Industry-linked projects and research-informed-and-enriched curriculum for sustainable student employability metrics

Ekpo, Sunday ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9219-3759 (2020) Industry-linked projects and research-informed-and-enriched curriculum for sustainable student employability metrics. In: Advance HE STEM Conference 2020, 29 January 2020 - 30 January 2020, Manchester. (Unpublished)

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Abstract

A student project constitutes the largest single piece of work the individual students will carry out during their degree course. Most students see their University projects only as a unit to be fulfilled for their degree attainment and think less of their post-University professional and academic career ambitions. This paper presents industry-linked projects and research-informed-and-enriched curriculum for sustainable improved student educational metrics. The findings reveal that integrated research-informed model of reflection and formative assessment and feedback is a productive teaching-supervision craft practice tool that promises to enhance the student development and outcomes; academic career progress; professionalism; entrepreneurship; employment; and employability.