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The shifting sands of employability

Wilton, Nick

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Nicholas Wilton Nicholas.Wilton@uwe.ac.uk
Faculty Academic Director - Strategic Partnerships



Abstract

The term ‘employability’ has gradually permeated the national consciousness, increasingly used across a variety of policy areas including higher education, social welfare and public finance. However, despite its offhand use in government policy discourse, employability is a problematic term with shifting and diverse meanings, holding different connotations for statisticians, economists, healthcare professionals, policymakers and HR managers. The purpose of this article is to discuss the development of alternative definitions of employability, the components that make up individual or collective employability and to discuss some of the problems associated with its use.

Citation

Wilton, N. (2011). The shifting sands of employability

Journal Article Type Article
Publication Date Jan 1, 2011
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Journal CESR Review
Peer Reviewed Not Peer Reviewed
Volume 4
Pages 2-5
Keywords employability, disadvantage, skills, labour markets
Public URL https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/966499
Publisher URL http://www1.uwe.ac.uk/bbs/research/cesr/cesrreview.aspx

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