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Bringing unseen employability support into view

Simon O'Leary

January 2020

Unseen employability support has resulted in some students, particularly females, missing out on crucial careers guidance

Key findings

  • The level of employability support provision is essentially the same across SSAH (social sciences, arts and humanities) and STEM (sciences, technology, engineering, mathematics) subjects.
  • However, the level of its visibility in SSAH areas is significantly poorer.
  • Only a fraction of STEM students do not recognise the employability support being provided, whereas that number is ten times higher in SSAH areas.
  • With students in STEM being two-thirds male and in SSAH two-thirds female, the visibility of employability-related support is significantly lower for female students.

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Opportunities to enhance all graduate employability, particularly in the arts, humanities and social sciences, and especially for females

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About the report

This research was carried out by Professor Simon O'Leary from Regent's University London, and the findings were published in the Studies in Higher Education journal. The work follows from a previous study in 2017, which was published in the Journal of Education and Work, and the draws on three sets of data to reveal opportunities for enhancing graduate employability across all subject areas that would have a notably positive impact for female graduates.

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Simon O'Leary
Director of University Research Centre for Entrepreneurship and Family Business
Regent's University London

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