Overview
For this year’s Employability Symposium, we’ll be focusing on the 3Es of employability, enterprise, and entrepreneurship. We know there is a lot of great work across the sector, distilling this and creating a what works evidence base is essential to enhance student success. In order to do this, we believe the sector must work collaboratively. We call for discipline advocates to champion the work within and beyond your institution and urge you to replicate and test many of the fabulous examples that have been shared across the years to test the efficacy of the approaches. While continuing to share good practice, this is also a call to action to share what doesn’t work. We know that there is a lot of good practice out there, with many approaches accelerating learning and supporting employability provision. However, perhaps there are those you have tried or replicated that proved impossible to scale? Perhaps some were financially impossible to support? Others may not be practical or proved to be inaccessible, others might simply have proven to be a waste of time. There is nothing wrong with failure but failing to learn from this is a gap that we wish to address in this symposium.
Symposium aims
The aims of this symposium are to:
- provide an open and supportive environment within which to share and discuss contemporary practice and initiatives for the 3Es in teaching and learning; and
- provide evidence-informed examples and ideas for university staff and students to address current challenges around the 3Es in higher education.
Who should attend?
Teaching practitioners including: heads of departments, academic programme leaders and developers, all lecturing staff, learning technologists and staff focused on employability including those in careers departments, enterprise teams and with employer liaison roles. Join the conversation: Tweet your thoughts and comments about the Employability Symposium at #EmpSymp24.
