Conference programme 2013

University of Chichester Learning and Teaching Conference 2013 Tuesday 11th June

Enhancing and Embedding Employability and Enterprise Preparing Graduates for the 21st Century

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Welcome Learning and Teaching Conference 2013

‘The economic, political and environmental pressures upon Higher Education Institutions have placed the issue of graduate employability centre stage...yet the key challenge to those working in this area remains: how can we best integrate and balance different ways of teaching and learning that promote both effective learning and employability for students?’ (HEA, 2012).

Set against this renewed focus on employability, the focus of this one-day swap-shop is to highlight best practice in the enhancement and embedding of employability and enterprise within indicative areas such as learning and teaching, course and module design, problem-based learning, education for sustainable development, work placement, work-based learning, employer engagement, research and consultancy, and assessment.

Key Note Speaker David Bagley David Bagley has a long history of involvement with Employability and Enterprise at the University of Central Lancashire. After several years as Head of Management Sciences in the Lancashire Business School, he became Head of Enterprise during the early nineties on the ‘Enterprise in Higher Education’ project. Subsequently, he established the Centre for Employability, directing a number of high profile projects including ‘Careers Education in a Mass HE System’, ‘Graduate Enterprise’ and ‘Learning from Work’. In 2005, he also led the establishment of the Centre for Employability through the Humanities – the UCLan cetl.

In 2007, David was appointed Head of Employability and Enterprise at UCLan, a role involving Head of Student Employability development of the Employability Strategy and establishment of ‘Futures’, the Careers and and Enterprise Employability Service at UCLan. More recently he has been the director of four international University of Central projects funded by the Prime Minister’s Initiative (PMI2) to collaborate on Employability and Lancashire Enterprise with universities in China and Nigeria.

Email: dbagley@uclan.ac.uk

Title: ‘Employability isn’t Working’ After 20 years of development work on Employability and Enterprise, there are still arguments raging over questions such as whether new graduates are (or should be) ready for employment, what is meant by ‘employability’ (let alone ‘enterprise’), whose responsibility is it to develop employability in graduates, how success can be measured and even how many graduates do we need?

This presentation will address some of these issues and ask whether we are on the right track.

Along the way I’ll also offer some reminders of ways in which teachers might seek to develop graduates who are critical lifelong learners able to make careers in which they can be satisfied and successful.

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Employability is not just about getting a job. Conversely, just because a student is on a vocational course does not mean that somehow employability is automatic.

Employability is more than about developing attributes, techniques or experience just to enable a student to get a job, or to progress within a current career. It is about learning and the emphasis is less on ‘employ’ and more on ‘ability’. In essence, the emphasis is on developing critical, reflective abilities, with a view to empowering and enhancing the learner [Harvey, 2003]”

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Embedding employability into the core of higher education will continue to be a key priority of Government, universities and colleges, and employers.

This will bring both significant private and public benefit, demonstrating higher education’s broader role in contributing to economic growth as well as its vital role in social and cultural development’ [HEFCE, 2011]

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Programme Outline Learning and Teaching Conference 2013

9.00am

Coffee and Registration: Venue: Cloisters

9.30am

Welcome and Introduction

9.40am

Key Note Speaker: David Bagley

‘Employability isn’t Working’

Venue: Mitre Lecture Theatre (MLT)

10.20am Sessions 1, 2 and 3

Venues:

Strand 1 - Mitre Lecture Theatre (MLT) Strand 2 - LO6

11.35am Refreshments: Cloisters 11.55pm Sessions 4 and 5

Venues:

Strand 1 - Mitre Lecture Theatre (MLT) Strand 2 - LO6

12.50pm Lunch

Venue: Cloisters 1.40pm

Sessions 6, 7 and 8

Venues: Strand 1 - Mitre Lecture Theatre (MLT) Strand 2 - LO6

3.00pm Workshop Cafe

Venues:

Workshop 1 - Cloisters Workshop 2 - E124 Workshop 3 - TBC Workshop 4 - TBC

4.00pm

Q&A and Summary

4.15pm

Learning and Teaching: Going Forward

4.20pm

University of Chichester Module of the Year Award

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Programme Learning and Teaching Conference 2013

Session 1:

