Employability & Personal Development

Birmingham City University: Good Practice in employability and personal development planning (PDP)

Birmingham City University is proud of its commitment to the employability, employer engagement and personal and professional development of its students and graduates.

Birmingham City University - Chosen as exemplar

CBI/NUS, UKCES and HEA publications have all cited us as examples of good practice click here for more information

Birmingham City University is the home of the Creating Future-Proof Graduates project - click here for more information about the project and the excellent employability resources we have created.

The Birmingham City University  Employable STudents (BEST) AWARDS 2011

We want to recognise and celebrate the excellent, innovative and enthusiastic work of our staff in enhancing the employability of our students.

Click here for more information about the BEST initiative and Awards and to download a nomination form

INTERNAL PRACTICE: Enhancing Employability and PDP

Birmingham City University was one of the early adopters of Employability and PDP in the curriculum.  We have been creating, developing and delivering resources designed to help academic staff embed employability in our programmes since the 1990's. 

To see examples of resources created for internal use click here

To see research we are undertaking into Employability and PDP click here

EXTERNAL: Employability Developers group

Ruth Lawton from CELT created and established the 'Employability Development' group for those working to embed employability in the HE curriculum. There are now over 200 members from around the world.

To join the ‘employability-development' list go to http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/EMPLOYABILITY-DEVELOPMENT and click on the option ‘join or leave employability-development'

For more information about our external connections click here

Contact

To find out more about employability and personal and professional development at Birmingham City University contact Ruth Lawton ruth.lawton@bcu.ac.uk (0121 331 5126)