A wide range of career opportunities are open nowadays to STEM-qualified graduates, and they are found both in traditional scientific and engineering occupations and in other areas, such as financial services, consultancy, and the public sector. It is thought that some STEM-qualified graduates prefer not to take up science or engineering occupations because they are [...]
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Archive: 2009
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Sunday, 13 December, 2009
Understanding better the wider demand for graduates in STEM disciplines
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Saturday, 28 November, 2009
The Times Higher reports on the creation of CIHEs Task Forces
Writing in the Times Higher, Hannah Fearn reports on the Council for Industry and Higher Education’s Task Forces set up to examine the relationship between business and universities in different industries. The article says: “The move, part of chief executive David Docherty’s plan to overhaul the remit of the CIHE, will produce a series of [...]
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Friday, 27 November, 2009
Council for Industry and Higher Education launches “Partnering For Success” Task Forces
The Council for Industry and Higher Education (CIHE) has today announced the formation of two strategic task forces. The first will explore the next wave of engineering and manufacturing jobs and research. The second will focus on the digital and creative industries. Both task forces will explore where businesses and universities can better work together [...]
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Thursday, 24 September, 2009
Rewarding research connected to global challenges
CIHE supports the emphasis in the Research Excellence Framework (REF) consultation published by HEFCE on strengthening the ‘research environment’ and encouraging wider engagement by universities beyond their institution and research disciplines. This will be crucial to expanding the outward reach of our universities, not just as a civic responsibility but as part of contributing to [...]
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Tuesday, 22 September, 2009
Investing in our future
Writing in the Guardian, CIHE Chief Executive David Docherty responds to the launch of the CBI’s report from its Higher Education Task Force. The real sadness about the report’s initial reception is that it is a bold statement of intent by the CBI. The taskforce is calling for a major commitment by businesses to work [...]
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Friday, 11 September, 2009
CBI Task Force on Higher Education
The CIHE welcomes the report from the CBI Task Force on Higher Education that builds on and echoes the research and collaborative activities the CIHE has undertaken over many years. As a strategic leadership network of business leaders and university Vice Chancellors we have a very direct interest in promoting a system of higher learning [...]
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Thursday, 10 September, 2009
Rewarding research connected to global challenges
CIHE supports the emphasis in the Research Excellence Framework (REF) consultation published by HEFCE on strengthening the ‘research environment’ and encouraging wider engagement by universities beyond their institution and research disciplines. This will be crucial to expanding the outward reach of our universities, not just as a civic responsibility but as part of contributing to [...]
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Saturday, 11 July, 2009
Employer Engagement with Higher Education: Defining, Sustaining and Supporting Higher Skills Provision
Following on from CIHE’s research on how employers can work successfully with HE to influence the curriculum and help develop new provision (see our Influence through Collaboration report published September 2008 and available for download from our Knowledge Bank), its authors Helen Connor and Wendy Hirsh have been working in collaboration with the University of Exeter [...]
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Saturday, 11 July, 2009
Global Horizons: recruiting international students and graduates from UK universities
The fourth report in our series on Global Horizons and how universities and businesses can work together to develop more globally aware graduates. Commissioned by the Prime Minister’s Initiative (PMI2) which wanted to find out how more businesses, and especially small companies, might offer more international students a quality work placement and recruit more international [...]
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Monday, 11 May, 2009
Employability Profiles
Click here to see what employability capabilities you can develop by studying a range of courses.
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Monday, 11 May, 2009
Employer Engagement!
On 13 May CIHE joined THE to deliver this exclusive conference. Presentation slides on Valuing the Views of Employers given by Chief Executive, Richard Brown at this conference are available for download Valuing the Views of Employers Other speaker notes from the day can be downloaded from Times Higher Education.
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Saturday, 11 April, 2009
Fourth Annual BMAF conference
Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for Business, Management, Accountancy and Finance (BMAF) have announced their 4th Annual Conference to take place in Cardiff 28-29 April. The 150 delegate event, entitled Actively Engaging Employees, will see a keynote presentation from CIHE’s Helen Connor. The press release dated April 2009 is available to download from our Knowledge Bank.
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Wednesday, 11 March, 2009
Perfect Partnership
Incoming Chief Executive, David Docherty, discusses his vision for the Council for Industry and Higher Education in Times Higher Education.. Click here to read on.
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Wednesday, 11 March, 2009
Take Heart Graduates!
Chief Executive, Richard Brown, offers his views for the Independent on the future for graduates. Take heart, graduate jobs are out there
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Wednesday, 11 February, 2009
Benchmarking demand for STEM
New research jointly commissioned by CIHE with DIUS and the Engineering Technology Board (ETB) from the University of Warwick on benchmark projections about business requirements for STEM skills reveals that, based on past employment figures, demand for STEM graduates and postgraduates will grow significantly faster than the average for all subject groups. The Demand for [...]
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Sunday, 13 December, 2009
