Many tutors, particularly those using e-portfolios such as pebble pad, are helping students with their PDP, by building skills and capability profiles to aid student reflective activities.
The CIHE (Council for Industry & Higher Education), ESECT (Enhancing Student Employability Co-ordination Team) and the HEA(Higher Education Academy) carried out a substantive piece of work to identify subject employability profiles for employers.*
In 2009 the CIHE and HE Academy carried out a review of the Employability Competences.** The report provides an interesting overview, together with updated competences and behavioural indicators, which gives the reader the descriptive language students often find difficult when reflecting upon or articulating their learning. The competences are clustered under six competency headings:
- Cognitive skills
- Generic Competencies
- Personal Capabilities
- Technical Ability
- Business and/or Organisation Awareness
- Practical and Professional Elements
I show cased the original subject profiles at a Derby Learning, Teaching and Assessment conference a few years ago, but I still think they can provide a basis for discussion when designing skills and capability profiles for your subject areas.
I would be interested to hear from anyone who has used.
*Employability Guide BEST Subject Centre: Student Employability Profile, 2004, HEA, ESECT, CIHE
**Forbes, P & Kubler B, Thinking .... CIHE-HE Academy Employability Competences Riview, CIHE Policy Forum, February 2009, CIHE, (http://www.cihe-uk.com/)
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