Employability Through the Curriculum

Tertiary Education and Management - Tập 8 - Trang 261-276 - 2002
Peter T. Knight1, Mantz Yorke2
1The Open University, UK
2Liverpool John Moores University, UK

Tóm tắt

Employability, it is argued, can be embedded inany academic subject in higher educationwithout compromising core academic freedoms. Astrategy for curriculum change is described,which is sensitive to both governmentalexpectations and traditional academic values –and is relatively easy to use. The strategyprovides a way of preserving legitimatediversity in response to the homogenisingtendencies of the human capital policies thatare influential in many advanced economies.

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