Lowe, T. 2023. Embedding employability into the curriculum: five recommendations to improve widening participation students’ graduate employability . Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education. (26). https://doi.org/10.47408/jldhe.vi26.925
| Title | Embedding employability into the curriculum: five recommendations to improve widening participation students’ graduate employability |
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| Type | Journal article |
| Authors | Lowe, T. |
| Abstract | Ensuring students succeed during and beyond their degree, no matter their background, ethnicity, disability or demographic has been outlined in the mission of the English higher education regulator, the Office for Students (Office for Students, 2018). Additionally, there are endless strategies, agendas, research projects and discussions around improving Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) within universities, yet there is less literature relating to EDI activity relating to graduate employability. This paper argues that the areas where greater attention is required within EDI is the work of academics and careers support services, to enhance graduate outcomes, through the development of core employment and recruitment skills (Underwood, 2022), through embedding professional literacies into the curriculum. From making parallels with strategies to support academic literacies, this paper argues that certain employability development elements should be embedded into the core assessed curriculum of degrees, to support all students in developing their professional literacies. |
| Keywords | employability |
| equality, diversity & inclusion | |
| widening participation | |
| graduate outcomes | |
| Journal | Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education |
| Journal citation | (26) |
| ISSN | 1759-667X |
| Year | 2023 |
| Publisher | Association for Learning Development in Higher Education (ALDinHE) |
| Accepted author manuscript | File Access Level Open (open metadata and files) |
| Publisher's version | License CC BY 4.0 File Access Level Open (open metadata and files) |
| Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.47408/jldhe.vi26.925 |
| Publication dates | |
| Published | 28 Feb 2023 |