Employability at GCU: The Real WoRLD Project

Resources for academic staff

Some useful resources for our academic staff are presented:

• Higher Education Academy - Employability section
• The Employability Challenge: UKCES report executive summary
• The Employability Challenge : UKCES full report
• The Employability Challenge: UKCES report: examples of good practice
• Graduate employability- what do employers think and want?
• The demand for STEM graduates
• Shaping up for the future - CBI report on skills
• Working futures - a report by the UK Commission for Employment and Skills
• Skills for the workplace - employer perspectives
• If only I had known...
• Stepping Higher: CBI report on employer - higher education partnership
• Teaching for employability toolkit
• The Herald, 04 February 2009 - Universities will get extra funding to promote work-related learning
• The Herald, 04 February 2009 - Why academia is split over merits of work-based learning for students
• The Herald, 04 February 2009 - Students at work
• New Task Force of Business and University leaders
• Students are Failed in Business Know-How
• Competiveness and the role of universities
• Taking stock – CBI report on education and skills
• Futureskills Scotland - The Work-Readiness of Recruits from Colleges and Universities in Scotland
• The Graduate Market in 2009 : the latest update
• New CBI Report: Stronger together: Businesses and universities in turbulent times, September 2009
• Learning to Work Two –SFC Consultation Events Summary Paper, June 2009
• Learning to Work 2 - new consultation document from the Scottish Funding Council
• What employers really, really want
• CBI highlights Glasgow Caledonian University’s success in preparing students for employment
• ‘Future Fit: Preparing graduates for the world of work’
• Launching ‘Future Fit’ report
• Embedding and assessing employability: good practice example

Work-related learning is everybody's responsibility - Glasgow Caledonian case study in CBI report "Future Fit"

• GCU case study

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Real WoRLD Project email: realworld@gcal.ac.uk

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