Reflections on a Whole University Approach to AI
How can universities adopt a holistic, university-wide approach to crafting their AI strategies?
Practicing What We Preach: The Challenges of Using Generative AI for Staff and Institutions
The emergence of free and easy to use AI platforms, such as ChatGPT, Gemini and CoPilot, offers new opportunities and challenges for Higher Education staff and institutions.
A Guide for Careers Professionals: New Skills and Competencies to Integrate Into Your Employability Offering
As the labour market undergoes transformation, so too do the skills required from new graduates. Explore the increasingly important competencies students will need to develop to become successful graduates and how careers services can support them to develop these attributes.
Designing, Co-Producing and Delivering New Modules: Considerations for Collaboration
In this article, Ash Odedra outlines a model for co-production in enhancing course delivery with insights from the Faculty of Business and Law at the Open University.
Beyond Embedding Employability: Towards the Development of Higher Skills and Attributes in Higher Education
It is an opportune moment to intentionally and explicitly embed the development of higher skills into academic curricula.
How Do You Focus Your Service Delivery? Enhancing Careers Guidance at Edge Hill University
In this article, Becka Colley-Foster explores how Edge Hill University have tailored service delivery to respond to the personal needs of individual students through a data-focused approach.
A New Approach to Graduate Employability Skills: Creative Education for a Changing World
This article provides an overview of the strategic approach being adopted by Arts University Plymouth, and outlines some of the activities being developed that aim to enhance our students’ employability skills and facilitate their progression into professional creative practice.
Key Considerations for Senior Leaders When Supporting Students with the Use of Generative AI
Senior leaders should be asking themselves: how can we best prepare students for an AI enabled world of work?
Understanding Student Decision Making: Insights from StudentCrowd
This article details the decision-making process of students. It outlines the stages of awareness, consideration, and decision, emphasising the role of research and peer reviews.
Lifelong Learning at the University of Leeds: Being Open, Reaching Out
This article explores how professionals at the Lifelong Learning Centre at the University of Leeds are striving to align marketing and outreach strategies for greater impact.
Unlocking the Power of Data Democratisation with ChatGPT in Higher Education: Reflections from the University of Law
Following on from our 2024 event on A Whole University Approach to Generative AI, Andy Ramsden explores data democratisation in higher education with insights from the University of Law.
UCEA Report Explores the Highs and Lows of Working in HE
A recent report, commissioned by UCEA via People Insight, explores what it’s really like to work in HE for professional services staff.
The Evolution of Careers Advisers as HE Professionals: Insights from the University of the West of England (UWE)
This article explores the shifting landscape of careers service delivery in higher education and reflects on how employability advisers are creating new professional identities within this context.
Queen’s University Belfast: Supporting Care Experienced Young People
This article explores how Queen’s University Belfast supports current care experienced students, as well as how we use outreach to raise aspirations from an early age.
Case Study: Diversity of Thought Employer Partnership Programme at the University of East London
The Diversity of Thought (DoT) programme was developed to drive aspiration and social mobility, and to address the key stages of the recruitment cycle where those from marginalised backgrounds were less likely to be represented.
The Rules of (Employer) Engagement
Explore the importance and practicalities of employer engagement for university careers and employability services, with insights from Queen Mary, University of London.
Moving Beyond Traditional Content Marketing with the University of East London
This article explores three content marketing initiatives and strategies employed by the content marketing team at the University of East London to engage with 3 core audiences: Gen Z, Mature Audiences and Gen Alpha.
The Route to Employability for Doctoral Graduates: The Picture from the UK and Overseas
Dr Gillian Houston explores some of the challenges and opportunities for doctoral employability in the UK and elsewhere.
Integrating An Institutional Language of Skills into Teaching and Assessment
Many institutions are developing a skills language or framework: once they are built, how can they be used?
Student Accommodation: An Exciting and Rewarding Career for Graduates?
We have graduates at our fingertips, academic partners at the ready, and countless opportunities for apprenticeships and interns, so why aren’t we shouting about our presence?