LTA Connect: Employer Engagement in Curriculum Development and Employability

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Session Outline

The webinar will be twofold:

Firstly it will explore the prominence of academic and employer/industry collaboration, and its importance in preparing students and graduates for the world of work. It will outline key initiatives in place and examples from across Scotland.

Secondly, it will explore the role of the Curriculum Development and Employer Engagement Team, who have been put in place to support employer engagement and curriculum development across the university’s subject networks. Here we will give examples of work we’ve done to support curriculum development and enhance employer engagement, and facilitation of employability workshops led, or in collaboration with, employers.  We will also discuss the impact on student opportunity and development and some feedback from staff who have successfully engaged with the team.

Presenter Bios

Alana MacPherson

Alana is part of a new team at the University of the Highlands & Islands, focusing on Curriculum Development and Employer Engagement. She works specifically within the Business, Management and Leisure subject network, supporting academic staff at HE level across the university partnership.

Alana’s background is in marketing, specifically supporting rebranding projects – the most recent was following the regionalisation of Scotland’s colleges and the merger between Banff & Buchan College and Aberdeen College to become North East Scotland College (NESCol).

Alana was made a permanent member of staff at NESCol and given additional responsibilities to support planning and quality functions at the College, specifically the ES and SFC Action Learning Project pilot and curriculum development planning. She has a joint BA (Hons) International Business with Marketing from the University of Strathclyde (graduating in 2012) and has recently enrolled on UHI’s MSc Sustainable Rural Development – albeit working through it slowly, one module at a time!

Audrey Decou

Audrey is part of a new team at the University of the Highlands & Islands, focusing on Curriculum Development and Employer Engagement. She works specifically within the Science, Technology and the Environment subject network, supporting academic staff at HE level across the university partnership.

Audrey’s background is in Geology having worked for 6 years at CASP, in Cambridge, as a field geologist and then as Project leader of the East Greenland Project. During that time Audrey has worked with numerous universities and a range of stakeholders from the oil industry. She has a BSc (Hons) in Earth Sciences from the Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont Ferrand (France) and a PhD in Geosciences from the Georg-August Universität, Göttingen (Germany).

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