What is employability? (Keynote 2)

What is employability?

Johnny Rich, Higher Education and Employment expert


The expectation that HE should provide students with ‘employability’ has grown in recent years, but what does that really mean? Employability is often confused with employment or skills and sometimes it is even placed in opposition to knowledge.

In an accessible and persuasive keynote, expert Johnny Rich outlined a framework of the true components of employability. Johnny showed how, through better understanding and awareness, we can embed employability into all learning and boost the transformative power of education in social mobility.

Video available below.