Embedding Employability Within Learning & Teaching
Published: 18 September 2024
Last week, the Student Skills and Professional Development Workstream held two workshops to start developing a new taxonomy of skills that will support the embedding of employability within learning and teaching.
Last week, the Student Skills and Professional Development Workstream held two workshops to start developing a new taxonomy of skills that will support the embedding of employability within learning and teaching. Over 90 students and staff signed up to support the development of the taxonomy at the University of Glasgow, allowing us to extract the experiences and knowledge from a wide range of perspectives.
Working with Dr Kate Daubney, who pioneered the extracted employability approach that underpins our strategy here at UofG, we were able to draw on her expertise to collectively develop a taxonomy of skills. This will give us a shared language of transferable skills we can use to explain the value of what we teach, and support students to navigate their future and the world of work.
This work will in time help colleagues better articulate the skills value innate in our subject areas and broaden the reach of employability terminology across all subjects.
Following this workshop, the Student Skills and Professional Development Workstream will use the outputs to progress on the university’s mission to surface skills within courses across all colleges.
We wanted to take this opportunity to extend a big thank you to all the colleagues and students who attended the sessions, and gave up their time to help progress this exciting work!
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First published: 18 September 2024