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 results of the annual Graduate Outcomes Survey are upon us again, and across the sector we scramble to analyse our performance in terms of highly skilled employment outcomes and how this might affect our internal performance measures and external league table standings. But it is worth looking beyond the…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
The 10th in this weekly series of blogs on employability was written by Gabi Binnie, Head of Funded Projects at Gradconsult. Gabi is on Twitter @gabi_binnie. The UK has a higher level of regional inequality than any other large wealthy country, including the United States, France and Germany. This inequality is evident both economically, in…