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  • Differentiating graduates from modern workplace competitors through their differences: the value of transdisciplinary employability education for TNE students

    8 September 2023 by Laura Brammar and Victoria Wade

    Changes in the global market mean employers are increasingly aware of the need for staff who can blend their specialist knowledge and skillsets with experts from different fields, so as to achieve broader objectives. More than ever employers value, and expect, graduates who can demonstrate interdisciplinarity from day one, working…

  • The arts and humanities: rejecting the zero-sum game

    21 June 2023 by Angeliki Lymberopoulou and Richard Marsden

    Degree students up and down the country are finishing their final assessments before seeking to enter the workplace. Among them are thousands of arts and humanities students whose employment destinations will be many and varied. And that’s a good thing. HEPI’s recent report The Humanities in the UK today: what’s…

  • Essential skills for 2035

    13 June 2023 by Mary Curnock Cook CBE

    A new report from the NFER-led Skills Imperative 2035, An analysis of the demand for skills in the labour market in 2035 is a must-read for the higher education sector.  Part of a five-year research programme funded by the Nuffield Foundation, the latest publication from a University of Sheffield team…

  • Why aren’t more graduates going into SMEs when they leave college or university?

    13 July 2022 by Lucy Haire and Laura Brassington at HEPI in conversation with Clare Adams, Joanne Patterson and Michael Harbaugh at Handshake

    By Lucy Haire and Laura Brassington at HEPI in conversation with Clare Adams, Joanne Patterson and Michael Harbaugh at Handshake. Handshake are on Twitter @joinhandshakeuk. Around 500,000 new graduates are leaving UK universities and colleges up and down the country this summer. Those long years of study, never-ending nights of revision and…

  • How Do You Solve the Problem of A Future Skills Gap?

    17 June 2022 by Steven Spier

    This blog was written by Professor Steven Spier, Vice-Chancellor, Kingston University. What skills will a fast-growing and innovative company like TikTok need in a few years’ time? The answer is both surprising and revealing – it doesn’t yet know.  They will not necessarily be technical. As a senior executive from TikTok told…

  • Employability Blog Series: What have we learnt?

    10 June 2022 by Saskia Loer Hansen and Kathy Daniels

    The final contribution to this weekly series of blogs on employability was written by Saskia Loer Hansen, Interim Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive, and Professor Kathy Daniels, Associate Pro-Vice Chancellor (Engagement) at Aston University. Over the last four months, a number of colleagues from across the higher education sector have shared their experiences of…

  • Employability Blog Series: How partnerships can make a difference to securing jobs for students

    27 May 2022 by Jacklyn Tubb

    On Thursday 9 June 2022, HEPI is hosting its annual conference, ‘Challenges for the future? The student experience, good governance and institutional autonomy’. Register here. The 12th in this weekly series of blogs on employability was written by Jacklyn Tubb, MAUA, Associate CMI, Head of Business Operations, Faculty of Engineering & Science, University of…

  • Employability Blog Series: Improving Graduate Employment & Employability in Yorkshire

    20 May 2022 by Karen Bryan

    On Thursday 9 June 2022, HEPI is hosting its annual conference, ‘Challenges for the future? The student experience, good governance and institutional autonomy’. Register here. The 11th in this weekly series of blogs on employability was written by Professor Karen Bryan OBE, Vice Chancellor of York St John University. Karen is on Twitter @KBryanYorkSJU.…