Articles and Online Resources
Student Employability Profiles (PDF, 3,088KB)
This guide offers an overview of 50 discipline profiles. It suggests practical applications for their use in curriculum design, employability skills development, stakeholder communication, and promoting subject value to students, parents, and employers.
Higher Education Academy. (2006). Student employability profiles. Higher Education Academy.
This Advanced HE report offers comprehensive guidance on embedding employability within learning, teaching, and assessment. It argues for an intentional, whole-curriculum approach to employability rather than treating it as an optional or extracurricular concern.
Advance HE. (2014). Pedagogy for employability. Advance HE.
This Jisc toolkit provides guidance on embedding digital skills and technology-supported learning into employability development. It offers practical examples of how universities can leverage digital tools to support students' career readiness and workplace capabilities.
Jisc. (2025). Employability toolkit: Using digital tools to develop learners’ employability skills. Jisc.
Embedding employability through cross-faculty learning
This Wonkhe article argues that transversal employability skills should be explicitly embedded across degree programmes through cross-faculty collaboration. It challenges HEIs to rethink assessment and learning design to better support graduate success.
Wonkhe. (2023). Embedding employability through cross-faculty learning. Wonkhe.
Blogs and Podcasts
QAA: Embedding Employability
This podcast examines the challenges of embedding employability into curricula and highlights strategies and support for educators and students.
Castle, K (Host). Embedding employability [Audio podcast}. QAA Membership Podcast.
https://www.buzzsprout.com/2126943/episodes/14360549
Advance HE: The 3E Podcast
Advance HE have shared four podcasts related to the 3E's (Employability, Enterprise and Entrepreneurship) and how career professionals can implement them within their offer to students and graduates.
Beaumont, E (Host). (2023). The 3E Podcast [Audio Podcast]. Advance HE.
https://www.advance-he.ac.uk/knowledge-hub/3e-podcast
Journal Articles
Lowe, T. (2020). An evaluation of a translation intervention to raise awareness of employability skills gained from higher education. Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education.
https://doi.org/10.47408/jldhe.vi18.576
Lowe, T. (2023) Embedding employability into the curriculum: Five recommendations to improve widening participation students' graduate employability. Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education, (26).
https://doi.org/10.47408/jldhe.vi26.925
Moxey, M., & Simpkin, E. (2021). Harnessing the potential of exracurricular opportunities to enhance graduate employability in higher education. Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education, (21).
https://doi.org/10.47408/jldhe.vi21.631
Pardo-Garcia, Cristina & Barac, Maja. (2020). Promoting Employability in Higher Education: A Case Study on Boosting Entrepreneurship Skils. Sustainability, (12).
https://doi.org/10.3390/su12104004
Römgens, I., Scoupe, R., & Beausaert, S. (2019). Unravelling the concept of employability, bringing together research on employability in higher education and the workplace. Studies in Higher Education, 45(12), 2588-2603.
https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2019.1623770