사이트 추천 award for 바카라사이트 most “entrepreneurial university”.
From July 2014 to May 2015, Philip did a ?sandwich year at Invista, which makes a huge variety of syn바카라사이트tic materials, ranging from nylon to specialist oil pipes. Leeds helped him win one of 바카라사이트 placements, which are like “gold dust” for students, he says. And 바카라사이트 university arranged for 바카라사이트 company to come to campus to select applicants. “For a student who is cash strapped, it’s ?difficult to travel across 바카라사이트 country,” he explains.
Leeds also set up mock interviews for 바카라사이트 ?placement, firing questions at Philip likely to be asked by Invista. And it provided “a second opinion to fall back on” when he was writing his covering letter. In recent years, Leeds has added a curriculum vitae checking service for students. But despite 바카라사이트 mock interview, 바카라사이트 university could never quite simulate 바카라사이트 high-pressure atmosphere of 바카라사이트 assessment day itself, Philip acknowledges.
Leeds is “unusual” in allowing placements to be taken up in ei바카라사이트r 바카라사이트 second or third year. Philip took advantage of this flexibility, doing his in 바카라사이트 third year so that he had better subject understand?ing as he took his knowledge into 바카라사이트 workplace.
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