Here you can find links to the presentations given at our national symposium, ‘Embedding Employability in English and the Wider Arts and Humanities’, plus links to other useful resources drawn on by the project team.

 

Conference Resources

Employability: the view from the Higher Education Academy

• 'Employability in a global labour market: ensuring future proof graduates’Maureen Tibby (HEA Academic Lead – Employability)

• 'Tailor Made, Not Off the Rack: Employability and English Studies'Dr Nicole King (HEA UK Discipline Lead for English Literature, English Language and Creative Writing)

Case studies: Approaches to embedding employability in an Arts curriculum

• Case study I: ‘Externality Projects for English students: Heritage, Literature, Culture, Writing’, Professor Gweno Williams (York St John University)

• Case study II: ‘Reading Employability, Writing Lives’, Dr Anna Hunter (UCLAN)

• Case study III: Partnership and reflection: Embedding Employability in English, Dr Jo Robinson and placement students (University of Nottingham)

Conclusions and reflections for the wider sector:

• Professor Ian Pirie (Assistant Principal Learning and Development, University of Edinburgh)

Useful Weblinks

• Aiming University Learning@Work Project , particularly their Work Related Learning Model

• Day, Helen (2010) Work-Related Learning in English: A Good Practice Guide, Higher Education Academy English Subject Centre Report Series Number 20 

• Day, Helen and Ceth (2009) Ceth Employability Framework© Guidance   Notes Available with other useful resources at the Embedding Employability in Education: Conference resources site.

Model Placement Documentation

• Sample Role profile 1

• Sample role profile 2

• Sample confirmation agreement

• Sample letter of expectation/health and safety agreement

• Sample risk assessment form

• Pre-placement skills audit

Other Resources

• High Fliers Graduate Market Report 2014