scholarly journals Integrating Technology to Increase Graduate Employability Skills: A Blockchain Case Study in Property Law Teaching

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate Galloway ◽  
Francina Cantatore ◽  
Louise Parsons
Keyword(s):  
Employability Skills ◽  
Property Law ◽  
Graduate Employability ◽  
Integrating Technology

scholarly journals Learning beyond the classroom: biomedical science students' narratives of volunteering and developing employability skills.

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheila Cunningham ◽  
Deeba Gallacher
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Personal Growth ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Third Sector ◽  
Teaching Experience ◽  
Intellectual Ability ◽  
Employability Skills ◽  
Biomedical Science ◽  
Graduate Employability

This case study focuses on a work that developed from a Higher Education Academy (HEA) teaching development grant which investigated biomedical science undergraduate students experiences of engaging with health related volunteering opportunities and the link with maximising employability skills in a North London university.Biomedical students recognise theoretical knowledge and practical skills as essential to employability but have limited opportunity to apply these with sparse placement opportunities especially within hospital or laboratory environments. Graduate employability skills are generally accepted as the knowledge, skills and attributes to be effective in the workplace.  Reports on graduate employability highlight communication skills, team-working, integrity, intellectual ability and self confidence as the five most important attributes sought by employers (Archer and Davidson, 2008).  UCAS (2012) expands this (biomedicine profile) by including creativity, initiative and flexibility and with what could also be argued as important: wisdom, (Schwartz, 2012). This is a tall order for any curriculum and in reality embraces more than classroom or laboratory learning environments but the whole undergraduate experience. This particular work was a partnership endeavour with undergraduate students to seek science related volunteering opportunities and the potential for developing the skills for biomedical employability.The methodology in this case study was primarily action research with its iterative cycles. These were: identification and development of science or health volunteering opportunities, employers' perceptions of the use and value of such volunteering and articulation of the skills and qualities from such experiences.  One key 'data' output was a record of students' reflections and narratives as they contributed and drove the volunteering activity. Students maintained diaries of their experiences, skill development, personal growth and achievements and of working in partnership with staff and independently. Students' reflective blogs revealed several benefits and challenges and their approaches to address these illustrate their creativity, endurance and flexibility. This is a 'snap-shot' but presents 'voices' or 'narratives' of partnerships which enhance the students' learning (and teaching) experience. It also presents students' attitudes to volunteering and how they feel this contributes to their employability potential. Insights gained are invaluable to academic staff in appreciating the social constriction of learning and the extension of formal academic provision into the third sector

STUDENT, EDUCATOR, AND EMPLOYER PERSPECTIVES ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF A GRADUATE EMPLOYABILITY SKILLS APP

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graham Scott ◽  
Liz Boyle ◽  
Ewa Topolewska-Siedzik ◽  
Athanassios Jimoyiannis ◽  
Sobah Abbas-Petersen
Keyword(s):  
Employability Skills ◽  
Graduate Employability

"What God hath joined ...": Religious perspectives on marriage and divorce in late Victorian Canada

2009 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-25
Author(s):  
Marguerite Van Die
Keyword(s):  
Final Section ◽  
Community Networks ◽  
Lived Religion ◽  
Property Law ◽  
Religious Perspectives ◽  
Recent Debate ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Folk Tradition

Prompted by recent debate and legislation in Canada about the definition of "marriage," this article explores the impact of socio-economic change and stress upon marriage as an institution among the middle class in Victorian Canada. It does this through the lens of "lived religion" as defined by Robert Orsi and others, taking the form of a case study of a marital scandal involving a respected Presbyterian minister in Brantford, Ontario in 1883. This is placed within the wider context of competing definitions of marriage as found in folk tradition and community networks, in various ecclesiastical marriage liturgies, and in marriage, divorce and property law. In its final section it examines the contradictions, tensions and anxieties that surrounded these definitions in late Victorian Canada as a result of changes in people's experience of space and time. It concludes by briefly drawing attention to the nature of "lived religion" and its implications in redefining marriage within a society that today has become highly urbanized, secular and pluralistic.

scholarly journals Implications of Climate Change for Western Concepts of Ownership: Australian Case Study

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vanessa Johnston ◽  
Ben France-Hudson
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Land Ownership ◽  
Property Law ◽  
Land Uses ◽  
Environmental Objectives ◽  
Close Analysis ◽  
Australian Case

