Articles in the Employability
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2010-03-11
Careers in the EU Institutions
On 16 March 2010, the European Personnel Selection Office will launch a procedure to select graduates to work in the EU Institutions. This selection procedure will comprise the fields of European public administration, law, audit, economics, and information and communication technology.
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2010-03-11
AGCAS welcomes new code of practice
AGCAS welcomes the recently-launched revised QAA Code of Practice on Career Education, Information, Advice and Guidance (Section 8) and is pleased to have been centrally involved in the revision.
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2010-03-09
Bursary for graduates volunteering overseas
Youth and education charity Raleigh is offering over 300 bursary places between summer 2010 and spring 2011 to graduates from low income families interested in volunteering overseas. The Raleigh Graduate Bursary Award gives recent graduates the opportunity to develop key employability skills through community and environmental work in remote communities.
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2010-02-07
Employers shortlisted for curriculum work with careers services
Six employers have been shortlisted for the 2010 AGCAS Award for the Outstanding Contribution to Developing Employability and Skills in the Curriculum. They were all nominated by higher education careers services. The award is one of the prestigious annual TARGETjob awards offered by GTI.
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2010-01-18
Government announces national internship service
The government has announced the creation of a national internship service, which will deliver undergraduate internships, partly with the aim of widening access to professions which Alan Milburn's report Unleashing Aspiration highlighted as being out of reach for less well-off or connected graduates.
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2010-01-18
Creating future proof graduates
Birmingham City University was awarded National Teaching Fellowship Scheme (NTFS) funding in 2007 for a project aimed at helping students identify and prepare for critical incidents, which according to employers epitomise the major problems that newly-qualified graduates encounter when they start work in the 'real world'.
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2010-01-18
The value of volunteering
Volunteering is by no means a novel concept in careers guidance and the benefits of the activity for career development are well articulated. However, with graduate unemployment levels rising and all sectors showing falls in vacancies, demonstrating the value of volunteering has never been more important.
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2010-01-18
MASIV in museums
Modular Accreditation for Students Invoved in Volunteering (MASIV) is a project at the University of Reading designed to develop a training and accreditation structure for students volunteering within the museums service.
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2009-11-17
Employability - a key issue for students
The National Student Forum (NSF) has produced its second annual report in which it reports on students' current experiences and sets out its priorities. For the first time, employability receives a chapter of its own in which NSF recommendations to universities, government and national bodies are clearly laid out.
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2009-11-13
Employability central to government's HE framework
The government has unveiled its policy for higher education, setting out the role universities will play in securing the country's economic recovery and long term prosperity. The report includes recommendations that will affect careers services, including a requirement for universities to publish statements on how they promote employability and on the long term employment prospects of particular courses.