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

Overview of Presentation Institutional overviews Definition of terms Employability models –XMUT model –UCLan model ‘CareerEDGE’ –Towards a joint model Progress to-date Concluding Remarks

XMUT Employability Model

UCLan Employability Model

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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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