Time:

10.25am to 10.45am

Strand 1 (MLT):

‘Earning Whilst Learning’ - Creating Opportunities to Support Employability, Drive Enterprise and Widen Participation Steve Ellis

Strand 2 (LO6):

Coaching Placements - Values and Contributions to Student Learning and the Industry Skills Gap Phil Crisp

Session 2:

Time:

10.50am to 11.10am

Strand 1 (MLT):

Enhancing Student Employability Through Academic Intervention: The Case of York St John Business School Stefanos Nachmias

Strand 2 (LO6):

Displaying Visual Intelligence

Session 3:

Time:

11.15am to 11.35am

Strand 1 (MLT):

Experiences from Embedding Employability Enhancements Across a Large Multi-Disciplinary Faculty

Christopher McHugh

Paul Cashian

Strand 2 (LO6):

Singing from the Same Song Book: The Nexus of Enterprise Education and Local Enterprise Partnerships Lyn Batchelor

Session 4:

Time:

12.00pm to 12.20pm

Strand 1 (MLT):

Using ‘Creativity’ as a Vehicle for Enhancing Student Development and Employability Hazel Messenger

Strand 2 (LO6):

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Debates Series in Enterprise and Sustainability Anthony Johnson and Cara Lee Roth

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Session 5:

Time:

12.25pm to 12.45pm

Strand 1 (MLT):

Producing London’s Most Business Ready Graduates: An Example of Best Practice from London Metropolitan University Dr Jane Neal-Smith and Dr Wendy Bloisi

Strand 2 (LO6):

Supporting Early Years Practitioners to Manage the Complexities of Policy Change Shirley Allen and Angela Scollan

Session 6:

Time:

1.45pm to 2.05pm

Strand 1 (MLT):

Networking for Employer Engagement – Southampton Solent University HRM Network Christine Fountain

Strand 2 (LO6):

Enterprise & Creativity – Learning by Doing

Session 7:

Time:

2.10pm to 2.30pm

Strand 1 (MLT):

The Value and Challenges of Using Real World Experiences for Personal Training Students

Bonnie Hacking

Martin Skivington and Ian Harris

Strand 2 (LO6):

A Stepping Stone Approach To Employability

Session 8:

Time:

2.35pm to 2.55pm

Strand 1 (MLT):

The Development of Partnerships to Enhance the Employability of Sports Graduates at Southampton Solent University

Nerys Brick

Ian Harris, Paul Davies and Phil Green

Strand 2 (LO6):

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Fine Art External Projects Rachel Johnston

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Programme Learning and Teaching Conference 2013

Time:

Workshop Cafe 3pm to 4pm

Workshop 1:

Visualising an Employable Self: Planning Careers, SelfEmployment and Student Start-ups with the Business Model Canvas

Faciliator:

Lyn Batchelor

Venue:

Cloisters

Workshop 2:

Keeping it Real: Introducing Business Skills to the Uninitiated Using SimVenture

Faciliator:

Chris Dancer

Venue:

LO3

Workshop 3:

Learning for the Future - Employability and Education

Faciliator:

Hugh Dunkerley and Duncan Reavey

for Sustainable Development

Venue: E124

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Workshop 4:

Creative and Collaborative Approaches to Employability in the Curriculum

Faciliator:

Melanie Hall

Venue:

LO6

Workshop 5:

Damned if You Do and Damned if You Don’t

Faciliator:

Dr Wendy Seal and Shonali Rodriguez

Venue:

College House Room 10

Workshop 6:

Learning and Teaching Strategy Consultation Workshop

Faciliator:

Dr Andy Clegg

Venue:

College House Room 11

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mapdance is very much one of the leading players in terms of graduate performance of contemporary dance … it transcended what we may perceive to be student dance and held its own in terms of disciplined, focussed and innovative work from a very accomplished young ensemble’

[Adrian Berry Director of Jackson’s Lane, London]

Launched in September 2006, mapdance is the University of Chichester’s MA Student Performance Company jointly directed by Jerwood Award Winner, Yael Flexer (Bedlam Dance Company) and Detta Howe (Ginger Dance Theatre). mapdance has established itself as an exciting company of young, dynamic dancers recruited nationally and internationally, performing a diverse repertoire by renowned and upcoming contemporary choreographers. www.chiuni.ac.uk/swapshop

