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Employability Symposium 2024: Distilling The 3Es

This event, by way of oral presentations and workshops, will provide a space to discuss and share latest practices in embedding employability among a network of peers.

Overview

For this year’s Employability Symposium, we’ll be focusing on the 3Es of employability, enterprise, and entrepreneurship. We know there is a lot of great work across the sector, distilling this and creating a what works evidence base is essential to enhance student success.

In order to do this, we believe the sector must work collaboratively. We call for discipline advocates to champion the work within and beyond your institution and urge you to replicate and test many of the fabulous examples that have been shared across the years to test the efficacy of the approaches.

While continuing to share good practice, this is also a call to action to share what doesn’t work. We know that there is a lot of good practice out there, with many approaches accelerating learning and supporting employability provision. However, perhaps there are those you have tried or replicated that proved impossible to scale? Perhaps some were financially impossible to support? Others may not be practical or proved to be inaccessible, others might simply have proven to be a waste of time. There is nothing wrong with failure but failing to learn from this is a gap that we wish to address in this symposium.

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Date: 25 April 2024
Venue: Horizon, Leeds

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Facilitator

Stuart Norton, PFHEA

Senior Consultant, Education
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Advance HE
Stuart Norton
Stuart has over 18 years’ experience within higher education with extensive experience in designing and developing strategic, institutional-wide change. In his role as Senior Consultant, Education at Advance HE, he focuses on both thought leadership and providing evidence-based solutions to support institutions, educators and students.

Fay Short

Professor
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Bangor University
Fay Short
Fay Short is a Professor in the School of Psychology and Sport Science at Bangor University and a Chartered Psychologist with the British Psychological Society. She is also a qualified therapist, and a registered member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy and an Accredited Registrant of the National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society.

Professor Roger Dalrymple

Deputy Director (Education and Student Experience)
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University of Oxford
Professor Roger Dalrymple
Deputy Director (Education and Student Experience) at Oxford University's Department for Continuing Education. Senior Research Fellow in Education at Regent's Park College, Oxford and Visiting Professor in Education at Oxford Brookes University.
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Symposium aims

The aims of this symposium are to:

  • Provide an open and supportive environment within which to share and discuss contemporary practice and initiatives for the 3Es in teaching and learning.
  • Provide evidence-informed examples and ideas for university staff and students to address current challenges around the 3Es in higher education.
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Who should attend?

Teaching practitioners including: heads of departments, academic programme leaders and developers, all lecturing staff, learning technologists and staff focused on employability including those in careers departments, enterprise teams and with employer liaison roles.

Join the conversation: Tweet your thoughts and comments about the Employability Symposium at #EmpSymp24.

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Programme

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Employability Symposium 2024 Programme

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Abstract

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Employability Symposium 2024 - Abstract

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