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With employability now featuring prominently in sector discussions, questions have grown around how to develop employability initiatives within HEI provision in a way that benefits all learners and/or learners from already marginalised and disadvantaged backgrounds. In this blog piece we first discuss how employability could or should be approached by educators in higher education. We then present three brief illustrations designed to prompt critical reflection on how, as educators, we can address social justice and employability agendas in tandem to work towards all learners benefitting from efforts to better embed employability in inventive, innovative, authentic but also inclusive ways.



A broad and vibrant community of practice has begun to emerge around the sector-wide goal of enhancing employability skills. Key approaches thus far have included the embedding of relevant transferable skills training Bangladesh consumer email list in curricula, providing wider student experiences that build employability and also drawing on relevant stakeholder voices, in particular those from industry, to shape the curriculum and wider student experience. Internships and placements also have a key role to play in enhancing employment outcomes, although evidence points to disparity in access and unique challenges faced by socially disadvantaged students while undertaking such experiences (TASO, 2022).