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Session 1 Time:

10.25am to 10.45am

Venue:

Mitre Lecture Theatre

Title:

‘Earning Whilst Learning’ - Creating Opportunities to Support Employability, Drive Enterprise and Widen Participation

Contributor(s):

Steve Ellis, Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management

Institution:

School of Enterprise Management and Leadership, University of Chichester

Contact: s.ellis@chi.ac.uk

This session focusses on our experience of the creation and delivery of a new Day Release Degree in Business Studies which commenced in 2012 at the Bognor Regis Campus of the University of Chichester, School of Enterprise, Management and Leadership (SEMAL). There were four main drivers for introducing the programme all reflective of the local business market these were the perceived increased costs of full time study potentially reducing applications from qualified students, the ongoing desire of experienced people in employment to obtain a degree, local employers seeking ways of retaining and attracting young, talented employees, motivated unemployed people seeking employment alongside an opportunity to study. All of these factors were instrumental in increasing the diversity of the SEMAL Offer.

Direct benefits of the programme are student learning and confidence boosted over both long and short term, extended (cost effective) use of existing SEMAL resources (buildings, staff etc.) through the day-release, 3 term based model, inroad to new markets of potential, part-time students now open (e.g. mature, self –employed, unemployed). Indirect benefits were also foreseen in that new relationships between employers and SEMAL would be created, positive stories for more effective future marketing and PR would be generated, we would resurrected a moribund Foundation Degree programme, coaching and mentoring support for all partner employers would be offered. The key challenges of delivering the programme were, generating the applications and matching them with partner organisations, aligning internal systems which are understandably hard-wired for full time undergraduate programmes, keeping engagement and support from partner organisations for the trainees/employees.

Venue:

LO6

Title:

Coaching Placements - Values and Contributions to Student Learning and the Industry Skills Gap Contributor(s):

Phil Crisp, Senior Lecturer

Institution:

Department of Sport Development and Management, University of Chichester

Contact: p.crisp@chi.ac.uk

At time of writing, both SkillsActive (the Sector Skills Council for Active Leisure, Learning & Wellbeing), and SportsCoach UK (the lead agency articulating the nature and direction of coaching in the UK) have expressed concerns regarding skills gaps within the UK for the coaching sector.

This presentation examines the learning experiences of a level five foundation degree cohort who undertook supported coaching placements as part of two 15 credit modules at the University of Chichester, and more specifically, the presentation explores the role of formative assessments in addressing skills gaps that have been identified by the sports coaching industry.

In order to do this, the presentation outlines how reflection and action points, in the context of workrelated teaching and learning, can aid student development and enhance graduate employability, thereby meeting many of the wider professional sector’s identified skills gaps, such asinitiative, planning, and inter and intrapersonal skills.

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Session 2 Time:

10.50am to 11.10am

Venue:

Mitre Lecture Theatre

Title:

Enhancing Student Employability Through Academic Intervention: The Case of York St John Business School

Contributor(s):

Dr Stefanos Nachmias, Head of Programme MA Leadership and Management

Institution:

York St John Business School

Contact: s.nachmias@yorksj.ac.uk

The session aims to explore how academic intervention in teaching and assessment could enhance student employability. Higher education institutions have been encouraged to establish degree courses that develop essential skills and attributes (Tomlinson, 2007). The substantial increase in the number of new business graduates has triggered a heightened level of discussion about the different approaches to graduate employability (O’Regan, 2010). This has been the subject of contest and debate for many key stakeholders (educators, employers and policy makers) involve in this dynamic process (Feltz and Payment, 2005). Some researchers have criticised the increasing emphasis on employability and skills as it threatens other developmental outcomes (Keep and Mayhew, 2004). Nevertheless, an effective approach to employability should encourage students to become independent learners and critical thinkers necessary to gain confidence in their ability to take effective and appropriate career actions.The development of skills and attributes which go beyond the disciplinary expertise or technical knowledge can be achieved through: active citizenship, critical thinking and effective communication, learning and personal development and academic excellence.

