Employability

This Learning Circle is a forum for WIHEA fellows to discuss and develop initiatives and practices to work towards furthering the employability of our students. To this end this Learning Circle seeks to bring together multiple perspectives and stakeholders from across the institution and without to explore students’ employability journeys and develop tools to support them.

There is already a huge amount of work that goes into supporting our students with their employability. The core aim of this Learning Circle is to recognise the significant achievements that Warwick has made in this regard and continue to develop a culture, and support initiatives that increase awareness, development and embedding of employability (and related skills).

Our agree common goals for 25/26 are :

• Recruit fellows, both staff and students to develop a shared space to talk and develop a common language for employability.
• To represent both the employers’ and student voice within the LC by actively working towards gathering employer perspectives on embedding employability and graduate skills requirements within the curriculum and highlighting examples on co creating work.
• To develop and deliver a series of initiatives to share best practice and bring together members of staff, students as well as employers with the aim of generating increased awareness for the employability and skills agenda. This would help achieve the objective of starting and continuing conversation among stakeholders, employers and academic work.
• Explore ways in which employability has been successfully embedded into the working and teaching culture of departments and to examine what approaches could be adapted to facilitate similar integration in other departments.
• Ensure a data driven approach to the delivery of employability and skills activity across the institution.