This guide is part of the Higher Education Academy Learning and Employability Guide series 1. The Learning and Employability series is primarily intended for staff in higher education institutions who are considering the enhancement of student employability.
This Guide is for academics who are responsible for programmes and who need to ensure that those programmes make a clear contribution to student employability. It is also for those who work with programme leaders particularly for educational developers. It is probably goes into more detail than senior policy-makers want.
The main idea is that employers value achievements that we find it hard to assess in traditional ways. The argument is that we need a more differentiated programme-level approach to assessment. This involves disrupting the assumption that assessment has to be about measurement and numbering and substituting the view that assessment is about judgement which can take many forms.
