Employability: what has MMU been doing?
The Embedding Employability Project provided impetus for a number of initiatives, and Employability now a key focus in faculty plans, programme review, unit descriptors, AME. The full Embedding Employability project report is available here. The Appendices are here, many of them are available individually from the specific links in the list below.
Below is a list of MMU initiatives around employability, linked to relevant parts of this Employability web site and original documents.
Alumni Engagement StrategyThe Alumni and Development office is helping departments to set up Departmental Alumni Networks.These can aid the achievement of the MMU Employability Curriculum by: monitoring alumni career activity to feed into articulation of graduate prospects, inviting alumni to become involved in student mentoring projects and giving talks to students, aiding employer engagement by asking alumni in position as employers to provide placements and share sector and professional knowledge. |
Community of Practice - PDP and EmployabilityThe Centre for Learning and Teaching (CeLT) has established a number of Communities of Practice (CoPs) in themed areas in Learning and Teaching including PDP and placements. The CoPs aim to provide opportunities for learning through networking, discussion and dissemination, advice and encouragement and opportunities for development and evaluation of L and T activities across MMU. find out about the PDP and Employability Community of Practice |
Employability Curriculum FrameworkThe Framework is a process designed to embed employability skills in curriculum development. It defines a set of employability-focused graduate outcomes which MMU graduates should have achieved on completion of their programme of study and sets out 5 requirements that programme teams must fulfill if their programme is to achieve 'MMU Employability Curriculum' status. |
Graduate Teaching Assistants FrameworkCovers the employment of full time PG Research students as Graduate Teaching Assistants, and the development of the MMU Postgraduate Passport which will help them use the skills gained to attract employers. |
Jobs4StudentsOn-campus employment opportunities for students which can be a useful way of developing employability skills. A set of guidelines for MMU staff employing students through the scheme has been developed. |
PDP reviewA review of Personal Development Planning activity in MMU was undertaken in 2008. The review, along with QAA guidelines etc is available on this website. |
Placements: Institutional Code of PracticeThe ICP for placement and work based learning sets out
the minimum requirements for students, placement providers and MMU staff engaging with placement or work based activities. The ICP is available on the Placements in the Curriculum page |
Placements: audit tool To help you to ensure you have met all the requirements of the Institutional Code of Practice an audit tool has been developed providing a checklist for placement provision. The audit tool is available on the Placements in the Curriculum page |
Professional Passport The MMUPP is a Personal Development Planning process which provides students with an opportunity to demonstrate they have reached a high standard in showcasing their employability skills. |
Student Employability StrategyA five year Strategy for Employability was agreed by Academic Board 2008/9 to guide the direction of the committment in the MMU Learning, Teaching and Assessment Strategy to 'Develop World Class Professionals'. download Student Employability Strategy | Student Employability Action Plan |
Threshold StandardsThe MMU Threshold Standards define minimum levels of provision that students can expect in all aspects of their learning experience, including support for development of employability skills. The relevant section is reproduced below: 3.5 Support for development of student employability
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