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Graduate skills

Graduate skills. Wales Higher Education STEM Celebration event Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff June 13 th 2012. Some students …. Graduate skills. Self management Team working Business and customer awareness Problem solving Communication and literacy Application of numeracy

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Graduate skills

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  1. Graduate skills Wales Higher Education STEM Celebration event Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff June 13th 2012

  2. Some students ….

  3. Graduate skills • Self management • Team working • Business and customer awareness • Problem solving • Communication and literacy • Application of numeracy • Application of information technolgy • Positive attitude • Entrepreneurship/enterprise (CBI/UUK Futurefit, 2009)

  4. Little and Harvey, 2006 • Little research on the impact of work experience on learning, except skills acquisition and gaining entry to work • Found that work experience did have positive impact on learning in HE – especially communication skills, networking, problem-solving, personal organisation, meeting deadlines, and • Learning from work placement provided a vehicle for the application of theories …

  5. Real Prospects, 2011 • Real Prospects, survey of graduates views of their employer, found: • 22 per cent had worked for their employer before they applied to their current job, of these, • 45 per cent had been on work experience (or internship) and • 27 per cent had been on placement as part of their degree • 28 per cent had been employed in a casualrole

  6. Different subject trajectories

  7. Three quarters would like to - but 38% cannot Financial reasons act as barrier but not socio-economic background Women more likely to say that they could not afford to Students who had not done work placements in course were more likely to say they planned to do unpaid/internship after graduation Subject and institution also affect this. Graduate internship/unpaid work experience

  8. What are we doing with Futuretrack data? • Seeking to improve practice in career information, advice and guidance for students and graduates • Combining quantitative with qualitative assessments • Identifying trends and patterns of inequality of opportunity • Influencing policy-making • Hoping to continue it!

  9. Key information sets 2012 The destinations of graduates six months after completing their course – comprising working, studying, working and studying, unemployed and not available for work. Of those in employment, the proportion in managerial/professionaljobs six months after graduation.

  10. What are we doing with the KIS data? • Pros • Informing prospective student choice • Capturing trends and changes • Demonstrating HE as positive investment • Improving courses • Making institutions responsive to their market Cons • Creating ‘league tables’ and intra- institutional competitiveness • Spurious expectations of subject disciplines • Fuelling media ‘hype’ about negative findings • Making HE learning overly instrumental • Frightening prospective students

  11. Continuing challenge Can we … • Provide better support to students to articulate their learning from placement experience • Acknowledge of tensions between goals of placement and curriculum • Support entrepreneurship/self employment • Do more to motivate/engage students • Plan for unintended consequences…

  12. Thank you Further information: DLHE data summarised in http://www.hecsu.ac.uk/current_projects_what_do_graduates_do.htm Futuretrack reports at http://www.hecsu.ac.uk/current_projects_futuretrack.htm Contact Jane Artess on: j.artess@prospects.ac.uk www.hecsu.ac.uk

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