Teaching Excellence Framework

2. ‘Destination of leavers is a key TEF; what should
institutions’ do to better prepare students for
graduate employment’
Whose responsibility is employability at University? (students?,
lecturers? University? Careers teams? Student Union?)
What are the key employability issues for students at university?
Should universities publish a breakdown of data about graduate
employment rates? (women, BME, Widening Participation,
International students) Yes? No?
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What do you think are the main activities and initiatives that students
can and should engage with at university to maximise their
employability?
How can universities measure and submit their own information about
how students develop skills to maximise their job outcomes ?
How could the future replacement for the DLHE survey better provide
an opportunity to capture wider “successful” outcomes beyond job
type and salary

4. Current approaches
Group Task
How do you currently address employability? What do you do?
What do these activities seek to develop in students?
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5. Measurement
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Group Task
How would you measure these
activities?
Increase in industry links / collaborations / activity
Number and percentage of students engaged in work-
related learning (e.g. placements, internships,
simulations, case studies and live briefs)
Percentage of students that have access to placements
Percentage of students accessing careers support (e.g.
core metric) at level 4/5/6/7
Survey results (i.e. Engagement, Student career
confidence, satisfaction etc.)
Stakeholder Feedback
Employer satisfaction
Enterprise and entrepreneurship
Psychometric and EQ tests
Professional accreditations
External awards / recognitions
Percentage of students engaged in institutional
employability related awards / co-curricular awards
Student Retention data (Inc. progression & attainment)

6. The TEF Narrative
Allows for individualisation as well as ownership of the discourse and student
trajectory, and we would argue is essential to provide the colour and richness of
detail.
But can you agree on what employability means to you?
What does it look like to your students? Your business partners? What about within
the disciplines? (business / social work / fine art / sports, engineering, criminology)
TEF talks abut engaging with stakeholders as part of the assessment panel – are you
working towards those shared goals?
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7. DLHE Consultation
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Current • Two window opportunities per year – 12 January/ 14 April
• 6 months after graduation
• Response rate circa 79%
• Overall employment rate circa 77%
• Employment and/ or further study rate circa 93%
• Follow up longitudinal survey – 3.5 years after graduation
Date • Consultation in time for 2017/18 and beyond
Key principles
within consultation
1. Incorporate linked statistics (eg salaries) to replace/ limit what needs to be covered by surveys
2. Greater coverage of the principle of enterprise and entrepreneurship
3. Measuring “successful” outcomes beyond job type and salary;
• Skills developed
• Subjective wellbeing
• NPS (how would this work??)
• Self evaluative questions
• Engagement (UKES)
• Self assessment of attitude/ capability over time
• Incorporate placements and other work-based learning
• Retrospectively capture paid work conducted at the time of study
4. Changing the timescale (open-ended, no firm proposals)
5. Centralising the survey
Would this
make DLHE
more useful
for TEF
submissions?

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Hugh.Mannerings@heacademy.ac.uk
Academic Lead for Retention & Success
Jonathan.Neves@heacademy.ac.uk
HEA Surveys Manager