Tag Archives: employability

Law Students and Extra-Curricular Activities in a Time of Pandemic

Posted on 28th April 2022 by Dawn Evelyn

By Andrew Gilbert and Jessica Giles This blog arises out of our SCiLAB-funded project, ‘An Exploration of the Use of Extra-Curricular Activities by Law Students and Alumni’, which we carried out during 2020-21. The project aimed to explore Open University (OU) … Continue reading →

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Badge attitude

Posted on 6th April 2022 by Dawn Evelyn

By Terry O’Sullivan CREDIT Peter Keegan / Hulton Archive / Getty Images / Universal Images Group  Rights Managed / For Education Use Only Have you joined the badgerati yet? Are you one of the growing number of people whose social media profiles, electronic … Continue reading →

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Nurturing employability at British universities – entrepreneurship education as a vehicle

Posted on 21st January 2022 by Dawn Evelyn

By Carolin Decker-Lange (The Open University) and Knut Lange (Royal Holloway, University of London) Since the 1980s, British universities have been under increasing scrutiny, accompanied by changes in regulation, funding, governmental surveillance and performance appraisal in research and teaching. As … Continue reading →

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Three reasons why we should think about employability in entrepreneurship education

Posted on 8th March 2021 by Dawn Evelyn

By Carolin Decker-Lange Many people think that the purpose of entrepreneurship education at universities is to help students to start their own ventures. This is not fully in line with the QAA, the UK’s Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education, which defines entrepreneurship education as “the … Continue reading →

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