Venue:

LO6

Title:

Displaying Visual Intelligence

Contributor(s):

Chris McHugh, Senior Lecturer Fine Arts

Institution:

University of Chichester

Contact: c.mchugh@chi.ac.uk

Visual display is, by definition, intrinsic to art practice – this, after all, is how we usually encounter art - and an understanding of its complexities and potential is vital for employability in the arts. At the University of Chichester display is intrinsic to how we structure the study of Fine Art. This can be seen through a range of activities; from students’ summative exhibitions at the end of the programme in the publicly-facing Degree Show in May, to undergraduate, post graduate and research exhibitions in the Otter Gallery, to assessment displays in the studios of artOne through the year and student and staff works enhancing the estate at BOC and BRC.We build the issues and processes of curation and display into the Learning and Teaching plans for our various modules and our Research strategy…. and make particular use of the Otter Gallery exhibitions to provide explorative and experiential activities for students. In this presentation we highlight instructive examples to examine the challenges and benefits of calling upon different intelligences in this aspect of L&T in Fine Art. And further, we consider how an engagement in the processes of curation, display, interpretation and discourse are really key transferable skills for employability.

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Session 3 Time:

11.15am to 11.35am

Venue:

Mitre Lecture Theatre

Title:

Experiences from Embedding Employability Enhancements Across a Large Multi- Disciplinary Faculty Contributor(s):

Paul Cashian, Director of Learning and Teaching, Faculty of Business, Environment and Society,

Institution:

Coventry University

Contact: bsx057@coventry.ac.uk The Faculty of Business, Environment and Society is a large Faculty which includes Coventry Business School, Coventry Law School plus a range of Social Science and Humanities discipline areas. Seven years ago the Faculty introduced a range of enhancements, both within and around the curriculum, aimed at improving our students’ employability.The original approach adopted was based around the USEM model developed by the ESECT team which recognised the holistic and essentially personal nature of employability. Enhancements included academic credit for a range of work experiences, not just the traditional sandwich placements; the establishment of an Employability and Placements Unit; the use of department-based employability tutors; and the embedding of 10 credit career development modules at levels 1 and 2 across all programmes.

The purpose of the presentation is to share how, over the last seven years, our original employability enhancements and support processes have evolved in the light of our experience. One key development has been the recognition that whilst the enhancements were developing ‘employability’ (the ability to sustain and develop a graduate career) they were not impacting on ‘employment’ (making the initial transition into a graduate job). This has led to the Faculty employing a team of department-based employment tutors who have recent hands-on experience as graduate recruiters and provide sector specific employment support to students.

Venue:

LO6

Title:

Singing from the Same Song Book: The Nexus of Enterprise Education and Local Enterprise Partnerships

Contributor(s):

Dr Lyn Batchelor, School of Enterprise Management and Leadership

Institution:

University of Chichester

Contact: l.batchelor@chi.ac.uk

The Coast to Capital Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) aims to encourage enterprise growth in the region at grass roots level by working with enterprise educators in the region. It engaged the University of Chichester to outline good practice for a Framework for Enterprise in Education and develop a Handbook for Enterprise Education. The handbook will be used to help drive greater consistency and impact in enterprise education in higher education, further education, secondary and primary. It has designed this handbook to serve as a map of the ‘who, what and how of developing enterprising mindsets in students at all levels of education in the region.While it is obvious that many, if not all, of the attributes of an enterprising individual are outcomes of a well-designed curriculum, these attributes also need to be channelled into an enterprise framework to have a positive impact on both employability and start-up outcomes. The Handbook is a detailed but not exhaustive document and it is intended that by summarising the providers and the provision of enterprise support that educators will consider a greater range of support and activities without having to comb the internet.

This session will give examples of good practice and resources from and for the Coast to Capital area centred on creating an Enterprising Mindset at all levels of education. It outlines the responsibilities of senior management teams, curriculum, activities, employer engagement, combining internal and external provision, partnership and networking, as well as the importance of funding to maximise the opportunities for learners.

