Enhancing Graduate Employability: in Business and Management, Hospitality, Leisure, Sport, Tourism

Employability is currently an important theme for all higher education institutions. This book will be of value to anyone interested in employability, or involved in curriculum development in higher education. The case studies are written by lecturers from the business, hospitality, leisure, sport & tourism communities, and demonstrate best practice in embedding employability into the curriculum. This book was commissioned by the Higher Education Academy Subject Centres for Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism (HLST), and Business, Management, Accountancy and Finance (BMAF), with funding from HEFCE. Hosted by Oxford Brookes University, HLST and BMAF are two of the 24 national subject centres who work collaboratively to enhance the student experience by brokering the sharing of good practice across the UK.

Table of Contents:
Introduction Rob Ward vi 1 Bournemouth University's employability strategy Jacqui Gush 1 2 Programmes that work for people who work: a process-based model for part-time management studies Gail Sanders 9 3 Embedding employability in the curriculum: enhancing students' career-planning skills Angela Maher 19 4 Integrating and embedding employability Graham Holden 29 5 A Nottingham Business School degree to enhance graduate employability Vanessa Knowles 37 6 Preparing Aston Business School students for placement Helen Higson and Etta Parkes 42 7 Encouraging Aston Business School students to reflect on their employment experience Helen Higson and Nicola Bullivant 52 8 Embedding employability at London South Bank University: a process of evolution or design? Helen George 60 9 Work-based learning in the University of Ulster: embedding employability in business studies Gillian Armstrong, Una McMahon-Beattie and Kate Greenan 71 10 Integrating employability and management skills into the tourism curriculum at Leeds Metropolitan University David Hind 78 11 Embedding employability and making it explicit within the learning experience: the language routes at Sheffield Hallam University Gudrun Myers 84 12 The leisure professional: using online learning and employer-involvement to develop reflection and employability skills John Buswell and Angela Tomkins 93 13 Enhancing student employability: a New Zealand case study of cooperative education in sport Jenny Fleming and Lesley Ferkins 100 14 Establishing virtual working within the business curriculum Mary Malcolm 108 15 Placements and employability in sport and leisure management Marc Keech 116 16 Enhancing travel, tourism and hospitality management graduates' employability Bridget Major 125 17 Enhancing enterprise, entrepreneurship and employability through PDP Karen Bill and Will Bowen-Jones 133 18 Enhancing student employability through a team exercise on a visitor-attraction management module Debra Enzenbacher 140 19 Students' awareness of the importance of transferable skills for employability Petia Petrova and Dorota Ujma 148 20 UWIC Academy of Athletics: addressing employability within the total student experience Sean Power 155 Glossary 161 Index 164

About the Author :
The editors Nina Becket is Assistant Director of the Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism Subject Centre, responsible for leading the network's academic development work. Prior to taking on this role, Nina was Undergraduate Programme Director in the Department of Hotel and Restaurant Management at Oxford Brookes. Patsy Kemp has work experience within the public and private sectors, in business training, language teaching, project management and management consultancy. As Academic Developer for the Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism Subject Centre, she works to support practitioners in their roles within Higher Education. Contributors: Gillian Armstrong -- Karen Bill -- Will Bowen-Jones -- Nicola Bullivant -- John Buswell -- Debra Enzenbacher -- Lesley Ferkins -- Jenny Fleming -- Helen George -- Kate Greenan -- Jacqui Gush -- Helen Higson -- David Hind -- Graham Holden -- Marc Keech -- Vanessa Knowles -- Bridget Major -- Mary Malcolm -- Una McMahon-Beattie -- Angela Maher -- Gudrun Myers -- Etta Parkes -- Petia Petrova -- Sean Power -- Gail Thompson -- Angela Tomkins -- Rob Ward -- Dorota Ujma