Regent's University London (RUL) have established a range of strategies and plans to enhance student and graduate employability. A primary aim is to further embed employability-related activities and initiatives that cater for our diverse international community. An area of focus for the initiative concerns employer engagement in curriculum activities and how this can best be achieved. The initiative as part of the HEA’s SEP has provided an opportunity to review existing employer engagement activities at RUL assess and identify particularly fruitful activities such as the expansion across degree programmes of the use of consultancy projects as an alternative to the well-established dissertation.
A key aim has been to enhance learning and teaching in part through employer engagement in selected portions of the curriculum. The objective has been to further enhance the existing provision of student support in this field through the even deeper integration of employability-related initiatives into the curriculum of degree programmes across RUL by sharing that best practice with the project network group and to learn from other successes in the higher education sector as a foundation for new initiatives that will help further enhance graduate employability both here at RUL and across the higher education sector. An area of particular focus has been on how best to achieve employer-engagement in curriculum activities. Various strands of activity have been identified as best practice including employer placements internships consultancy projects and liaisons with the relevant industry sectors.
