An Enquiry Based Approach to
Employability
Joan Cartledge – Development & Learning Consultant
Sarah Jeffries – Personal Skills Award Manager
Enquiry Based Learning
• Active participants in own learning
• Equipped with tools to learn
• Developing Transferable Skills
• Fostering learner independence
• Promote philosophy of lifelong learning
Enquiry Based Employability
• Participation in work based and voluntary activities
• Skills Development through activities
• Self Reflection - >>Progress>>
• Focus on process of ongoing professional development
>>Progress>>
Modular Pathway
Take three accredited skills modules
The Personal Skills Award
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Activity Pathway
Participation in extra-curricular activities
The Personal Skills Award
1) Modular Pathway
Employability and Professional Development Skills (compulsory module)
• 2 lectures focusing on Employability and Reflective Practice
• Practical Engagement in work or voluntary activity
• Reflection on skills development using >>Progress>>
• Assignment requires both use of reflective cycles and ability to represent skills developed to an graduate employer.
The Personal Skills Award
2) Activity Pathway
• Recognition of work based and voluntary activities
• Participation in Employability Skills Workshop
• Reflection on skills developed through activities using >>Progress>>
• Successful completion of competency based application process
Peer Assisted Study Sessions (PASS)
• Developmental model of peer support• Student to student support scheme• Weekly sessions facilitated by trained student leaders • PASS offers a safe place to help students:
• Adjust quickly to University life• Improve their study habits• Enhance their understanding through collaborative learning• Enhance their awareness of course direction and expectations
• Content is based on course materials and PASS leaders are engaged in sharing their experience and facilitating discussions
PASS is successful because it is discipline-owned and student-led.
Honey Pot Award
• Scheme to provide financial support for low or unpaid work experience placements.
• Application and Interview process.• Report • Reflection on Employability Skills developed• Case Study
ADEPT
• Service developed and delivered by Doctoral Researchers (DR’s)
• Focus on career development
• Self and skills development key feature
• Reflection on learning on real life work experience context
SPEED
• Programme moves students beyond enquiry based learning to ‘extreme learning’.
• Has been run in 14 HE institutions• Entrepreneurial learning experience• Participants identify a business opportunity• Participants negotiate their own support i.e. mentors,
advice and training• Participants set up their own business• Participants learn through experience and reflection
on their experience
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