{"id":2318,"date":"2015-12-11T13:38:35","date_gmt":"2015-12-11T13:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=2318"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:50:01","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:50:01","slug":"employability-and-uk-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2015\/12\/11\/employability-and-uk-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Employability and UK students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heacademy.ac.uk\/sites\/default\/files\/ukes_2015.pdf\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-family: Calibri\">Higher Education Academy annual engagement survey<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\"> asks students how they have developed. How much effort they put into study, how much support they received and what skills they developed. This includes such factors as becoming an independent learner.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">It is based on 24 institutions and over 24,000 students. It found employability skills relatively low<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">Hepi also published \u00a0<\/span><em><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/HEPI-Employability\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Employability: Degrees of Value<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000\">,<\/span><\/span><\/em><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">\u00a0an occasional\u00a0 paper calling for higher education to improve graduate employability.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">Research by the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/attachment_data\/file\/474251\/BIS-15-464-employer-graduate-recruitment.pdf\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-family: Calibri\">UK government has tried to understand what employers want from graduates.<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">\u00a0 They also maintain the official <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/statistics\/graduate-labour-market-statistics-april-to-june-2015\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-family: Calibri\">Graduate Market statistics.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">For a different perspective from <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cipd.co.uk\/publicpolicy\/policy-reports\/overqualification-skills-mismatch-graduate-labour-market.aspx\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-family: Calibri\">CIPD see a recent report on over-qualification in the graduate jobs market.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">For a worldwide ranking of graduate employability see the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iu.qs.com\/qs-graduate-employability-rankings-year-2016-pilot\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-family: Calibri\">QS site<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\"> which also has details of its methodology.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Higher Education Academy annual engagement survey asks students how they have developed. How much effort they put into study, how much support they received and what skills they developed. This includes such factors as becoming an independent learner. It is based on 24 institutions and over 24,000 students. It found employability skills relatively low [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10,9],"tags":[236,254,93],"class_list":["post-2318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-management","category-labour-market-studies","tag-education","tag-employability","tag-united-kingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2319,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318\/revisions\/2319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}