'What makes for an employable graduate?' The first of 5 presentations from guest speakers at Digital Leaders North East's annual review, delivered by Michael Ryding, of Digital City, Teesside.
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Graduate Skills - DLNE 11th December
1. APRIL
What makes for an employable
graduate?
Michael Ryding
Director of DigitalCity, Teesside
2. CHALLENGES FROM THE SALON
• Why are graduates not ‘industry-ready’?
• How is the curriculum aligned with business needs?
• Why are there so few skilled digital graduates?
3. KEY DISCUSSION POINTS FROM THE SALON
• What does industry ready mean?
• Does it mean ‘trained-up’?
• Does it mean team working skills?
• Does it mean realistic expectations?
• How to align the curriculum
• Industry panels?
• Placements?
• Internships?
• Addressing the skills shortage
• Wrong skills
• Pipeline
4. SOLUTIONS FROM THE SALON
• We need to start long before the graduate stage and
support secondary schools with industry visits, skills
enhancement and digital clubs
• We need to make industry placements a compulsory
part of degrees
• We need to get involved with curriculum development
• We need to consider other forms of qualifications
5. WHAT HAPPENED NEXT
• Created a new talent event and reworked one other
• Became involved in Higher Apprenticeships
• Continued working with secondary school teachers
• Fed into new course development in specific subjects
• Added Internships to our Computing masters degrees