{"id":1122,"date":"2025-12-10T17:14:02","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T17:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journals.staffs.ac.uk\/index.php\/improving-employability-in-higher-education-delivering-and-embedding-employability-modules-within-undergraduate-courses\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T17:14:02","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T17:14:02","slug":"improving-employability-in-higher-education-delivering-and-embedding-employability-modules-within-undergraduate-courses","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/journals.staffs.ac.uk\/index.php\/improving-employability-in-higher-education-delivering-and-embedding-employability-modules-within-undergraduate-courses\/","title":{"rendered":"Improving employability in Higher Education: Delivering and embedding employability modules within undergraduate courses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Volume:<\/strong> 3<br \/>\n<strong>Issue: <\/strong>1<br \/>\n<strong>Year:<\/strong> 2017<br \/>\n<strong>Author(s):<\/strong> Karl McCormack Staffordshire University<\/p>\n<p>Employability is receiving increased attention from higher education providers, parents, government and statistical bodies, as well as staff and students (Graves &amp; Maher, 2014; HEA, 2015) but this focus is nothing new, it can be traced back to the Robbins Report (1963) and the Dearing Report (1997).<br \/>\nThe Higher Education Academy (HEA) (2015) stated that employability was an institutional wide responsibility and even developed an employability framework for embedding employability.<br \/>\nQAA subject benchmark statements make reference to the expectation that graduates will develop employability skills through their programme of study (HEA, 2012).<br \/>\nThis short evaluative project will reflect on my experiences of embedding employability into the curriculum focusing on a module called Professional Development.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Documents:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/journals.staffs.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Improving_employability_in.ppsx\">Improving_employability_in.ppsx<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/journals.staffs.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/journals.staffs.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/journals.staffs.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/journals.staffs.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Volume: 3 Issue: 1 Year: 2017 Author(s): Karl McCormack Staffordshire University Employability is receiving increased attention from higher education providers, parents, government and statistical bodies, as well as staff and students (Graves &amp; Maher, 2014; HEA, 2015) but this focus is nothing new, it can be traced back to the Robbins Report (1963) and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1122","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.staffs.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.staffs.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.staffs.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.staffs.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.staffs.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/journals.staffs.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.staffs.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}