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A Developing Joint Educational Framework
for Incorporating Employability and Enterprise
in the Engineering Curriculum
Martin R. Varley, Julie Hardy,
Peter J. Sewell, Lorraine Dacre Pool,
David Bagley, Philip Tranter,
Jenny Shi, John A. Calderbank

University of Central Lancashire, UK
Fang Xiaodong

Xiamen University of Technology, PR China


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Overview of Presentation
• Institutional overviews

• Definition of terms
• Employability models
– XMUT model
– UCLan model ‘CareerEDGE’
– Towards a joint model

• Progress to-date
• Concluding Remarks


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XMUT Employability Model


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UCLan Employability Model


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Aspects of Progress to-date
• Pre-bid visit of UCLan staff to Xiamen

• Visit of UCLan staff to Xiamen
– Dissemination of information
– Identify areas of common ground

– Identify areas of good practice

• Action Plan

• Employability Audit Tool
• Further aspects


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A Developing Joint Educational Framework
for Incorporating Employability and Enterprise
in the Engineering Curriculum
For further details, see full presentation at ICEE-2010, or contact:

Martin R. Varley
School of Computing, Engineering and Physical Sciences
University of Central Lancashire, UK
[email protected]


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A Developing Joint Educational Framework
for Incorporating Employability and Enterprise
in the Engineering Curriculum
Martin R. Varley, Julie Hardy,
Peter J. Sewell, Lorraine Dacre Pool,
David Bagley, Philip Tranter,
Jenny Shi, John A. Calderbank

University of Central Lancashire, UK
Fang Xiaodong

Xiamen University of Technology, PR China