Originally published in 1992, this book was the first to gather together the view of industrialists, teachers and researchers. It focusses on the skills dimension of arts graduates which carry significant implication for all undergraduate programmes. It examines how the humanities and the world of work interact and how the relationship might be shaped in the future as the United Kingdom moved rapidly to a system of mass higher education. This book will be of use to all those responsible for enabling the new graduate of whatever subject to develop their skills and marketability to the full.
Originally published in 1992, this book was the first to gather together the view of industrialists, teachers and researchers. It focusses on the skills dimension of arts graduates which carry significant implication for all undergraduate programmes.
Introduction Geoffrey Channon Part A: Employers Requirements and
Expectations
1. Prudential Corporation Brian Corby
2. British Rail Colin
Wheeler
3. IBM UK Ltd Peter McManus
4. National Westminster Bank plc Kelvin
Moore
5. Association of Graduate Recruiters Helen Perkins Part B: The Skills
Dimension
6. Classifications and Models of Transferable Skills David Bradshaw
7. Employment, Skills and Career Orientations: English and History
Undergraduates Compared with Other Undergraduates Chris J. Boys
8. Humanities
Graduates in the Labour Market Eva Stina Lyon Part C: Aspirations and
Expectations of Students and Graduates
9. Student Perceptions of their
Personal Development Through Higher Education and their Preparedness for
Employment Sue Drew and Roger Payne
10. The View of a Recent Graduate Chris
Chadwick Part D: Institutional and Curriculum Responses
11. Humanities and
Employment: A National Perspective Christopher Ball
12. Humanities and
Employment: The Institutional Perspective David Watson
13. Curriculum
Development and the Role of the Tutor Kenneth Wilson
14. The Pegasus
Initiative: A Case Study in Developing Transferable Skills Peter Findlay
15.
Arts Graduates and Employment: A Careers Advisers Perspective Patricia
Pearce Part E: Conclusion
16. Making the Connections: Humanities, Skills,
Employment Heather Eggins.
Heather Eggins is a Visiting Professor at Staffordshire University, and at Strathclyde University UK. She is a Fellow Commoner of Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge. Her research interests are in a range of aspects of higher education policy and strategy, including access issues and skills. She was a Fulbright New Century Scholar, and, apart from teaching in higher education, has served as Director of the Society for Research into Higher Education, and a consultant to UNESCO. She has considerable editorial experience, and her many books include, as editor and contributor, The Changing Role of Women in Higher Education: Academic and Leadership Issues; Access and Equity: Comparative Perspectives, and (co-authored with Anna Smolenseva and Hans de Wit), Higher Education in the Next Decade: Global Challenges, Future Prospects.