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Session 4 Time:

12.00pm to 12.20pm

Venue:

Mitre Lecture Theatre

Title:

Using ‘Creativity’ as a Vehicle for Enhancing Student Development and Employability Contributor(s):

Hazel Messenger, Senior Lecturer, Management, Strategy, Leadership

Institution:

London Metropolitan University Business School

Contact: h.messenger@londonmet.ac.uk This session proposes that developing ‘employability’ is not a straightforward activity involving the acquisition of sets of skills, but a developmental process involving self-awareness and the ability to act skilfully according to the context.

Using the development of creativity as a vehicle, this session reports on a level 5 business school module that aims to develop and demonstrate student awareness of themselves, of contexts that they are familiar with and to make connections between them. Through a series of activities during the module, students are encouraged to use non-traditional methods to demonstrate firstly who they are and their aspirations and finally, their understanding of opportunities and barriers to creativity in a context with which they are familiar.

Contexts that the most recent cohort have chosen to use include part-time work experiences, university life and studying in a foreign country.

The module has proved to be great fun, with students enjoying learning about each other’s experiences and being exposed to different types of media, including cartooning, film, Prezi and model making.

Venue:

LO6

Title:

Debates Series in Enterprise and Sustainability

Contributor(s): Antony Johnston, Centre for Learning and Teaching in Art and Design and Cara Lee Roth, Student Enterprise and Employability Institution:

University of the Arts London

Contact: a.johnston@arts.ac.uk / c.roth@arts.ac.uk

The motivation for our ‘Debates Series in Enterprise and Sustainability’ emerged out of a discussion about University of Gloucestershire’s Enterprise Sustainability Report. From looking at this document it became clear that there was no ‘simple’ or linear approach to thinking about the connection between enterprise and sustainability; particularly within the context of art, design and creative sectors.The process that we undertook in debating the report and its relationship to the future of our students emerged as one approach to model the values of sustainability and to explore the area. This concept was refined into 3 broad themes where invited speakers from the arts, education and sustainability were invited to discuss their perspective and to launch a debate between the speakers and the audience. We will be ‘swapping’ some of the issues of trying to embody the principles of education for sustainability and how this is important for student employability and enterprise.

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Session 5 Time:

12.25pm to 12.45pm

Venue:

Mitre Lecture Theatre

Title:

Producing London’s Most Business Ready Graduates: An Example of Best Practice from London Metropolitan University

Contributor(s):

Dr Jane Neal-Smith and Dr Wendy Bloisi

Institution:

London Metropolitan Business School

Contact: s.neal-smith@londonmet.ac.uk / w.bloisi@londonmet.ac.uk Based in the square mile, LMU is one of the best modern London universities for graduate employment according to the Destination of Leavers from Higher Education (DLHE) report, published annually by the HESA. LMBS as part of the University has a pedagogic strategy focused on embedding key skills within course and module design. With identified modules focusing on developing and enhancing desirable skills required in the labour market, LMBS encourages students to complement their academic knowledge with attributes which will enable them to be employable in their chosen markets. This paper takes the example of one module – Leadership, Innovation & Entrepreneurship – and explores the approach employed in the design and assessment and identifies how students develop their employability skills as part of the curriculum.

Venue:

LO6

Title:

Supporting Early Years Practitioners to Manage the Complexities of Policy Change

Contributor(s):

Shirley Allen and Angela Scollan, Senior Lecturers Early Childhood Studies

Institution:

Middlesex University

Contact: s.f.allen@mdx.ac.uk / a.scollan@mdx.ac.uk

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Early Years policy currently emphasises outcomes that are concerned with opportunities for employment and participation in global economic competition (DfE, 2013). If practitioners are charged with supporting children’s future economic well-being, it is vital they are empowered to develop ‘personal agency and resourcefulness’ (Allen et al., 2012) to ‘deal with uncertainty’ (Urban, 2008) in the current economic climate.

This paper explores how Early Years practitioners’ engagement in reflective and reflexive practice is an essential component of a professional programme. Through this process of critical reflection, practitioners develop their capacity to analyse and evaluate pedagogical approaches to practice, and consider how they support young children’s learning and development. Nutbrown (2012) calls for practitioners to have access to ongoing professional development so they can support the ‘life situations of children’ in their care (Urban, 2008: p149). It is therefore pertinent to consider ways in which the process of reflection can be incorporated within a professional programme to enable participants to develop their understanding about practice, which, in turn, will support their confidence and capacity to tackle challenges in managing the complexities of Early Years policy and future policy change.

