Extra and intra-curricular work-based learning can be a powerful means of fostering the increasing challenge of employability (Morley et al 2018 Radclyffe-Thomas et al 2018). However the potential of peer learning is often overlooked in its ability to catalyse students' personal and team-building development. Using case studies from Ecology and Fashion this workshop introduces 'curriculum design for employability (CDE)' to identify how students’ employability skills can be embedded in their programme design either as part of the curriculum or as an extracurricular activity through a peer learning activity. Delegates will have the opportunity to apply the CDE criteria to their own programme design and critique its worth as a curriculum design tool.
