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Employability model from UCLAN

Staff at the University of Central Lancashire Centre for Employability have developed a new model of graduate employability. Writing in Phoenix (Winter 2007), Senior Lecturer, Peter Sewell,says:

We have thought for some time that the term ‘employability' has been used in Higher Education without any real consensus about the meaning of the concept.  It is often used carelessly and interchangeably with ‘enterprise', which in turn is often confused with ‘entrepreneurship'.  Although there were a number of existing models of employability, we felt these to be either too elaborate to be practically useable or too simple to do justice to this multi-faceted issue.  We thought there was a real necessity for a clear definition and a practical, coherent model of graduate employability that would embrace this complexity but still be understandable for students, their parents, academics, careers practitioners and anybody else with an interest in employability issues.

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