How can universities ensure that they are preparing their students for today's competitive job market? This book tackles the highly topical subject of graduate underemployment with insight and clarity. The authors argue the case for more sophisticated research into employability with passion and vision, discussing how employability-friendly curricula can be developed, even in subjects which have less obvious vocational relevance. The rapid growth of higher education over the past fifty years has seen expectations increase, and governments seeking to widen participation. There is now an...
How can universities ensure that they are preparing their students for today's competitive job market? This book tackles the highly topical subject...
Anyone with a responsibility for curriculum development or policy making who wants to advance learning and promote employability among their students will find this book absolutely essential reading.
Anyone with a responsibility for curriculum development or policy making who wants to advance learning and promote employability among their students ...
The new focus in learning is on developing the individual's capability. This work looks at this in the context of improving skills, lifelong learning and welfare-to-work. It debates the issues within the setting of institutional strategies, work-based learning, skills development and assessment.
The new focus in learning is on developing the individual's capability. This work looks at this in the context of improving skills, lifelong learning ...
Good project management is an essential element in the success of any project, large or small, whether in the commercial or the academic world. Educational development projects are a crucial part of the development of teaching and learning in higher education today. Be they small-scale, short-lived action research projects or large-scale collaborative projects run across several institutions, they all have in common a clear purpose, set deadlines and funding limits, together with guidelines and boundaries.
Good project management is an essential element in the success of any project, large or small, whether in the commercial or the academic world. Educat...
Faces up to the increasingly difficult problem of students dropping out from their courses. It presents findings of recent research into this issue and provides information that should help institutions understand and address the problem. The book clarifies definitions of non-completion, looks at what influences students to leave early, assesses the implications for the institution's performance and the cost to the public purse. This analysis is illustrated by examples of student experience, and highlights courses of action that may help to reduce the problem.
Faces up to the increasingly difficult problem of students dropping out from their courses. It presents findings of recent research into this issue an...
Faces up to the increasingly difficult problem of students dropping out from their courses. It presents findings of recent research into this issue and provides information that should help institutions understand and address the problem. The book clarifies definitions of non-completion, looks at what influences students to leave early, assesses the implications for the institution's performance and the cost to the public purse. This analysis is illustrated by examples of student experience, and highlights courses of action that may help to reduce the problem.
Faces up to the increasingly difficult problem of students dropping out from their courses. It presents findings of recent research into this issue an...
The new focus in learning is on developing the individual's capability. This work looks at this in the context of improving skills, lifelong learning and welfare-to-work. It debates the issues within the setting of institutional strategies, work-based learning, skills development and assessment.
The new focus in learning is on developing the individual's capability. This work looks at this in the context of improving skills, lifelong learning ...
A lot hangs on the summative grades that students are given. A good degree opens doors which otherwise might remain closed. Yet, as higher education is now a mass rather than an elite system, what is expected of its graduates is different from the expectations of previous generations. Students are expected not only to be able to demonstrate high standards of academic achievement, but also a variety of capabilities that have at different times been given labels such as 'generic skills' and 'transferable skills'. These abilities are difficult to grade for a variety of reasons and some...
A lot hangs on the summative grades that students are given. A good degree opens doors which otherwise might remain closed. Yet, as higher educatio...
Programmes in higher education tend to focus attention on the student's first year (because of concerns about student transition and retention) and on their final year (because of student exiting for their future careers). The middle year(s) of programmes receive relatively little attention which can often lead to a slump in student development at a crucial point in their studies. Stepping up to the Second Year at University provides practical advice that can be implemented by staff throughout higher education institutions. Rather than providing a set of prescriptions to be...
Programmes in higher education tend to focus attention on the student's first year (because of concerns about student transition and retention) and...
Programmes in higher education tend to focus attention on the student's first year (because of concerns about student transition and retention) and on their final year (because of student exiting for their future careers). The middle year(s) of programmes receive relatively little attention which can often lead to a slump in student development at a crucial point in their studies. Stepping up to the Second Year at University provides practical advice that can be implemented by staff throughout higher education institutions. Rather than providing a set of prescriptions to be...
Programmes in higher education tend to focus attention on the student's first year (because of concerns about student transition and retention) and...
