Common use of Employability Clause in Contracts

Employability. The University is committed to supporting its students to succeed on their courses and then move on to a fulfilling career. Whilst Roehampton has a strong record in employability it intends to build on this even further. In 2008-09, 88% of graduates were in employment or further study six months after graduation, compared to a UK average of 90%. We have this year created a new Student Development Office to enhance the support provided to students in developing their employability skills, bringing together the employment and careers service, placements, student entrepreneurship, volunteering and wider activities like extracurricular sports. In addition the University will be offering more opportunities for students to study abroad for a semester and is also looking at increasing opportunities for students to be employed on campus so as to provide both income and work experience. The University has been allocated 74 scholarships for 2012. We wish to keep our scheme simple and transparent: a complex system of selection would only add to the confusion inherent in the new funding system, as well as incur high administration costs, which we do not believe is an appropriate use of student fee income. We therefore welcome the Secretary of State’s announcement that ‘the programme will remain flexible in its initial years’. To keep in line with our financial model we will need to spread our contribution equally over 2 years – the recipients 2nd and 3rd years of study. This also encourages retention and helps students at each stage of their studies. We will distribute the scholarships based on a combination of household income and prior attainment, which supports our strategy to encourage aspiration among under-represented groups. In doing so we will acknowledge attainment through achievement at A level as well as other qualifications. The University will allocate the National Scholarship Programme recipients a £1,000 cash bursary during their studies with the remainder of the award allocated as tuition fee waivers. The cash bursary will be made up of £300 in years 1 and 2 of their studies and £400 in their final year. Tuition fee waivers will be £2,700 in year 1, £1,200 in year 2 and £1,100 in year 3. Awards will be made to the top 74 new entrants in year 1 by their tariff score that are in receipt of a full maintenance grant.

Employability. The University is committed to supporting its students to succeed on their courses and then move on to a fulfilling career. Whilst Roehampton has a strong record in employability it intends to build on this even furtherits already strong record in employability. In 2008-09Out of our 2010- 11 graduates, 8891.4% of graduates were in employment or further study six months after graduation, compared to a UK average of 90%. We have this year created a new Student Development Office to enhance the support provided to students in developing their employability skills, bringing together the employment and careers service, placements, student entrepreneurship, volunteering and wider activities like extracurricular sports. In addition the University will be offering more opportunities for students to study abroad for a semester and is also looking at increasing opportunities for students to be employed on campus so as to provide both income and work experience. The University has been allocated 74 166 scholarships for 20122013-14. We wish to keep our scheme simple and transparent: a complex system of selection would only add to the confusion inherent in the new funding system, as well as incur high administration costs, which we do not believe is an appropriate use of student fee income. We therefore welcome the Secretary of State’s announcement that ‘the programme will remain flexible in its initial years’. To keep in line with our financial model we will need to spread our contribution equally over 2 two years – the recipients 2nd recipients’ second and 3rd third years of study. This also encourages retention and helps students at each stage of their studies. We will distribute the scholarships based on a combination of household income and prior attainment, which supports our strategy to encourage aspiration among under-under- represented groups. In doing so we will acknowledge attainment through achievement at A level as well as other qualifications. The University will allocate the National Scholarship Programme recipients a £1,000 cash bursary during their studies with the remainder of the award allocated as tuition fee waivers. The cash bursary will be made up of £300 in years 1 and 2 of their studies and £400 in their final year. Tuition fee waivers will be £2,700 in year 1, £1,200 in year 2 and £1,100 in year 3. Awards will be made to the top 74 166 new entrants in year 1 by their tariff score that are in receipt of a full maintenance grant.

Employability. The University is committed MMU has introduced the E3 (Employability, Employment, Enterprise) Strategy, under the direction of the DVC Student Success, which identifies a range of initiatives and measures to supporting its students to succeed on their courses and then move on to a fulfilling career. Whilst Roehampton has a strong record in employability it intends to build on this even further. In 2008-09, 88% of graduates were in employment or further study six months after graduation, compared to a UK average of 90%. We have this year created a new Student Development Office to enhance the support provided to students in developing their employability skills, bringing together improve the employment and careers service, placements, student entrepreneurship, volunteering and wider activities like extracurricular sports. In addition the University will be offering more opportunities outcomes for students to study abroad for a semester and is also looking at increasing opportunities for students to be employed on campus so as to provide both income and work experienceall our students. The University has been allocated 74 scholarships increased the resource available to improve the opportunities and support for 2012students entering the graduate labour market, and we will monitor the impact of this on the target groups. We wish Specific investment in time and resource will include the following areas: i. Research demonstrates that as many as 30% of major employers offer graduate jobs to keep students who have undertaken placements with them. Increased resource for placement teams in Faculties will enable us to increase the number of placement and work based learning opportunities for students, and increase the amount of support available to students to ensure the experience is a success. ii. MMU will implement a curriculum framework for all undergraduate courses that encompasses employability, internationalisation, sustainability, enterprise and entrepreneurship, alongside a comprehensive extra-curricular programme that complements and enhances the credit-bearing learning experience. iii. Support will be provided for target group students to access both study and work experience opportunities abroad as this can be a great way of helping students to develop personally and academically, and can raise aspirations and improve confidence, and therefore job prospects. MMU’s Internationalisation Strategy identifies ways to facilitate a greater range of target group students to gain international experience. iv. The University has created the MMU Intern Scheme to offer employment opportunities within the University to our recent graduates. The scheme simple offers many of our graduates the opportunity to gain highly valuable experience of working either within a specific university department or across multiple departments. In addition, the GradMatch internship scheme offers internships for graduates with local companies, and transparent: a complex system we also promote summer Internships for students. In total we aim to provide more than 100 internships each year. v. As around 66% of selection would only add our graduates choose to the confusion inherent stay in the new funding systemNorth West it is important that we maximise employment opportunities for them in this region. As SMEs represent 95% of all employers in the UK, as well as incur high administration costs, which we do not believe is an appropriate use of student fee income. We therefore welcome the Secretary of State’s announcement that ‘the programme will remain flexible in its initial years’. To keep in line with our financial model we will need develop a specific plan to spread our contribution equally over 2 years – the recipients 2nd increase employment with SMEs for MMU students and 3rd years of study. This also encourages retention and helps students at each stage of their studiesgraduates. vi. We will distribute the scholarships based on implement a combination graduate Recruitment Agency so that we can direct employers straight to our students and graduates, and offer targeted support, thus maximising their chances of household income and prior attainment, which supports our strategy to encourage aspiration among under-represented groups. In doing so we will acknowledge attainment through achievement at A level as well as other qualificationsentering professional/managerial employment. vii. The University will allocate the National Scholarship Programme recipients provide an on-campus part-time jobs bureau, Jobs4Students, plus run an annual part-time employment fair to support students in finding work whilst they are studying, to both aid retention and deliver quality work experience to improve graduate job prospects. viii. We will re-launch our ‘Mentormatch’ on-line career mentoring programme, which will have a £1,000 cash bursary during their studies particular emphasis on matching widening participation students with the remainder of the award allocated as tuition fee waivers. The cash bursary will be made up of £300 in years 1 and 2 of their studies and £400 in their final year. Tuition fee waivers will be £2,700 in year 1, £1,200 in year 2 and £1,100 in year 3. Awards will be made employers from professions they would like to the top 74 new entrants in year 1 by their tariff score that are in receipt of a full maintenance grantenter.