This article considers what Australian responses to climate change may teach us about the concept of ownership. Through a close analysis of laws aimed at encouraging specific land uses in order to mitigate emissions, it argues that these laws support the increasingly uncontroversial claim that ownership of estates or interests in land places obligations and responsibilities on owners to exercise the resulting rights for the benefit of others. However, although land ownership is flexible enough to support the environmental objectives of these laws, their failure to adequately accommodate the practicalities of ownership, such as anticipating the position of successors in title, increases the risk of conflict between owners of estates and interests in land, and compromises the ability of both environmental and property law regimes to achieve their intended objectives.

scholarly journals Graduates employability: An exploratory Literature Review

2021 ◽  
Vol 119 ◽  
pp. 05010
Author(s):  
Aniss Moumen ◽  
Nezha Mejjad
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Education And Training ◽  
Experimental Methodology ◽  
Development Model ◽  
Employability Skills ◽  
Career Management ◽  
Conceptual Frameworks ◽  
Graduate Attributes ◽  
Graduate Employability ◽  
And Training

This paper aims to present an exploratory literature review from the “Education and Training” journal indexed in Scopus, which has published 99 articles about “Graduate Employability” from 2005 to 2021. After cleaning, classifying and reading these articles with NVIVO; As a result, we have found that authors utilize: quantitative, qualitative, mixed and experimental methodology to address problems related to graduate attributes, graduate employability skills and constructs, enhance employability, self-employability perception and employers perceptions. Also, we have identified three famous conceptual frameworks to measure graduate employability: the Graduate Employability Development model [1], the CareerEDGE model [2] and the Career Management Employability model [3].

Developing Employability Skills in Information System Graduates

2021 ◽  
pp. 1331-1344
Author(s):  
Mohamad Osmani ◽  
Nitham M. Hindi ◽  
Vishanth Weerakkody
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Teaching Methods ◽  
Time Management ◽  
Employability Skills ◽  
Traditional Teaching ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Traditional Teaching Methods ◽  
Flipped Classrooms ◽  
Study Techniques

It is widely acknowledged that traditional teaching methods such as lectures, textbooks and case study techniques on their own are not adequate to improving the most in-demand employability skills for graduates. The aim of this article is to explore the potential impact that novel learning and teaching methods can have on improving the employability skills of Management Information System (MIS) graduates. To do so, the article reports the results of an experiment that was conducted with MIS students at the Faculty of Business and Economics in Qatar University, that combined lectures, case study-based workshops, flipped classrooms, presentations, problem-based learning and collaborative learning. The findings of this experiment suggest that known methods of classroom-based learning and teaching used for MIS graduates are failing to develop important graduate skills such as, critical thinking, time management and how to conduct research when faced with challenging problems.

scholarly journals Integrating technology into complex intervention trial processes: a case study

Trials ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cheney J. G. Drew ◽  
Vincent Poile ◽  
Rob Trubey ◽  
Gareth Watson ◽  
Mark Kelson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Complex Intervention ◽  
Intervention Trial ◽  
Integrating Technology

scholarly journals Enhancing graduate employability in product design

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 80-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Alan Watkins ◽  
Martin Higginson ◽  
Philip Richard Clarke
Keyword(s):  
Student Feedback ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Long Term Effects ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Graduate Employability ◽  
Action Research Approach ◽  
Internal Student ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present a case study to discuss approaches taken within a traditional undergraduate degree course to embed employability skills, encourage student uptake of sandwich placement and increase graduate prospects. A number of new initiatives are presented, including working with live industrial clients, formally preparing students for placement applications and the introduction of an externally facing student run design consortium. Alongside these new initiatives, details of the existing sandwich year provision are also considered and their effectiveness. Design/methodology/approach A case study-based action research approach presents changes to a specific undergraduate course, measuring the effectiveness over a four-year period using externally collected national Destination of Leavers in Higher Education (DLHE) data and internal student feedback to assess the long-term effects on employability. Findings The paper considers improvements in the graduate employability over the four year period covered, in particular, an increase in the graduate employability from 81 to 100 per cent and graduate prospects from 62.5 to 95.2 per cent for sandwich students. Data presented also considers additional student feedback correlating with an increase in their preparedness for employment. Practical implications The implications of undertaking the changes highlighted within this paper have been relatively straightforward, due to the small incremental nature of the changes and the opportunities available through the agencies within the university, and should be replicable at least in part at other HE institutions. Originality/value This paper considers the impact of employability initiatives undertaken on a single undergraduate course and how these have affected the employability of graduates over a four-year period, supported by student feedback both internally and externally through national feedback mechanisms. It is anticipated that this research would be beneficial for informing and guiding the development of employability on other undergraduate programmes.

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