Embedding Employability Framework
Identify
Students, employers and wider society increasingly value the ability to articulate skills as well as knowledge, as this helps people apply their learning in different contexts. Whilst skills are often already developed through the curriculum, they are not always visible to students. By making employability and skills more visible, you can help students better understand what they are learning, why it matters and how it may support their future opportunities.
Identify is the first stage of the Embedding Employability Framework because it focuses on changing thinking before changing curriculum. Rather than starting with new activities or enhancements, we take an extracted approach to employability that focuses on identifying, recognising and making explicit the employability and skills already present within your course. This helps ensure that any future activity is purposeful, relevant to your discipline and built on existing strengths.
Identify also creates the foundation for the later stages of the Framework. Having a clear understanding of the employability and skills value of your course makes it easier to surface skills to students, create meaningful learning experiences and support students to recognise and articulate their development.
Our approach
You'll work with your College Employability & Skills Lead to explore the employability and skills already embedded within your course. You bring expertise in your discipline, your curriculum and your students. We bring expertise in employability learning, transferable skills development and helping students connect their learning to the future.
The process provides dedicated time and space for reflection, allowing you to consider your course from a different perspective, recognise existing strengths and explore opportunities for enhancement where appropriate.
What do you need to do?
Through structured consultancy with your College Employability & Skills Lead, you'll identify the disciplinary and transferable skills students have opportunities to develop within your course and create a clear employability and skills value statement. Together, you'll agree which transferable skills will provide a focus for the later Embedding Employability Framework stages and explore opportunities to make employability and skills more visible and intentional within the student experience.
What resources and support are provided at this stage?
- The University of Glasgow Transferable Skills Language – a practical resource that provides a shared language for discussing transferable skills with students in a consistent way
- University guidance on course and programme design and approval, which includes writing aims, intended learning outcomes and designing assessments
- Consultation and support from your College Employability & Skills Lead