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Session 6 Time:

1.45pm to 2.05pm

Venue:

Mitre Lecture Theatre

Title:

Networking for Employer Engagement – Southampton Solent University HRM Network Contributor(s):

Christine Fountain, Principal Lecturer

Institution:

Southampton Solent University

Contact: christine.fountain@solent.ac.uk

I shall be swapping (sharing) the concept of employer networking in the business arena. A strong link to the theme of the conference – this network has enhanced employability skills - we have gained insight as to the specific skills demanded by employers, live briefs, placements, module design, validation support, focus group members, research opportunities, work based learning, guest speakers, and a visiting Fellow.

My journey in creating/leading this network (originally HEIF Pump Priming now funded and supported by Dean and faculty in response to the success the network). The case study formed part of my submission for my recent successful Senior Fellow HEA award.We have built a number of sustained, long term relationships.

I shall demonstrate how this successful employer network has strengthened relationships/new partnerships, put our university at the forefront of the mind of these professionals for many different learning/development interventions, provided work placements and live briefs for both HRM and the wider business school, resulted in the appointment of a Visiting Fellow, resulted in employment following placement and enhanced social media networking.

Venue:

LO6

Title:

Enterprise & Creativity – Learning by Doing

Contributor(s):

Bonnie Hacking, Enterprise & Employability Adviser

Institution:

University of St Andrews

Contact: bonnie.hacking@st-andrews.ac.uk

Enterprise & Creativity, a 20-credit, interdisciplinary module run within the School of Management, aims to give second year students from across the university the opportunity to learn how to develop a project by doing it. Enhancing their own creativity and enterprise skills, students work in a team to design and deliver an enterprising project. The success of the module relies on students taking a proactive role in managing their learning.

This session will share with participants St Andrews’ experience of Careers and Academic Staff from the School of Management working together with colleagues from other disciplines and entrepreneurs to deliver enterprise education through this interdisciplinary module - Enterprise and Creativity. Practice to be swapped during this presentation will include: how a practical project integrates skill development and academic learning, the role of input from academics in other discipline areas, the use of senior honours students as coaches for the projects, examples of enterprising projects and how they translate into longer term ventures, and capturing the views of students. Participants will be encouraged to think about how elements of the module might be incorporated into their own teaching and how they could transfer ideas from this session to their own institution more generally.

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Session 7 Time:

2.10pm to 2.30pm

Venue:

Mitre Lecture Theatre

Title:

The Value and Challenges of Using Real World Experiences for Personal Training Students Contributor(s): Martin Skivington, Principal Lecturer Health, Exercise and Sports Science and Ian Harris, Director of School of Sport, Tourism and Languages Institution:

Southampton Solent University

Contact: martin.skivington@solent.ac.uk / ian.harris@solent.ac.uk

Southampton Solent University has developed a strong employability agenda across its courses. The development of the curriculum at unit level has been seen as a key drive to enhance the employability prospects of the students by ensuring the students develop the necessary knowledge and skills to create graduates with impact. However it is clear that to have an impact in the fitness industry, graduates not only need knowledge and skills, but also relevant experience to enhance their employability prospects. To enable the development of this experience the use of real clients has become a core part of the curriculum at SSU. The presentation will outline the practicalities of setting up these initiatives across a range of units, the benefits to the students, the challenges faced in building the initiatives, along with feedback received from both students and clients.

Venue:

LO6

Title:

A Stepping Stone Approach To Employability

Contributor(s):

Nerys Brick, Senior Lecturer, Department of Nursing and Applied Clinical Studies

Institution:

Canterbury Christ Church University

Contact: nerys.brick@canterbury.ac.uk

It has been suggested that student nurses are no longer guaranteed the nursing jobs of their choice on qualifying and so the inference is that the job market is increasingly competitive. Whilst higher education programmes are written to foster the qualities that employers desire in a more competitive world students need to be able effectively to demonstrate these qualities in the job application process, including the interview.

