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Computing Graduate Employability: Sharing Practice

Computing is one of the largest subject areas in Higher Education and is taught in almost every institution graduating around 9 000 students every year. Yet Computing graduates are recorded as having the highest unemployment rates for all subjects six months after graduation: although the numbers of unemployed graduates at six months varies widely between institutions from 2% to 26%.

The aims of this report are to expose the depth complexity and richness of employability practices in the sector and to share those practices more widely. The report places practices in a comparative context so that departments may learn “what works” from each other. It draws on research gathered from over fifty Higher Education institutions in a series of workshops focus groups and interviews. It is never easy to find a way of presenting such detailed and complex data. We have chosen to foreground participants’ voices and to organise the report by the common employability challenges that academics face. Within that structure we present clusters of similar practice that appear in several institutions and a series of showcases that provide rich detail of specific interventions.

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02/09/2016
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