employability resources and publications
Higher Education Academy Resources
The Learning and Employability series is a range of guides intended for
senior managers and staff in higher education institutions who are
reviewing or developing strategies and practice for the enhancement of
student employability. The 2 series of the Learning and Employablity guides are available as downloadable PDF documents. The series editor is Mantz Yorke.
Learning and Employability Series 1
Employability in higher education: what it is, what it is not
Mantz Yorke
Employability: judging and communicating achievements
Peter Knight and Mantz Yorke
Embedding employability into the curriculum
Peter Knight and Mantz Yorke
Entrepreneurship and higher education: an employability perspective
Neil Moreland
Employability and Work-based Learning
Brenda Little and ESECT colleagues
Pedagogy for employability
The Pedagogy and Employability Group
For more information and to download the pdfs for series 1: http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/resources/detail/ourwork/employability/Learning_and_employability_series_1
Learning and Employability Series 2
Work-related learning in higher education
Neil Moreland
Employability and doctoral research postgraduates
Janet Metcalfe and Alexandra Gray
Part-time students and employability
Brenda Little
Ethics and employability
Simon Robinson
Career development learning and employability
Tony Watts
Widening Participation and employability
Rob Jones and Liz Thomas
Personal development planning and employability
For more information and to download the pdfs for series 2: http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/resources/detail/ourwork/employability/Learning_and_employability_series_2
Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Services (AGCAS)
The Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Services (AGCAS) is the professional association of careers professionals in Higher Education. The association was established in 1967 and is a registered charity.
www.agcas.org.uk
Association of Graduate Recruiters (AGR)
Founded in 1968, AGR is an independent, not-for-profit organisation dedicated to supporting employers in all aspects of graduate recruitment.
www.agr.org.uk
Careers Research and Advisory Centre (CRAC), 2002, Insightplus
Insightplus™ is an accreditation programme which intends to recognise the learning that students in schools and colleges gain from part-time jobs and voluntary work. Insightplus™ responds to widespread employer concern that many school leavers are unable to identify and evidence their employability skills.
www.insightplus.co.uk
Centre for Higher Education Practice, Open University, 1998, Bridging the Gap
"Bridging the Gap" was a year-long study, based in the Centre for Higher Education Practice at the Open University, and funded by the Department for Education and Employment (DfEE) Innovations Fund.
www.innovations.ac.uk/btg/projects/index.htm
Centre for Recording Achievement (CRA)
The Centre for Recording Achievement (CRA) is a national network organisation and a registered educational charity. It seeks to ‘promote the awareness of recording achievement and action planning processes as an important element in improving learning and progression throughout the world of education, training and employment’.
CRA is an Associate Centre of the Higher Education Academy and offers a range of services to higher education institutions and their communities aimed at supporting the implementation of Progress Files, Personal Development Planning and e-portfolios.
www.recordingachievement.org
Case studies on the CRA website
www.recordingachievement.org/higher-education/case-studies/category/higher-education-case-studies/1.html
Council for Industry and Higher Education (CIHE)
Link to CIHE's publications page with various listings of employability related publications which can either be downloaded or ordered.
www.cihe.co.uk/category/knowledge/publications/
dti, Knowledge Transfer Partnerships
Knowledge Transfer Partnerships are Government funded to enable UK businesses to benefit from the wide range of expertise available in the UK's 'Knowledge Base' - higher education institutions, further education colleges, and private and public sector research organisations and institutes. Knowledge Transfer Partnerships aim to work with Research Organisations, Higher Education Institutions, Further Education Colleges, graduates and companies.
Empowering the Artist (ETA)
Empowering the Artist (ETA) is an art development and production agency, established in 1998 and based in the south east of England. It works with fine and applied artists providing both practical and critical support through a range of activities and resources.
www.eta-art.co.uk/
Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC)
www.eoc.org.uk
Graduates for Growth
The Graduates for Growth forum was devised and developed by the Small Business Centre at the University of Durham Business School in the 1980s. Over the years it has involved the universities of the North East working collaboratively and individually to address the policy challenges and practical aspects of: ensuring the region's university students are adequately equipped with skills that make them employable in a global economy; promoting the recruitment of graduates from the region's universities in local businesses across the North East; securing the retention of graduates in the local economy either by recruitment into local companies or by helping them set up in business.
The forum comprises the North East region's six universities together with a number of organisations whose objective is to improve the local economy through the development of graduate opportunities, and the retention of their skills within the region.
http://www.graduatesforgrowth.org.uk/about/index.htm
International Association for the Exchange of Students for Technical Experience (IAESTE)
IAESTE aims to: provide students in Higher Education with technical experience relevant to their studies; offer employers well-qualified and motivated trainees and be a source of cultural enrichment for trainees and their host communities.
www.iaeste.org
The Art of Getting Started: Graduate skills in a fragmented labour market
La Valle I, O’Regan S, Jackson C
Report 364, Institute for Employment Studies, January 2000
ISBN: 978-1-85184-294-0, pp. xiv+102
PDF Download only: £8.00
www.employment-studies.co.uk/pubs/report.php?id=364
Mooney, T., 9 April 2002, 'Work it out', Guardian Unlimited
Does work experience help graduates when it comes to securing a job? Tony Mooney finds out.
education.guardian.co.uk/students/story/
The National Council for Work Experience (NWCE)
The Council has been running for over 5 years. It joined with Graduate Prospects in 2002 to help deliver the core strategy of helping all students and graduates find suitable careers and employment. The aim of the NCWE website is to provide you with all you need to know about 'work experience' and 'work-related learning'.
Work-experience.org is home to the National Council for Work Experience, Connect (formerly the National Work Experience Bank), and Prospects Work Experience magazine.
www.work-experience.org
The Ability Based Curriculum (ABC) network
The ABC network was based at Oxford Brookes University and was one of the thirty four discipline networks set up by the Department for Education and Employment in 1996. It was a group of people with a common interest in developing key abilities, key skills, in higher education. The archive material is available at: http://www.brookes.ac.uk/services/ocsd/archive/abc/abchome.html
Placements Industry Network (PlaceNet)
PlaceNet is a forum for university placement officers and is a registered Charity dedicated to advance education of students in Higher Education and in particular but not exclusively by enhancing the organisation, management and provision of academic and quality vocational experience for such students.
www.placenet.org.uk/
ESRC Centre on Skills, Knowledge and Organisational Performance (SKOPE)
The Economic & Social Reseach Council (ESRC) Centre on Skills, Knowledge and Organisational Performance (SKOPE) commenced operations in October 1998 and started its second five-year research programme in October 2003. The aim of the centre is to examine the links between the acquisition o and use of skills and knowledge and performance (measured in a variety of ways).
www.skope.ox.ac.uk
Shell Step
Shell Step places undergraduates into small and medium sized companies and community organisations to undertake a specific business or technical projects driven by the needs of the host business, enabling them to develop their business through the recruitment of bright, intelligent and talented individuals.
www.step.org.uk
Woodcock, B. 2003, Careers Advisory Service, University of Kent at Canterbury.
Summary of PDP development activity undertaken in 2003. www.kent.ac.uk/careers/pdp.htm