To improve students’ employability threading certain aspects through their programme rather than approaching it as a programme adjunct in the latter half of the final year is vital. Start off in year one by developing a greater recognition of what it is to be a nurse in a particular environment, or using relevant experiences to inform a view of what they as potential nurses can offer. Later on examine and compare nursing in different environments and begin to match their own strengths and weaknesses against this. Students should see the evidence and policy documents, not just as reference material for essays, but also as valuable tools to help shape them as practitioners. The final year needs to accumulate this work and here we suggest students engage with the actual processes of application and selection themselves, creating CV and gathering evidence of their learning, writing applications and the processes of simulated interviews; reflecting on this learning as they go.

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Session 8

Time: 2.35pm to 2.55pm Venue:

Mitre Lecture Theatre

Title:

The Development of Partnerships to Enhance the Employability of Sports Graduates at Southampton Solent University

Contributor(s):

Ian Harris, Director of the School of Sport, Tourism and Languages, Phil Green, Associate Professor, Director of Sport Solent and Paul Davies, Coach Education, Manager Sport Solent

Institution:

Southampton Solent University

Contact: ian.harris@solent.ac.uk / p.green@solent.ac.uk / p.davies@solent.ac.uk

For many years sports students at Southampton Solent University have undertaken National Governing Body of Sport (NGB) coach education awards within the curriculum. However, a lack of experience of coaching in the real world limited the impact gained from these qualifications by many students. Therefore initially on a small scale and voluntary basis, opportunities were developed for students to gain coaching experience at local schools and clubs, through the individual networking of staff. It became clear that a more coherent and structured approach to developing opportunities was required if this development was to become sustainable and widespread.

Initially Sport Solent, the sport and recreation service of SSU, worked with the Southampton City Council and signed a contract to deliver after school coaching sessions in schools across the city, with the sessions primarily being delivered by sports students. Then following the 2010 election and subsequent closure of the School Sport Partnerships across the country, the University bid for and won the contract to maintain a School Sports Partnership in the city.They then, in 2012, took on the running of the City Sports Development Unit from the City Council.These initiatives were also supported through the development of the Edusportsolent initiative to link sport and development projects.

The presentation will outline the development of sports partnerships at SSU, the changes that were made to the curriculum following the opportunities these partnerships facilitated, and how these initiatives have impacted on the university profile, the student experience, and enhanced the employability of graduates.

Venue:

LO6

Title:

Fine Art External Projects

Contributor(s):

Rachel Johnston, Senior Lecturer Fine Art

Institution:

University of Chichester

Contact: r.johnston@chi.ac.uk

Over the last four years all level 5 fine art students have engaged in projects with organisations in the local community. Working with schools, in healthcare environments, day centres and galleries (to name but a few) the students use skills developed through their studio practice to find ways of working with others and creating commissioned art works for public environments.The benefits of these projects have been enormous, both to the organisations, who gain high quality arts input supported by tutors, and to the students themselves who gain skills for employment and experience of working with others. For many students the testing of their skills in a new environment is challenging, but often yields unexpected results, boosting their confidence once they are working back in the studio. Some practical examples of projects and the way they are set up, run and assessed will be given.

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Session 9 Time:

3.00pm to 3.50pm

Venue:

Workshop 1 - Cloisters Chamber

Activity Visualising an Employable Self: Planning Careers, Self-Employment and Student

Start-ups with the Business Model Canvas Facilitator(s):

Dr Lyn Batchelor, School of Enterprise Management and Leadership

Institution:

University of Chichester

Contact: l.batchelor@chi.ac.uk Many graduates are looking for portfolio careers that will fulfil their desire for high pay, travel and other measures of success, while others who have trained for more vocational pathways will need to plan for selfemployment as a professional in their field, or as expert consultants outside their day jobs, while others will want to seek profit from their own business. We have had much success across the diverse programme offering at the University of Chichester using the Business Model Canvas as a tool to model all of these life scenarios with students.This hands-on workshop offers a taste of how we do it. Come along and join in. It is fun, interactive and uses lots of sticky notes.

Workshop 2 - LO3

Venue:

Activity Keeping it Real: Introducing Business Skills to the Uninitiated Using SimVenture Facilitator(s):

Chris Dancer, School of Enterprise Management and Leadership

Institution:

University of Chichester

Contact: c.dancer@chi.ac.uk Students new to business concepts can struggle to understand how marketing, financial modelling, and operations issues mesh together in a real business. Using SimVenture, the business simulation software, at Level 4 allows students to create and run a virtual company exploring business issues. Come along and take a Driving Lesson and discover how you can use a simulation with entry level students to illustrate how business works and at the same time embed enterprise concepts in a module.

