Student Success: critiques of employability

Student Success is a six-month longitudinal project for the Connect Benefit Series 2021-22 focusing on embedding employability and access, retention, attainment and progression in higher education.

This is the third episode in this series of podcasts previewing the findings of a literature review on employability 2016-21, which will be published as part of the Student Success theme. In this episode, Dr Roger Dalrymple, Associate Dean: Student Outcomes at Oxford Brookes University and Dr Andrea Macrae, Principal Lecturer, Stylistics and Student Experience at Oxford Brookes University is joined by Dr Maia Pal, Senior Lecturer in International Relations, Oxford Brookes University to discuss the aspects of the literature review focusing on critiques of employability. This podcast focuses particularly on how employability is conceptualised, the emphasis on human capital theory and marketisation, and how different aspects of employability from the global north translated in practice in other locations around the world.

This episode was recorded on 2 September 2021.

For more information on this podcast series and the Connect Benefits Series - Student Success, please visit https://www.advance-he.ac.uk/membership/member-benefits-2021-22/connect-benefit-series/student-success