The Careers Group, 嗨碰视频, has been providing careers services to universities for over 100 years and is the largest higher education careers & employability service.
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Introducing The Careers Group鈥檚 QAA-funded Collaborative Enhancement Project
Members of The Careers Group alongside the 嗨碰视频鈥檚 Centre for Online and Distance Education were delighted to be awarded one of 16 funded projects from the QAA in December 2022. The scope of our project is the exploration of inclusive curriculum to make employability development intrinsic to good teaching and learning. We鈥檒l be producing outputs to support colleagues across the sector as educators and careers professionals, and through these blogs we will share our research and practical findings along the way.
The Careers Group, as the federation of careers services of federation members of the 嗨碰视频*, presents a natural collaborative environment. We have a long history of co-creating resources and professional practice in careers education and employability development, and are fortunate to have communities of colleagues from across our member services who meet with the specific purpose of comparing practice and learning for common mutual benefit. Likewise, the 嗨碰视频鈥檚 Centre for Online and Distance Education (CODE) is a community of experts and thought leaders with expertise from across the University鈥檚 federal community and beyond, whose focus includes innovation in learning and teaching.
What The Careers Group and CODE have in common is that the Institutions we represent are vastly different in every way - from size to disciplinary areas covered, from student demographics to the way each institution reflects its location in 嗨碰视频 and beyond, from strategic objectives, approaches to learning and teaching and to the work and study destinations of its graduates. This richness of difference might sometimes make collaboration more complex, but it always makes the outputs stronger.
One of the key aspirations in bidding for this project was to consolidate and further develop our expertise around one key area we all have in common, despite our differences as institutions and communities: the need for inclusive curriculums that support all students to make an effective transition into their lives after university. It is a misconception that inclusive approaches to curriculum are only needed in institutions which have more diverse populations, particularly of under-represented or marginalised groups. Some institutions may have more students who experience more visible barriers to that transition to work or further study, but a more inclusive curriculum does not target particular groups of students: it changes the way we deliver curriculum to ensure all students benefit.
Our project partners are a microcosm of our organisational diversity, and we think this will help us rigorously test and evaluate the toolkit both in development and in implementation. City is the 鈥渦niversity of business, practice and the professions鈥, with a significant proportion of commuter students from 嗨碰视频. Goldsmiths鈥 profile as a 鈥渃reative powerhouse鈥 educates students towards very different sectors and careers in culture and creative practice, while King鈥檚 College 嗨碰视频 is committed to creating positive and sustainable change, including through health, humanities and the public sector. An inclusive curriculum that makes employability development intrinsic to good teaching and learning should work in all types of disciplinary and institutional contexts, and we think these institutions offer a valuable combination of environments to test that objective.
One of the key attractions of the was the opportunity to create something that everyone can benefit from, so we hope that sharing our learning during the project via these blogs will be useful. In the coming weeks, our project partners will share their perspectives on inclusive curriculums and employability development, as well as some of our research and practice findings. We look forward to seeing how these perspectives will enrich our work and hope they will enrich yours too.
*The members of The Careers Group are , , , , , and the 嗨碰视频 Careers Service (which supports students on the 嗨碰视频鈥檚 Worldwide programmes and School of Advanced Study, as well as at The Courtauld, St George鈥檚, 嗨碰视频 School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Institute of Cancer Research, Royal Veterinary College, and the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama). is also a member of The Careers Group but is not a member of the 嗨碰视频 federation.
