#Employability

This is essential reading, but it isn't news. In 2013, @BobEaglestone and @kovesi1 called it. https://www.timeshighereducation.com/features/english-why-the-discipline-may-not-be-too-big-to-fail/2008473.articleI was working on employability at the
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This one study is more than enough to repeatedly say, TN produces shit engineers & the quality of Education in TN...I have been saying this for 2 to 3 years
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A PhD does not guarantee you a job, true. But it should make you employable within the university sector. Currently this is not the case for most ECRs. & many
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If you’ve passed the CV review stage to interview stage, then the recruiter already likes something about you.The interview stage is where you can then convince them that you’re the
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Of all the recruitment processes and job interviews I’ve been involved in, I think this is the most significant one. That’s probably why I snapped awake at 4am. I did
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I get so igoigo at people who are ashamed of the work their parents do esp if it’s something like maintenance/factory work. I can guarantee these parents don’t want their
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A child’s guide to #university: Once upon a time, most school leavers started work as trainees, apprentices, or office juniors. The pay was rubbish. They made tea. Got sent for
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What if you say: looked after small children / cared for poorly parents / self-isolated for 12 weeks because of underlying condition / tried to avoid attack from an abusive
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Great to see detailed examples now on Kickstart webpage for how govt will assess whether jobs are additional, and the employability support for young ppl. Both are key.Missing piece tho
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Excluding Adonis! We’re not saying students deserve refunds because academics aren’t working incredibly hard/haven’t done amazing things to deliver innovative teaching online. What we are saying is this isn’t the
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On this Twitter, people got teaching jobs, book review, website dev, software testing, virtual assistant, content writing, copywriting remote jobs from my tweets. Same tl that some persons got FT
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So it turns out our whole "economy", our complex ecosystems of organised work, are a really fragile house of cards that relies on people being 'free' to work while their
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It all started with Usman Raheem Khan- the former Mercy Corps head in K. He held the first "de-radicalize or divert this “Conflict Generation" event called One Young Kashmir in
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This is my personal perspective about racism. It’s not fully formed, because I’m doing my best to listen, learn & empathize. I’ll be honest in saying that I’m not sure
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Excellent analysis from @tonywilsonIES on UC levels & a call to moblise employment support services. Which made me think: Will the supply-side thinking that underpins 'employability' programmes need a huge
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The HE restructuring regime is predictably awful, subjecting institutions to predictably ideological, short-sighted and damaging changes that could leave our HE landscape diminished. Some (probably naive) thoughts on things institutions
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