Workshop 3 - E124

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Activity Learning for the Future - Employability and Education for Sustainable

Development Facilitator(s):

Hugh Dunkerley, Senior Lecturer in English and Creative Writing

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University of Chichester

Contact: h.dunkerley@chi.ac.uk This workshop will examine the question of how we can equip our students for a world which demands a nimble-footed awareness of risk factors associated with environmental, social and economic change. How can the idea of Education for Sustainable Development aid our curriculum design and our teaching? The workshop will encourage staff from a range of subject areas to begin to envisage what a future graduate may need to look like.

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Workshop 4 - LO6

Activity Creative and Collaborative Approaches to Employability in the Curriculum Facilitator(s): Melanie Hall, Careers Service Institution: University of Chichester Contact: melanie.hall@chi.ac.uk This workshop will discuss a collaborative project run jointly between Media Studies Lecturing staff and career Staff at University of Chichester. The creative project was part of a level 5 placement preparation module and involved groups of students scripting, producing and completing a short film to provide advice to students on employability issues such as how to prepare for interviews. The workshop will exhibit the punchy, pithy films produced and critique using themes from Wenger (1999) ‘Communities of practice’ the learning which ensued.

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Workshop 4 - College House Room 10

Activity Damned if You Do and Damned if You Don’t Facilitator(s): Dr Wendy Sealy and Shonali Rodriguez, School of Enterprise Management and Leadership Institution: University of Chichester Contact: w.sealy@chi.ac.uk / s.rodriguez@chi.ac.uk Freshman students enter HE with unrealistic expectations regarding the employability skills they require for industry due to their limited career and commercial awareness. Consequently, engaging HE students in workbased projects can be challenging for both the employer and the academic team.This round table discussion is an opportunity for academics and employers to exchange ideas on how to best manage this interface. Each participant will be given one minute to articulate their ideas and experiences and to share best practice with other participants.

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Workshop 4 - College House Room 11

Activity Learning and Teaching Strategy Workshop Facilitator(s):

Dr Andy Clegg, Principal Lecturer for Learning and Teaching

Institution:

University of Chichester

Contact: a.clegg@chi.ac.uk The aim of this consultation workshop is to allow colleagues the opportunity to reflect and contribute thoughts and ideas to the new Learning and Teaching Strategy.

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Useful Resources BUTCHER, V., SMITH, J., KETTLE, J. AND BURTON, L. (2011), Review of Good Pedagogy for employability Authors: Ann Pegg, Jeff Waldock, Sonia Hendy-Isaac, Ruth Lawton

Practice in Employability and Enterprise Development by Centres for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, HEA, York.

HEFCE (2011), Opportunity, Choice and Excellence in Higher Education, HEFCE, Bristol [available from: http://www.hefce.ac.uk/news/hefce/2011/strategy.htm].

PEGG, A., WALDOCK, J. HENDY-ISACC AND LAWTON, R. (2012), Pegagogy for Employability, HEA, York.

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HEA (2009), Personal Development Planning and Employability, Revised Edition, HEA, York.

HEA (2012), Report on Teaching and Learning Summit 16-17th May 2012, HEA, York.

UKCES (2009), The Employability Challenge - Full Report, UK Commission for Employment and Skills, London.

UKCES (2009), The Employability Challenge - Case Studies, UK Commission for Report on Teaching and Learning Summit 16th-17th May 2012 ‘Learning for life and work: re-configuring employability for the 21st Century’

Employment and Skills, London.

Maureen Tibby for HEA

Learning and empLoyabiLity

HIGHER EDUCATION ACADEMY - Employability resources available online at http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/employability

Personal development planning and employability revised edition

A date for your diary: Learning and Teaching Conference June 10th 2014: Education for Sustainable Development Conference Organiser: Dr Andy Clegg Principal Lecturer for Learning and Teaching, University of Chichester Email: a.clegg@chi.ac.uk

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