Dear all,

I attach a report on ‘The Rhetoric of Employability’, based on the findings of a two-year research project at the University of Leeds.

It aims to:

Investigate the way employability is described within different parts of the University (Marketing, Quality Assurance, Module Descriptors etc)
Expose the gaps between University and Employer ‘languages’ of employability
Look at the way students understand and react to ‘Employability’ within their curricula

It has modest ambitions and localised, case-based findings, but I hope it may be useful, especially as a way of getting you to think about similar issues at your institution: I know we are interested in the same questions.

It does not tackle the pedagogical literature on employability: I’m getting into that in my next project on Employability & Assessment.

We will explore these questions further at our HEA sponsored workshop at Leeds on December 1^st: http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/events/detail/2013/Seminars/Themes/WSST08-Leeds

It would be great to see you there,

Rafe

Dr Raphael Hallett

University Teaching Fellow

Early Modern History

School of History

University of Leeds

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