Call for Good Practices on Employability
Deadline Date: October 06, 2024
Donor Name: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
Grant Size: Not Available
Are you a higher education institution that is tackling the challenge of student employability in an innovative, effective and inclusive way? UNESCO wants to hear from you!
The UNESCO International Institute for Higher Education, with the support of Lumina Foundation, is seeking good practices from universities worldwide to enhance student/learner employability.
- Do you integrate employability skills or industry-relevant content into your curriculum in an impactful way?
- Are you offering practical, work-integrated, or service-learning opportunities in an innovative manner?
- Does your career office employ cutting-edge strategies to guide and counsel learners or connect them with high-quality internships?
- Do you offer learners meaningful networking and mentoring opportunities with employers?
- Do you offer short courses, micro-credentials, certifications, or lifelong learning opportunities that effectively support learners in (re)entering or advancing in the labor market?
- Are you fostering learners’ entrepreneurial ideas and supporting learners’-led ventures and startups?
- Do you have an advanced employability and employment data tracking system for learners and graduates that detect individual needs, gaps and inequalities?
- Are you doing other activities that help the employability of your students or other learners in your community?
Many universities are implementing these practices, but do you stand out by doing so in an innovative way that adds value, in an effective way that achieves results, and in an inclusive way that especially benefits underrepresented groups (ethnic minorities, economically disadvantaged learners, learners with disabilities, etc.)
For more information, visit UNESCO.
