Employability David Boughey University of Exeter Business School Student Recruitment and Admissions 2017 18 May 2017
“Follow the unlit path”
Many paths, well lit
Our Students – our Graduates VIET OLGA KATHY BA ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE BA IN ECONOMICS & FINANCE BA IN MANAGEMENT WITH (and then MSc Accounting & (and then MSc International LEADERSHIP WITH FRENCH Finance) Management) PROFICIENCY PWC Vietnam – transfer pricing EY – project mgt. Bloomberg – education tech.
View from Wilson A Review of Business-University Collaboration (2012) “Despite the undoubted advantages of undertaking a placement, there has been a decline in this practice in recent years from 9.5 percent of the total full ‐ time cohort in 2002/2003 to 7.2 percent in 2009/2010 . A small number of universities in the UK provide the majority of sandwich placements, in particular those with a tradition of sandwich courses: for example, Loughborough University, University of Surrey, University of Bath, Brunel University, Aston University, Bournemouth University and Ulster University” (Wilson, p. 38).
… been here before… The Times , 6 December 1969, p. 16.
What’s the Goal? DLHE? New DLHE? Employability? Careers? Reputation? Recruitment? Resilience? “If then a practical end must be assigned to a University course, I say it is that of training good members of society. Its art is the art of social life, and its end is fitness for the world. It neither confines its views to particular professions on the one hand, nor creates heroes or inspires genius on the other” (Newman, [1852] 1960, p. 134) .
Many paths, well lit
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