Employability, enterprise and employer engagement
Call for case studies: employability, entrepreneurship and employer engagement (the 3 E's)
Colleagues are invited to submit case studies of activities involving students of languages, linguistics or area studies to share good practice in this increasingly important area of activity. Possible activities include assessed modules/ assignments, workplacements, partnerships with employers and working with careers advisors.
A template to help you organise your case study is available here: Case study template (152Kb, Word). Please submit your completed case study to John Canning j.canning@soton.ac.uk
Case studies received to date
- Work placement in Senegal University of Portsmouth (148Kb, Word)
- Taking Advantage of Time Away (online module) University of Edinburgh (152Kb, Word)
- Careers with Languages Alumni event Lancaster University (8.21Mb, Word)
- Language Futures Careers event University of Salford (160Kb, Word)
- Website resource (wiki) University of St Andrews (148Kb, Word)
- Language Career Talks Heriot-Watt University (160Kb, Word)
- Making your year abroad count University of Liverpool (152Kb, Word)
- www.liverpoolyearabroad.org.uk University of Liverpool (152Kb, Word)
- Languages Careers Fair – Languages in the Limelight University of Liverpool (156Kb, Word)
LLAS Publications
Allan, R. (2006) A Wider perspective and more options: Investigating the longer term employability of humanities graduates. (Southampton: Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies).
Croucher, K., Canning, J. & Gawthrope, J. (2007) Here be dragons? Enterprising graduates in the humanities. (Southampton: Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies).
LLAS website resources
Canning, J. (2004) Enhancing employability: A guide for teaching staff in languages, linguistics and area studies.
Canning, J. (2007) Commercial awareness and employability.
Hudson, R. (2006) How can key skills "sell" Linguistics to students and employers?
700 Reasons for Studying Languages database: Employability
Search LLAS website by keyword: employability
Other languages, linguistics and area studies resources
Higher Education Academy: Student employability profiles for languages, linguistics and area studies
National Network for Interpreting
National Network for Translating
British Association for American Studies graduate survey
Higher Education Academy resources
Higher Education Academy: Scottish Higher Education Employability Network (SHEEN)
Higher Education Academy: Employability and enterprise
Higher Education Academy: Employer engagement
Centres for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL)
Embedding, Enhancing and Integrating Employability (Sheffield Hallam University)
http://extra.shu.ac.uk/cetl/e3ihome.htm
Centre for Promoting Learner Autonomy (Sheffield Hallam University)
http://extra.shu.ac.uk/cetl/cplahome.html
Centre for Employability through the Humanities (University of Central Lancashire)
www.uclan.ac.uk/facs/class/cfe/ceth
Centre for Professional Learning from the Workplace (University of Westminster)
www.wmin.ac.uk/page-5818
White Rose CETL Enterprise (Universities of Sheffield, Leeds and York)
www.sheffieldcetle.ac.uk
Centre for Excellence in Leadership and Professional Learning (Liverpool John Moores University)
www.ljmu.ac.uk/cetl/
Bridges Experience CETL - Fostering personal development and employability (University of Bedfordshire)
http://careers.beds.ac.uk/cetl
Other resourses
Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Services (AGCAS)
Higher Education Statistics Agency: Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education
Humbox
The Humbox is a humanities teaching resource repository jointly managed by LLAS.
