This document discusses employability at Westminster University. It begins by stating the university's employability objective is to connect students and employers for graduate career success. It also notes the employability strategy will be refreshed in 2023.
Next, it discusses how the university measures graduate success through the Graduate Outcomes survey, which tracks what graduates are doing 15 months after graduation. The ambition is to ensure as many graduates as possible are in highly skilled employment or further study.
It then provides the latest Graduate Outcomes results from 2019/20, noting an upturn in employment and further study outcomes that have recovered from the pandemic. The results are now on par with two years ago, and there was an upturn in graduates
This document discusses employability at Westminster University. It begins by stating the university's employability objective is to connect students and employers for graduate career success. It also notes the employability strategy will be refreshed in 2023.
Next, it discusses how the university measures graduate success through the Graduate Outcomes survey, which tracks what graduates are doing 15 months after graduation. The ambition is to ensure as many graduates as possible are in highly skilled employment or further study.
It then provides the latest Graduate Outcomes results from 2019/20, noting an upturn in employment and further study outcomes that have recovered from the pandemic. The results are now on par with two years ago, and there was an upturn in graduates
This document discusses employability at Westminster University. It begins by stating the university's employability objective is to connect students and employers for graduate career success. It also notes the employability strategy will be refreshed in 2023.
Next, it discusses how the university measures graduate success through the Graduate Outcomes survey, which tracks what graduates are doing 15 months after graduation. The ambition is to ensure as many graduates as possible are in highly skilled employment or further study.
It then provides the latest Graduate Outcomes results from 2019/20, noting an upturn in employment and further study outcomes that have recovered from the pandemic. The results are now on par with two years ago, and there was an upturn in graduates
University Employability Strategy: refresh in 2023
Employability: measuring success • Graduate Outcomes survey: nationally recognised measure of Graduate Success • Ask graduates what they are doing 15 months after graduation “Secure outstanding • Our ambition: ensure as many employability outcomes for all graduates as possible are in highly groups of graduates in skilled employment or further study. established metrics used in sector performance • Graduate success for all our graduates measurement systems.”
Being Westminster 22-29
Graduate Outcomes: Our latest results • 2019/20 results: welcome upturn in employment and further study outcomes
• Recovered from effects of pandemic – on a par with results
from 2 years ago
• Upturn in ‘highly skilled’ metric: narrowed gap to subject-
sector benchmark Work Based and Placement Learning Project Graduate success: what next? • Employability Communications: raise awareness of support • Build on existing programmes: • Work Based and Placement Learning Project (WBPL) • Westminster Employability Award (WEA) • Early Careers Programme Further enhance Business Engagement: • Scale up Future Ready Mentoring, Westminster Working Cultures and Westminster Enterprise Network • Develop our new Centre for Employability and Enterprise at 29 Marylebone Rd Videos:
Video showcasing impact of our employability projects
Video showcasing impact of Westminster Employability Award
Discussion points and Questions • Your employability strategy • How do you measure graduate success? • Challenges with engaging students and employers at your institution Thank you
Linsey Cole Monica Deshpande
Director of Business Engagement Head of Employability and Graduate l.cole2@westminster.ac.uk Success m.deshpande@westminster.ac.uk