Enterprise & Employability

We believe that enterprise in education is an approach to, and a context for, learning that promotes good teaching practice and makes connections with the world of work. Our objective is to equip all candidates with the positive mind-set to achieve their personal goals and ambitions.

At the centre of Enterprise and Employability, we deliver:

  • Graduate Skills Development And Scholarship Programmes
  • Enterprise And Employability Programmes
  • Modern Languages

GRADUATE SKILLS DEVELOPMENT AND SCOLARSHIP PROGRAMMES

Graduate skills development and scholarship programmes

In an increasingly competitive job market, leaving university with a good degree may not be enough on its own to land graduates that first job. Increasingly employers are looking for a broad range of skills and experience from their graduate employees.

KEY FOCUS AREAS

1. Work related learning
2. Career opportunities
3. Academic Skills
4. Extra curricular

“The Graduate Skills Programme has been designed to ensure that learners can enhance their work effectiveness through personal and professional development.”

Enterprise and Employability programmes

Our enterprise and employability programmes enabler participants are active in the learning process and develop transferrable skills that can be applied across sectors. Through these programs we aim to:

  • provide opportunities for students to think and act in enterprising ways
  • provide a clear focus on core and employability skills, and the ability to transfer these to different contexts, in particular, the world of work
  • provide opportunities for work related experiences, both in and out with the classroom
  • adopt enterprising learning and teaching approaches
  • provide opportunities for students to develop skills such as problem solving, decision making and evaluating risks

Languages

Our modern languages training aims to develop learners’ language and employability skills, through studying one or two modern languages in practical and relevant contexts for life and work. Language training provides candidate with:

  • opportunities to continue to acquire and develop the attributes and capabilities of the four capacities as well as skills for learning, skills for life and skills for work.
  • knowledge and skills to communicate, be critical thinkers, develop cultural awareness, and be creative
  • an opportunity to develop personal, interpersonal and team working skills and independent learning
  • understanding of their own and other cultures; and to explore the interconnected nature of languages