ACTION PLAN Item No. Student Employability College Lead Progress in College Action Required By Whom/When Comments Complete Partially Not in Place 1.1 Active engagement from Directors, Academic Board, Student Representatives and other staff members. MT Active engagement from all stakeholders as mentioned above. Consecutive meetings have taken place in the support of agenda and action plan being finalised. Finalise Action Plan Academic Board 23/02/2016 Meetings complete and all actions approved by SMT and Academic Board. 1.2 Management and co-ordination arrangements being implemented to share information across the relevant curriculum areas within Grafton College, with a single point of contact for operational delivery of Employability related activity. MT Training session planned for the entire team on Student Employability Training Session MT 26/02/2016 A comprehensive awareness session was conducted by MT for the entire team of Grafton on Student Employability. Rationale, objectives, action plan and responsibilities of team were
discussed. Power point presentation of the session was later emailed to all team members for record purposes. The list includes 30 top management consulting firms, 30 top recruiting forms, 30 charities, local banks, MP’s and local council contacts. 1.3 Take employers as an external reference point into account in programme design and approval processes; MT X Links would be established with local employers who would then be involved with the design of curriculum and courses. As we teach a set course designed by Edexcel, we would involve employers in the general mode of delivery and skills training for our students. For example students would make presentations in groups based on real life corporate MT This would be an ongoing process and would start from 24/02/2016 A list of companies is created and given to Phoebe who is working on extracting the contact details from respective websites. These companies would be then contacted by MT and invitations would be sent to sought their support/involvement in the process. The deadline for this process is end March 2016.
scenarios and local employers would be invited to sit for feedback during presentations 1.4 Get employment record for Grafton students who have become employed after completing their studies and obtain feedback from them and their employers; MT Fatima wold retrieve these details and forward to MT for action. Employers would be contacted for feedback on the quality of work they are getting from our students. On the basis of feedback, Gap analysis would be established and such gaps would be covered in future curriculum development and trainings. MT 24/02/2016 Fatima would give this record to MT by 8th March 2016. 1.5 Create a Student Alumni (embed it in social media for sharing student’s experiences etc.) MT X Student Alumni would be a platform to engage current students with the ones who have left and obtained employment. Alumni meetings would be arranged with the Student MT Student Reps 25/02/2016 Launch of Student Alumni is scheduled for 9th March 2016.
local council contacts. 1.7 Introduce short courses on different employability themes and job related skills –skills that are high in demand and form the core of job seeking and current employment trends. MT The current curriculum and teaching methods are compatible with the industry standards Short courses would be introduced for current students such as; Preparing to enter the Labour Market; Career Planning Course; Writing Skills Course; Certificate in Personal and Professional Skills; Basic skills; These course would be delivered by industry experts and subject specialists. We would either get courses from other awarding bodies or create them in house and seek endorsement for the same. MT April 2016 Design Certificate in Professional Development for students. Course would be ready for endorsement by first week of April 2016. Course would be endorsed by either AVA or Qualifi and both are Ofqual regulated.
Essay Portfolio Training records CV Interview Presentation Poster Higher Education Achievement Report (HEAR) would be implemented in Grafton College where a single comprehensive record of a learner’s achievement would be kept. successful completion of the course. participation in College led employability promoting activities, completion of short courses offered by College etc.,. Such Award would help our students in order to stand a good chance in job interviews on basis of their extra efforts made during their time while studying. 2.0 Launch Student Union and an Entrepreneurship Society in Grafton College; MT X Student Union would boost the Student experience and confidence and would allow them to participate in the events of their own choice. Key activities and achievements of student’s would be recorded on HEAR and may qualify towards STAR Award. Entrepreneurship MT April 2016 Society to be launched by end March 2016. The SOP’s and protocols of the society are being written. Deadline end March 2016.
Society wold be a student led and College driven platform that would promote Entrepreneurship skills among the students through various activities such as arranging workshops, external visits, seminars by successful entrepreneurs, opportunities for students to start their own business etc. 2.1 Launch Business Incubation Centre MT X Grafton College would launch a Business Incubation Centre for its students where; Students with a business plan would be identified; Selected students would be provided with MT Academic Board Terms and conditions would be drafted by end April; Launch July 2016 To be launched in the first week of April. Application forms and website link would be live by end March 2016.
in house facilities to bring their idea/plan to life under supervision of in house and external experts; Soon as the idea/plan takes a shape, students would be encouraged and facilitated to take such plans for funding to various platforms. 2.2 Identify Insight Days and facilitate students to attend such events MT X offered and advertised by employers aimed at first or second year undergraduate students; MT On going MT being a CIPD member would MT ongoing
2.3 Take students to employment related workshops and seminars such as CIPD recruitment and interviewing skills conferences. In addition company visits may also be arranged for students where they would gain the practical experience of organizational culture and work dynamics. Such visits would be led by employer reps. MT X organize entry of our students in CIPD seminars and conferences. CIPD exhibits seminars every year related with employment related skills and job market requirements. Visits to some local would be arranged.