Understanding how to ‘embed’ employability within higher education (HE) learning environments is a key concern for teaching practitioners but also other stakeholders including learners and their families, careers and employability staff and employers.
Focusing on employability aligns with London Metropolitan’s strategic and pedagogic emphasis on social justice, widening opportunities and ambitions across our diverse student body. Indeed, London Met’s Education for Social Justice Framework has received commendation as being “at the heart of its mission” as an institution.
This blogpost reports a three phase project conducted in our School of Social Science and Professions (SSSP) linked to embedding employability. This research project was guided by both Advance HE's embedding employability framework and also tools derived from our own Careers Education Framework. Included here are links to audit survey and toolkit resources for colleagues engaged in employability related work at their own institutions.
Our Embedding Employability Project Team includes: Dom Conroy (Teaching Practitioner), Neelam Thapar (Head of Careers and Employability), Kelly Cooper (Dean of School), Vanessa Airth (Head of Work-Based Learning, Policy and Practice) and Brian Tutt (Head of Student Experience and Academic Outcomes).
