Student employability. Most of our students will have an opportunity to gain work-related experience. The number and profile of our region’s employers, many of which are small or micro business, affects the availability and take-up of these opportunities. The geography of our region and work and family commitments can also make engaging with these opportunities difficult for our students. We also want our students to be global citizens. We believe that this enhances their employability and enriches their lives. There are already many international dimensions to the university in research, learning and teaching and knowledge exchange, including opportunities in some programme for international work placement. We want to build on these, to embed internationalisation more generally across the university partnership. A cross-region FE group has developed a regional strategy to offer meaningful work experience for all students. The group will be seeking to build into the strategy a partnership approach to on-course work experience and post-course success by linking with initiatives such as Community Jobs Scotland, the Employability Fund and Scotland’s Employers’ Recruitment Incentive. The implementation of this strategy will complement the regional Essential Skills policy work through which student employability skills, amongst others, will be developed. The region performs well in terms of post-course destination with 94.8% of full-time FE leavers in a positive destination 3-6 months after qualifying, compared to 95% nationally (College Leavers Destination survey 2016/17). Of these, 69% go on to further study. The partnership is committed to further improvement. Some partners for instance, are working to embed career development skills in full time provision. These developments will be evaluated and will inform regional approaches to the development of employability skills in subsequent years. A strand of the Scottish Governments Learner Journey Review is improved access to careers guidance and preparing students for successful long-term careers. The university’s careers and employability centre has been reviewing how they engage with students and promote contemporary messages that challenge them to take action with their career development. Key messages have been developed around careers development as an opportunity to look optimistically and creatively at the future and not as a problem to be solved, focusing on developing resilience and importance of building networks. The centre is working alongside the university’s Learning and Teaching Academy to integrate graduate attributes into the lives of students and staff. We are moving towards a model of greater delivery through the curriculum using the example of the recently delivered career programme to computing and accounting students including a self-analysis focusing on skills awareness.
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Sources: Regional Tertiary Outcome Agreement
Student employability. Most of our students will have an opportunity to gain work-related experience. The number and profile of our region’s employers, many of which are small or micro business, affects the availability and take-up of these opportunities. The geography of our region and work and family commitments can also make engaging with these opportunities difficult for our students. We also want our students to be global citizens. We believe that this enhances their employability and enriches their lives. There are already many international dimensions to the university in research, learning and teaching and knowledge exchange, including opportunities in some programme for international work placement. We want to build on these, to embed internationalisation more generally across the university partnership. A cross-region FE regional strategy group has developed been established to establish a baseline of work experiences embedded in current FE provision and to develop a regional strategy approach to offer developing meaningful work experience for all students. The group will be seeking to build into the strategy a regional strategy, a partnership approach to on-course work experience and post-course success by linking with initiatives such as Community Jobs Scotland, the Employability Fund and Scotland’s Employers’ Recruitment Incentive. The implementation university careers and employability centre and cross-partnership practitioner group continue to provide a wealth of this strategy will complement the regional Essential Skills policy work through which student resources to assist students and graduates enhance their employability skills. Following extensive consultation with staff, amongst othersstudents and employers, the university has adopted a revised set of graduate attributes. The five attributes are: · Academic skills · self-management · Social awareness · Communication · Interpersonal skills. These attributes are intentionally broad in order that they are flexible and applicable to all subject areas, employers and levels of the curriculum. Rather than presenting an absolute and definitive list of skills and attributes, students and staff are encouraged to reflect on these five attributes and to contextualise them to their own circumstances. A three-year implementation plan has been approved and will be developedtaken forward in 2018-19. A measure of employability for HE students is the Destination of Leavers from Higher Education survey (DLHE) and the HESA PI derived from it – Employment Indicator. This PI is also the source for the ROA employability national measures. It should be noted that 2016-17 graduates will be the last cohort to complete the DLHE. The employment indicator from this final survey is due to be published in July 2018. Graduates from 2018 onwards will take part in the new Graduate Outcomes survey. This survey however has a different timeframe for surveying graduates, methodology and questions compared to the DLHE, which is likely to require new baselines and review/revision of targets for any future national measure of employability. For FE students, a regional approach will be taken to develop student employability, for all, including but not restricted to, those with a disability, through collaborative initiatives developing core/essential skills and through enhancement of work experience. The region performs well in terms of post-course destination with 94.894% of full-time FE leavers in a positive destination 3-6 months after qualifying, compared to 9594.9% nationally (College Leavers Destination survey 2016/172015-16). Of theseHowever, 69% go on to further study. The the partnership is committed to further improvement. Some partners To address issues of under-employment in the region, with young people often accessing part- time or seasonal low-skilled jobs, we are committed to developing vocational pathways that offer training for instancesectors with predicted employment opportunities, are working to embed career development skills in full time provision. These developments will be evaluated and will inform regional approaches to the development of employability skills in subsequent years. A strand of the Scottish Governments Learner Journey Review is improved either through sector growth or turn-over, accompanied by on-going training that provides access to careers guidance and preparing students for successful long-term careers. The university’s careers and employability centre has been reviewing how they engage with students and promote contemporary messages that challenge them to take action with their career development. Key messages have been developed around careers development as an opportunity to look optimistically and creatively at the future and not as a problem to be solved, focusing on developing resilience and importance of building networks. The centre is working alongside the university’s Learning and Teaching Academy to integrate graduate attributes into the lives of students and staff. We are moving towards a model of greater delivery through the curriculum using the example of the recently delivered career programme to computing and accounting students including a self-analysis focusing on skills awarenessadvanced level study.
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Sources: Regional Outcome Agreement