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> Widening Definitions of 'Employability': Unpaid Work, Critical Citizenship
> and Cultural Studies
>
> A day workshop hosted by the Department of Media and Cultural Studies,
> Liverpool John Moores University, June 25 2003
>
> "Employability' has become a buzz word in government, business and higher
> education circles. The term is usually used to suggest that universities
> should ensure that their graduates have the skills to be immediately
> productive in the paid workforce. However, discussions of employability
> have rarely considered the other kinds of work - unpaid work - that
> graduates do - as volunteers; as activists or campaigners; as creative
> artists; as carers for friends and family.
>
> The aim of this day workshop is to share ideas about whether - and how -
> higher education should better prepare its graduates for this kind of
> unpaid community, voluntary, caring and creative work. Can and should
> cultural studies graduates, in particular, be educated for citizenship as
> well as paid work?
>
> The workshop will provide an opportunity to discuss the links between
> unpaid work and education, and particularly research conducted at JMU on
> this link in the lives of media and cultural studies graduates, funded via
> the Cultural Studies Teaching and Learning Fund by the LTSN subject
> network.
>
> Topics for discussion on the day will include:
> * changing definitions of unpaid work: volunteering or work
> experience?
> * problem based learning as training for unpaid work
> * work based learning and voluntary work
> * what the voluntary sector needs from graduates
>
> The day should be of interest to:
> * students and student representatives
> * those working in organisations which could benefit from student or
> graduate volunteers
> * academics and others supporting learning in higher education,
> especially in cultural studies
>
> For further information about the day workshop, to register as a
> participant, or to receive info about the research, please contact Nicole
> Matthews 0151 231 5045 or [log in to unmask] or Mary Corcoran 0151
> 231 5001 or [log in to unmask]
>
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