The document discusses collaborative approaches to curriculum development and program review. It aims to help a program team prepare for periodic review, enhance graduate development and employability, and thoroughly embed these within the undergraduate curriculum. The engagement process involves 4 steps: 1) defining and evaluating current employability opportunities, 2) negotiating program-specific graduate attributes, 3) identifying and describing pedagogies of employability, and 4) full team review of the entire program to ensure employability opportunities are well coordinated and scaffolded to optimize student development. The emphasis is on developing students' critical, reflective abilities to empower and enhance the learner, rather than just enabling employment.

1. Curriculum Development
Exploring Collaborative Approaches to
Programme Approval and Review
Dr. Mark Anderson
1st March 2016

2. Goal
To help a Programme Team prepare for periodic review;
To enhance graduate development and employability within the programme;
To thoroughly embed these within the undergraduate curriculum.

3. Engagement
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4. 1Defining and evaluating current employability opportunities;
Negotiating programme-specific graduate attributes;
Identifying and describing pedagogies of employability.
Successful Graduate
Rich Pictures

5. 2
Mapping graduate attributes and pedagogies of
employability across the student experience
Snakes and Ladders

6. 3
Learning design workshop to embed pedagogies of
employability at the course level
Viewpoints
ABC

7. 4
Full team review of entire programme to ensure that
employability opportunities are well coordinated, and
scaffolded to optimise student development

8. 1Defining and evaluating current employability opportunities
Negotiating programme-specific graduate attributes
Identifying and describing pedagogies of employability
Successful Graduate
Rich Pictures

10. Employability is more than about developing attributes,
techniques or experience just to enable a student to get
a job, or to progress within a current career. It is about
learning and the emphasis is less on ‘employ’ and more
on ‘ability’. In essence, the emphasis is on developing
critical, reflective abilities, with a view to empowering
and enhancing the learner.
(Harvey, 2003)
Harvey, L. (2003) Transitions from Higher Education to Work: A briefing paper prepared by Lee Harvey (Centre for Research
and Evaluation, Sheffield Hallam University), with advice from ESECT and LTSN Generic Centre colleagues.
Available at http://bit.ly/oeCgqW. Last accessed: 27th February 2016.