By Peter Knight
ISBN-10: 0415303427
ISBN-13: 9780415303422
ISBN-10: 0415303435
ISBN-13: 9780415303439
This publication tackles the hugely topical topic of graduate underemployment with perception and readability. The authors argue the case for extra refined learn into employability with ardour and imaginative and prescient, discussing how employability-friendly curricula may be built, even in matters that have much less visible vocational relevance.
The speedy progress of upper schooling over the last fifty years has noticeable expectancies raise, and governments trying to widen participation. there's now an pressing want for the govt. and better schooling associations to deal with the difficulty of graduate employability. The authors of this well timed e-book motivate a pro-active stance, delivering a ground-breaking version that may be simply applied in associations to make inexpensive, high-gain advancements to scholars' employability. themes coated include:
* The problem of employability
* The examine and careers of English graduates
* The enhancement of practice
* Assessing employability
* The Skills Plus project.
Based on a suite of over two hundred in-depth interviews with fresh graduates, this e-book kinds a distinct account of the meanings of employability within the workplace.
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