Including experiential action-learning within our Personal Development Planning (PDP) curriculum is crucial if PDP is to contribute effectively to the employability of our under graduates - do you agree?
To promote the debate I would recommend The Employability Challenge Report (UKCES, 2009) to you. http://www.ukces.org.uk/tags/employability-challenge-full-report
UKCES looked at over 200 organisations before writing the report, which explores the challenge of providing employability learning within the chapter on programme design.
Free copies of both the report and a range of case studies are free while stocks last, but they can also be downloaded using the link above.
Let me know what you think?
Monday 28 June 2010
Monday 21 June 2010
Skills are not enough:
The report below gives an interesting global perspective on the increased competition our graduates will face. It raises fundamental questions as to what impact graduate globalisation will have on Governement policy for HE and our graduates.
"The globalisation of high skills. Within a decade there has been a doubling of university enrolments around the world, reaching close to 63million by 2005. This is leading to a massive increase in the global supply of highly educated workers, able to compete on prive as well as knowledge (Brown et al, 2008). China now has more people in higher education than the United states" (p.10)
"We are now facing the prospect of competing with increasing numbers of high skilled workers on significantly lower wage rates. Returns to education will not therefore provide the guarantee of higher income that the government is looking for to resolve issues of distributional justice."(p.26)
Example: "In an interview with a leading international law firm in the City of London we were told how they off-shored the preparatory work in the development of high profile cases to the Philippines, where lawyers who would cost £125,000 a year in London are paid a fraction of that price." (p.16)
The publication PRAXIS is the UK Commission for Employment and Skills' series of policy think pieces.
Brown, P., Ashton, D., Lauder, H (2010) Skills are not enough: the globallisation of knowledge and the future UK economy, PRAXIS No4, March 2010, UKCES (UK Commission for Employment and Skills.
http://www.ukces.org.uk/publications/praxis-4
Food for thought?
"The globalisation of high skills. Within a decade there has been a doubling of university enrolments around the world, reaching close to 63million by 2005. This is leading to a massive increase in the global supply of highly educated workers, able to compete on prive as well as knowledge (Brown et al, 2008). China now has more people in higher education than the United states" (p.10)
"We are now facing the prospect of competing with increasing numbers of high skilled workers on significantly lower wage rates. Returns to education will not therefore provide the guarantee of higher income that the government is looking for to resolve issues of distributional justice."(p.26)
Example: "In an interview with a leading international law firm in the City of London we were told how they off-shored the preparatory work in the development of high profile cases to the Philippines, where lawyers who would cost £125,000 a year in London are paid a fraction of that price." (p.16)
The publication PRAXIS is the UK Commission for Employment and Skills' series of policy think pieces.
Brown, P., Ashton, D., Lauder, H (2010) Skills are not enough: the globallisation of knowledge and the future UK economy, PRAXIS No4, March 2010, UKCES (UK Commission for Employment and Skills.
http://www.ukces.org.uk/publications/praxis-4
Food for thought?
PDP Top 10 Tips
Hi All
I ran a workshop as part of the Programme Leaders Fora on Friday 18th June. I introduced a new activity to explore the non obvious considerations for developing the PDP curriculum which generated some excellent discussion. I was joined by two colleagues, Elizabeth Claridge and Judie Taylor who introduced the participants to activities they had introduced as part of their PDP curriculum. Elizabeth Claridge talked about the introduction of a Coaching Model for students on the Education Studies Programme. Judie Taylor talked about her approach to PDP and in particular the work she has been doing with Jo Sibson, introducing MBTI, Career Planning, Portfolio Working, Social Enterprise and Bid Writing and Tendering.
Note: If you and your teams are struggling with the PDP curriculum, contact myself or your Link Careers Adviser or myself and we can work with you. (Tel: 01332 591316 / b.haywood@derby.ac.uk)
Bev
I ran a workshop as part of the Programme Leaders Fora on Friday 18th June. I introduced a new activity to explore the non obvious considerations for developing the PDP curriculum which generated some excellent discussion. I was joined by two colleagues, Elizabeth Claridge and Judie Taylor who introduced the participants to activities they had introduced as part of their PDP curriculum. Elizabeth Claridge talked about the introduction of a Coaching Model for students on the Education Studies Programme. Judie Taylor talked about her approach to PDP and in particular the work she has been doing with Jo Sibson, introducing MBTI, Career Planning, Portfolio Working, Social Enterprise and Bid Writing and Tendering.
Note: If you and your teams are struggling with the PDP curriculum, contact myself or your Link Careers Adviser or myself and we can work with you. (Tel: 01332 591316 / b.haywood@derby.ac.uk)
Bev
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