Project details: Curriculum Development and Career Decision-Making in Higher Education
Funding Body
HECSU
Duration
August 2005 - July 2006
Grant
£22,000
Description
A team led by Rosalind Foskett of the University of Southampton School of Education undertook a study of careers education within the higher education curriculum. The research was sponsored by HECSU as part of their Career Making programme. The project was designed specifically to investigate the nature of credit-bearing careers education that has been integrated into the curriculum.M
The project aimed to:
- map the provision of credit-bearing careers education programmes within UK HE and FHE institutions and to produce a fine-grained typology for this provision;
- identify the nature and characteristics of those programmes;
- identify, through a number of vignettes, examples of interesting and innovative practice of credit-bearing careers education in higher education institutions.
The research project involved three main research phases:
- Key informant interviews to investigate the range of embedded credit bearing careers education programmes and to pilot the questionnaire.
- Two questionnaires to all higher education institutions designed to gather data on the nature, scope and scale of credit-bearing careers education provision embedded in the curriculum. One questionnaire investigated provision at the institutional scale and the other was aimed at individual units and programmes.
- The development of vignettes of programmes identified as interesting and innovative by the questionnaire survey and key informant groups.
Outcomes
The project report is available on the HECSU website
