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A real leveller: Improving a year-long, team-based project for undergraduates and professional industry mentors during lockdown

Teaching Matters Student Employment

The Design Agency is all about the reality of the world of work so we needed to echo what was happening externally within the design industry. Parallels with industry were plentiful, which allowed us to continue to promote the Design Agency scheme at Open Days as producing graduates who are 100% employable. It’s a real leveller.

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Universities facing an adapt-or-die moment need to wake up

University Business

However, forward-thinking institutions can boost graduate employability and underscore their contemporary worth by embedding industry-recognized professional certifications within their curricula. Left unchecked, students’ waning confidence threatens universities’ bottom lines.

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A recap of the 2023-24 MIT Career Exploration Series

CAPD

The CAPD Employer Relations team worked with employers to organize career exploration events. As a part of the Employer Relations team’s events, 434 individual student-employer coffee chats were held with 29 employers during fall 2023 and IAP 2024.

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Promoting equity and employability using live briefs

SRHE

by Lucy Cokes ‘Live briefs’ are used in Higher Education programmes, and I suggest that they can help promote equity and employability if they are used in very specific ways. The use of live briefs takes place not only in the creative industries, but also across more practical or core subjects in HE.

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How the pandemic has changed graduate recruitment: Preparing students for a changed & changing landscape

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Image credit: Christina Morello Lucy Everett, Employer Engagement manager at the Careers Service, offers an overview of how the COVID-19 pandemic has utterly transformed the relationship between students, employers, and careers services. How have these stakeholders responded to the rise of virtual recruitment?

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Musical Pathways

Teaching Matters Student Employment

In the case of Music, though, students usually identify very strongly with their specialism and expect it to remain central to their lives. And indeed, a profession in the music industry could mean a lot of different things, with many ‘ways in’ and no obvious, prescribed graduate career path.

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Mentoring groups for success – Top tips from SACHA coaches

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Sophie is also an accomplished Waste Manager. She has project managed new waste strategies for the automotive industry, contracted and implemented waste management contracts for the University of Edinburgh, and benchmarked and conducted waste management gap analysis for many private and public organisations.