‘Employability’ certificate suggested as way of showing students’ skills
Friday 29th April 2011, 2:29PM BST.
Lifelong learning manager Alun Williams and education officer for secondary schools Neil Stevenson addressing yesterday’s second Education Business Partnership Conference. (Picture by Steve Sarre, 1129410)
AN EMPLOYABILITY qualification for students leaving college or school was one idea that businesses at a conference yesterday thought could prove an advantage in getting interviewees ready for the workplace.
The suggestion was made at the end of the second annual Education Business Partnership Conference.
It brought employers and education professionals together to increase the understanding of what each side does.
The aim of the partnership is to ensure students are work-ready and that employers are aware of the skills that students leave school or college with.
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certify school leavers as “employable” or “un-employable”?
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One thing I look for when employing young people is what they have done outside of education: Scouts, Guides, Sailing, Sport team, D of E etc…. “Socialising and gaming” does not score highly.
I don’t need a certificate to tell me if someone is employable or not and educational qualifications are only part of the picture
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Waste of time.
Because what is the parent of the first student who fails going to do??
Sooner or later they will be given out like sweets like GCSE’s and this will become just another money grabbing administration scheme.
I thought one of the advantages behind having an exam at the end of a syllabus (i.e.GCSE’s) was to differentiaitie between what skills young adults have, perhaps if they actually served their purpose, there would be no need for extra expense!!
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This is just rediculous!!!!! When will people understand that some people are really successful, others are not and everybody else falls in between. What will this certificate achieve? It devalues a CV and will just be something else that makes everybody exactly the same. This is insane!!!
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What a fantastic idea, because its only students who struggle to get jobs?! brilliant, i have been trying to find a new job for months now, to find that because i dont have ‘any degree whatsoever’ (honestly, one job description was to have literally any degree, even if it had no relevence to the vacancy)
Lets help the students all get jobs, but leave any adults wishing to better themselves by the wayside, they had their chance i guess?! funny that, im only 22!!!!!!! and i cant get a decent job because i refuse to run up debt by spending half my life in education because i have a family to now provide for. How fantastic that local companies wish to look after the up and coming youth and the younger island residents!!
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Some good points above.
As a parent the fact that industry figures think such a thing would be useful rings alarm bells of concern. Surely one of the primary objectives of education is to prepare all children for the workplace – not just in terms of academia but interpersonal and cognitive skills as well?
That industry figures think this certificate idea is a good one is proof they evidently don’t think this is happening. That being so, something a bit more fundamental needs to be done at the grass roots level rather than papering over the cracks with another pointless qualification which, as Dave Haslam points out, will eventually become worthless.
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