Employability is a central issue for all Higher Education
institutions. This book outlines the key issues and reports the
findings of a large-scale research project examining comparative
employability skills in China and the UK. Case studies are also
included from a wide rancge of sources.Enhancing students''
employability is a critical concept for universities around the
world to grapple with, as it is how universities change and adapt
to this challenge that will be one of the key drivers for the
sector in the future. Universities that enhance the student
experience and deliver career-ready, employable, graduates with a
broad range of skills and competencies will be the universities
that succeed in the new environment.
目錄:
1. Introduction
Section A: Employability - Theory and Practice
2. Education and Employability
3. Implementing Employability
4. Student Centred Approaches to Employability
5. Culture, Learning and Employability
Section B: Enhancing the Employability of Business School Graduates
in the UK and China
6. Methodology
7. Results A: The Marketing Discipline and Employability
8. Results B: The FinanceAccounting Discipline and
Employability
9. Results C: The Human Resources Discipline and
Employability
Section C: Case Studies of Employability Enhancement across
Disciplines and Continents
10. Employability Led Course Design
11. Knowledge Transfer in Higher Education
12. Collaborative Development of an Online Module Concerning
Employability and Entrepreneurship
13. Using Summer Schools to Develop the Employability of PhD
Students
14. Entrepreneurship for the Creative and Media Arts
15. Enhancing Employability Through Life-Wide Learning
16. Concluding Remarks References
List of tables and figures
Tables
Table 1.1 UK graduate unemployment
Table 2.1 Percentage of English domiciled students 1999-2006
Table 2.2 A list of employability attributes
Table 2.3 Components of the USEM model
Table 2.4 Classification of employability for graduates
Table 5.1 Psychic distance rating of countries from Australia
Table 5.2 Learning styles and student country
Table 5.3 Learning styles cross-tabulated against country
Table 5.4 Teaching aids and student country
Table 7.1 Marketing employability attributes, UK
Table 7.2 Marketing employability attributes, China
Table 8,1 Accounting employability attributes, UK
Table 8.2 Accountancy employability attributes, China
Table 9.1 HR employability attributes, UK
Table 9.2 HR employability attributes, China
Table 11,1 Comparative employability, LCFBIFT
Table 11.2 Employability questions, China
Table 14,1 Artdesign in Nottingham
Table 15,1 Careers education benchmark statement criteria
Figures
Figure 3.1 Integrative support structures
Figure 3.2 Employability skill and progression continuum
Figure 4.1 Partnership approach to employability
Figure 4.2 PebblePad @ University of Plymouth
Figure 4.3 Student employability orientation
Figure 5,1 Index of learning styles
Figure 6.1 Research methods
Figure 8.1 CIHE guide to employability -accountancy
Figure 10.1 Programme structure
Figure 14.1 The education system in China
Figure 15.1 Model of the pre-HE and undergraduatePGT
experience
Figure 15.2 DOTS