Employability statements

This request aims to help students entering higher education in 2011-12 make informed choices about institutions and the support available to them to enhance their employability.

• Full details of the request for employability statements 

Resources

The online resources listed below give an indication of relevant material, and can be used by universities and colleges when they are putting together their statements. The list is not definitive.

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)

Organisations which may also have useful resources on employability

• ASET
• Association of Graduate Recruiters
• Centres for Excellence in Teaching and Learning
  • The Centre for Employability Through the Humanities, University of Central Lancashire
  • Embedding, Enhancing and Integrating Employability, Sheffield Hallam university
• CRAC - Career Development Organisation
• Centre for Recording Achievement
• Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Services
• Graduate Prospects
• Higher Education Academy
• Higher Education Careers Services Unit
• National Council for Work Experience
• Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education
• VITAE

Sector impact assessment

In requesting employability statements, we have undertaken a formal assessment of their impact on the HE sector in terms of regulatory burden, equality and diversity, and sustainable development.

Sector impact assessment of employability statements

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Page last updated 6 January 2012