Employability is a central issue for all Higher Educationinstitutions. This book outlines the key issues and reports thefindings of a large-scale research project examining comparativeemployability skills in China and the UK. Case studies are alsoincluded from a wide rancge of sources.Enhancing students'employability is a critical concept for universities around theworld to grapple with, as it is how universities change and adaptto this challenge that will be one of the key drivers for thesector in the future. Universities that enhance the studentexperience and deliver career-ready, employable, graduates with abroad range of skills and competencies will be the universitiesthat succeed in the new environment.
目录:
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 Graduatesin the UK and China
6. Methodology
7. Results A: The Marketing Discipline and Employability
8. Results B: The Finance/Accounting Discipline andEmployability
9. Results C: The Human Resources Discipline andEmployability
Section C: Case Studies of Employability Enhancement acrossDisciplines and Continents
10. Employability Led Course Design
11. Knowledge Transfer in Higher Education
12. Collaborative Development of an Online Module ConcerningEmployability and Entrepreneurship
13. Using Summer Schools to Develop the Employability of PhDStudents
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