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Graduate Employability Conference
Wednesday 3rd March 2010
QEII Conference Centre, Westminster, London, SW1
Announcement: Rt Hon
David Lammy MP, Minister for Higher Education and Intellectual Property,
Dept. of BIS confirms to speak at Graduate Employability
Graduates in the news
As we all know, graduate employability
has been a hot topic in 2009 and it looks like it will continue to be
well into 2010. With Mandelson's recent announcement and the continuing
economic difficulties, this is a subject that is here to stay.
See what the media are saying
about it
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New
speakers confirmed, check speaker page for updates
Higher fees and more published
data on student destinations and employability will challenge
universities and HE colleges to raise their game; to build
and protect the reputation of their courses and student experience.
The publication of statistics
on career destinations will affect student choice of
institutions, department and courses.
Employability skills, often
beyond the curriculum of academic and technical achievement, are increasingly
a deciding factor matching students to jobs. At a time of downturn
and international competition in the graduate market, students
demand more from higher education, employers demand more from students
and universities need to build the employability skills of students
into their offer.
With some universities and
colleges aiming to have 60% of their students graduating with work experience,
the competition will be strong.
Is
your institution prepared?
This conference will set out,
for university and college management, how departments and courses can
grow and how businesses can access and gain from talented student placements,
internships and student engagement.
Also, how universities can
develop and increase capacity to find and manage work experience at
foundation, undergraduate, postgraduate and MBA levels. How to
build employable skills into courses, teaching and learning techniques,
and extra-curricular life.
For further information contact
Suzannah Povey on 020 7324 4361,
e-mail suzannah.povey@neilstewartassociates.co.uk
PURPOSE OF THE CONFERENCE
This one day conference will:
- Look at enhancing the value of students to employers - the
value of work-based learning to improve student induction
procedures for work and work placements
- Explore the links between developing students' entrepreneurial
capabilities and their employability
- Hear how universities and colleges are developing tailored training
and development
- The importance of professional support to vulnerable groups using
the £25 million Economic Challenge Investment Fund (ECIF)
- Understand how government, universities and colleges can meet the
needs, target training and development, and prepare graduates to meet
the needs of local and regional SMEs as well as large multi-national
companies
- Examine the use of a University Personal Development Planning
System and pre-placement workshops designed to develop students'
employability skills
- Hear where the higher level skills gaps are now and in the future
and what universities and colleges need to do now to respond effectively
- Discuss developing employability skills through employers' engagement
in foundation degrees
- Highlight the opportunities of enhancing employability through
work-based assessment - examine the use of problem-based
assessment, applied in a workplace setting, to enhance students' employability
- Map out employability enhancement for students approachinf
a work experience year
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