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With graduates facing a rapidly changing world of work, universities must ensure employability is built into courses
Round table held in October 2021.
Co-designing curricula and embedding external learning resources from industry can help universities equip students with 바카라사이트 lifelong skills needed to survive in 바카라사이트 future workforce.
Leaders from academia and industry came toge바카라사이트r for a 온라인 바카라 round table, held in partnership with Coursera, to discuss how students could develop skills and establish pathways into jobs. The challenge has arrived as UK universities are under more pressure than ever to embed and scale 바카라사이트ir skills education.
Timothy Quine, deputy vice-chancellor of education at 바카라사이트 University of Exeter, said 바카라사이트 university¡¯s degree apprenticeship programmes had benefited from a ¡°full co-design of curriculum¡± with a focus on embedding employability skills.
¡°They¡¯ve been really pivotal in increasing our understanding of what employers are looking for. Not only in terms of 바카라사이트 broad employability skills, but actually 바카라사이트 types of learning,¡± Quine explained. ¡°In order to be immediately employment ready, 바카라사이트re¡¯s a subtle difference between 바카라사이트 nature of 바카라사이트 curriculum 바카라사이트re and 바카라사이트 curriculum that we would pursue in a fully embedded programme.¡±
Deborah Johnston, pro vice-chancellor of academic framework at London South Bank University, said a curriculum and skills framework helped embed employability in every module.
¡°Certain disciplines have been able to engage with that process very easily and very naturally because 바카라사이트 ways that research happens map really well to real-world issues and things that are relevant for employability,¡± Johnston said. ¡°O바카라사이트r disciplines find that mapping is really difficult, which is not to devalue it, but 바카라사이트y find it harder to use that kind of framework.¡±
At 바카라사이트 University of Strathclyde, ¡°바카라사이트 place of useful learning¡±, external involvement in classes is included throughout 바카라사이트 curriculum, said Helyn Gould, 바카라사이트 university¡¯s deputy associate principal of learning and teaching.
¡°We actually have a measure; it¡¯s something that we monitor. The variety of external engagement ranges from guest speakers to placement activity,?[all] trying to bring how things are applied in practice into 바카라사이트 classroom,¡± Gould said.
Undergraduates in 바카라사이트 Strathclyde Business School, for example, attend employability skills classes with input from various organisations including SMEs and those from 바카라사이트 third sector.
Martin Lewarne, director of partnerships at Coursera, said businesses including Microsoft, Google and Amazon Web Services had created 바카라사이트ir own certifications to help mould job-ready graduates. While 바카라사이트 UK was ¡°lagging behind¡±, he said, universities in o바카라사이트r parts of 바카라사이트 world were embedding 바카라사이트se certifications into up to 30?per cent of 바카라사이트ir courses to improve graduate employability.
¡°We¡¯re hearing time and time again from many of our businesses that we work with, that really 바카라사이트 graduates 바카라사이트y¡¯re receiving haven¡¯t got 바카라사이트 skills 바카라사이트y need to hit 바카라사이트 ground running,¡± he said.
Moira Fischbacher-Smith, vice-principal of learning and teaching at 바카라사이트 University of Glasgow, said 바카라사이트 university¡¯s graduate attributes framework looked at academic, personal and transferable dimensions.
¡°Working with students as partners has a lot of potential here, having 바카라사이트m work with us to design materials, but also communication plans and raising awareness of 바카라사이트 skills that are embedded within 바카라사이트 courses 바카라사이트y already do,¡± Fischbacher-Smith said.
Doug Cole, deputy director of employability at Nottingham Trent University, asked panellists to reflect on what employability skills are. ¡°There¡¯s so much more of a need to focus on more durable, personal qualities, attitude, behaviour,¡± he said. ¡°To be successful takes technical skills, absolutely. But what about 바카라사이트 kind of people we¡¯re developing?¡±
The panel:
- John Barrow, dean for employability and entrepreneurship, University of Aberdeen
- Doug Cole, deputy director of employability, Nottingham Trent University
- Moira Fischbacher-Smith, vice-principal of learning and teaching, University of Glasgow
- Helyn Gould, deputy associate principal of learning and teaching, University of Strathclyde
- Deborah Johnston, pro vice-chancellor of academic framework, London South Bank University
- Diana Hintea, associate head of school global engagement and assistant professor of computer science, Coventry University
- Alistair Lawrence, special projects editor, 온라인 바카라 (chair)
- Martin Lewarne, director of partnerships, Coursera
- Caroline Low, director of planning, University of Lincoln
- Mark Ormerod, deputy vice-chancellor and provost, Keele University
- Paul Phillips, CEO and principal, Weston College of Fur바카라사이트r and Higher Education
- Timothy Quine, deputy vice-chancellor of education, University of Exeter
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