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The employability project
The subject centre is participating in a project to explore the issues relating to employability within medicine, dentistry and veterinary medicine. Employability primarily relates to a student’s capability to make good career/specialism choices and to work effectively in the professional environment. Surveys of employer expectations have confirmed that they generally expect graduates to be:
In theory such qualities can be taught through separate programmes but in practice they are more likely to be learned and valued by students if they are embedded in the curriculum and included in the formal assessment processes. The project will explore the appropriate strategies and policies for promoting employability within our constituency. This will be done by:
If you would like to be involved with this project and especially if you would like to join the special interest group, then please email nigel.purcell@ncl.ac.uk The Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) has funded the Enhancing Student Employability Co-ordination Team (ESECT) to help the sector engage with this policy priority. Go to http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/ for more information about the work of ESECT and about employability in general . |
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