Developing a Graduate Careers Ecosystem: Insights from the AGCAS Graduate Transitions Task Group
Members of the AGCAS Graduate Transitions Task Group outline how universities are responding to a growing focus on graduate outcomes and introduce a new toolkit designed to support careers practitioners and services in this area.
Live Projects: A Valuable Addition to a Student’s Work Experience Portfolio
Live projects enable employers to engage meaningfully with large numbers of students, help universities to deliver their employer engagement aims at scale, and give educators more control over what students are learning while engaging with industry.
Enterprise and Entrepreneurship Education: Where Are We Now and Where Do We Want to Get to?
Helen Hook shares AGCAS research into the confidence of careers professionals to deliver enterprise education to students. She identifies ways to improve staff confidence, sharing practice from University of Birmingham and issues an invitation to join a wider enterprise educator network.
Employability Through the Student Lifecycle: Encouraging Early Career Planning
Students want careers to be threaded throughout their course, so how do we encourage early engagement with careers education, and sustain this throughout the student lifecycle?
Meeting the Challenges Faced by a University Careers Service: An Insider’s Perspective
Paul Gratrick explores challenges facing university careers and employability leaders in the context of the wider HE socio-economic and regulatory landscape.
Interview: Engaging Academics in the Employability Agenda
Gemma Kenyon (City, AGCAS) and Stefan Couch (Queen Mary) discuss how to engage academic colleagues in employability education, with insights from their own practice.