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Learning, curriculum, and employability in higher education / Peter Knight, Mantz Yorke.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : RoutledgeFalmer, 2004Description: x, 240 pISBN:
  • 0415303427
  • 0415303435 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 378.0130941 21
LOC classification:
  • LC67.68.G7 K55 2004
Contents:
Pt. I. Employability -- 1. The challenge of employability -- 2. Employability: more than skills and wish-lists -- 3. A new view of employability -- 4. A research study of employability -- 5. The study of English and the careers of its graduates / Philip Martin and Jane Gawthrope -- Pt. II. Towards the enhancement of practice -- 6. How we can develop employability -- 7. Engaging students with the worlds of work -- 8. Assessing for employability -- 9. The Skills plus project and nursing / Geraldine Lyte -- 10. Skills plus and the Construction Management programme at Liverpool John Moores University / Aled Williams -- 11. Employability and social science / Margaret Edwards and Chris McGoldrick -- 12. Principles and practices for enhancing employability at programme or departmental level -- 13. An institutional perspective on employability.
Review: "This book draws on a set of over 200 in-depth interviews with graduates in employment, and includes a unique account of the meanings of employability in the workplace. Anyone with responsibility for curriculum development or policy making within higher education, who wants to advance learning and promote student employability, will find this book essential reading."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pt. I. Employability -- 1. The challenge of employability -- 2. Employability: more than skills and wish-lists -- 3. A new view of employability -- 4. A research study of employability -- 5. The study of English and the careers of its graduates / Philip Martin and Jane Gawthrope -- Pt. II. Towards the enhancement of practice -- 6. How we can develop employability -- 7. Engaging students with the worlds of work -- 8. Assessing for employability -- 9. The Skills plus project and nursing / Geraldine Lyte -- 10. Skills plus and the Construction Management programme at Liverpool John Moores University / Aled Williams -- 11. Employability and social science / Margaret Edwards and Chris McGoldrick -- 12. Principles and practices for enhancing employability at programme or departmental level -- 13. An institutional perspective on employability.

"This book draws on a set of over 200 in-depth interviews with graduates in employment, and includes a unique account of the meanings of employability in the workplace. Anyone with responsibility for curriculum development or policy making within higher education, who wants to advance learning and promote student employability, will find this book essential reading."--BOOK JACKET.

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