Roundtable: How can education providers improve the employability prospects of learners?

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This roundtable invites you to listen and share examples of effective practice in your organisation regarding how peers have approached employability from the perspective of: - What does the employment market look like? - What does an ‘employable learner’ look like? - How can educators incorporate relevant employability skills into the curriculum? - How can technology for employability be embedded into course delivery? - How to ensure organisational support for employability? This event was held on 9 June 2021.

Education

Wednesday 9 June
11:00 – 12:00
• Dr Esther Barrett, Subject Specialist: Digital
Practice, Jisc
• Stephen Isherwood, Chief Executive, Institute of
Student Employers
• Gordon Duffy-McGhie, Director: Teaching,
Learning & Student Development, Middlesbrough
College
• Mark Davies, Operations Manager Adult
Engagement, North Wales Training
Roundtable: How can education providers
improve the employability prospects of
learners?

Speakers:
Stephen Isherwood
Chief Executive
Institute of Student Employers

What does an
employable learner
look like?

Gordon Duffy-McGhie
Director: Teaching, Learning & Student Development
Middlesbrough College

Ideation Focusing our discussions onkeythemes and taking our ideas directly to the students.

CCF College Partnership
(North East)
All CCF Digital
Resources will be made
available through DfE
Website.
Middlesbrough College
‘Construct Platform’
launching 31st March
2021.
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/college-collaboration-fund-ccf

Mark Davies
Operations Manager, Adult Engagement
North Wales Training

Panel:
Stephen Isherwood
Gordon Duffy-McGhie
Mark Davies

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