The document discusses ways that employers can be involved in curriculum development to help meet their expectations. It outlines eight types of engagement: employers lecturing; providing curriculum advice; work-based learning; work-related learning; mentoring; employability modules; accreditation programs; and sponsorship. Each engagement strategy is described along with benefits for students and universities, such as keeping curriculum relevant, providing practical experience, and improving employment outcomes.
28. MEETING THE EXPECTATIONS OF EMPLOYERS
United States
- A very diversified system
- Workforce development
- Employment value of a degree
- Emphasis on STEM subjects
- Macro-efficiency
- Private higher educa>on
Sweden
- Capacity funding
- Macro-efficiency and labour market relevance
Belgium
- Labour market relevance
- STEM-ac>on plan
- Employability skills through work-based learning
- Structure of HE programmes
- Macro-efficiency
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England
- Strategically important and vulnerable subjects
(SIVS)
- Students at the heart of the system
- Labour market relevance
- A new policy framework for HEFCE
- Macro-efficiency
Germany
- Labour Market Relevance of Higher Educa>on
- Monitoring supply and demand
- Steering the rela>onship between higher educa>on
and the labour market
- Steering on the federal level
- Steering on the Federal State’s Level
- Steering at higher educa>ons’ level
Finland
- High ambi>ons
- Graduate supply and demand
- HE policy regarding labour market relevance
- New governance and funding model
- Macro-efficiency