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Learning, Curriculum and Employability in Higher Education »
Authors: Peter Knight, Mantz Yorke
ISBN-13: 9780415303422, ISBN-10: 0415303427
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: June 2005
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: Peter Knight
Book Synopsis
Anyone with a responsibility for curriculum development or policy making who wants to advance learning and promote employability among their students will find this book absolutely essential reading.
Table of Contents
| List of illustrations | ||
| Contributors | ||
| Introduction | 1 | |
| Pt. I | Employability | 5 |
| 1 | The challenge of employability | 7 |
| 2 | Employability: more than skills and wish-lists | 22 |
| 3 | A new view of employability | 36 |
| 4 | A research study of employability | 50 |
| 5 | The study of English and the careers of its graduates | 69 |
| Pt. II | Towards the enhancement of practice | 85 |
| 6 | How we can develop employability | 87 |
| 7 | Engaging students with the worlds of work | 102 |
| 8 | Assessing for employability | 120 |
| 9 | The Skills plus project and nursing | 141 |
| 10 | Skills plus and the Construction Management programme at Liverpool John Moores University | 154 |
| 11 | Employability and social science | 165 |
| 12 | Principles and practices for enhancing employability at programme or departmental level | 178 |
| 13 | An institutional perspective on employability | 196 |
| Envoi | 219 | |
| References | 221 | |
| Index | 234 |
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