In this PIE Chat Live we will explore the issue of employability in relation to international students.

Changes in demand, employer needs and UK government policy are combining to bring about a new emphasis in the way universities work with employers and students to ensure that graduates thrive after study. Perhaps inevitably, the focus in this shift has been domestic students, with the OfS putting in place a series of KPIs to track destinations within UK employers to show how well graduates from institutions and courses fare in the labour market.

However, UCAS and other data sources show that employability is as important a factor for international students in choosing a university and course as it is for domestic students. But an employability group established by UKCISA in 2020 found that 44% of respondents working in HEIs felt unable to meet the demand for careers and employability services from their international students.

And the same survey found 86% of respondents reporting demand for careers services from international students to be either very high or fairly high.

Join us in this PIE Chat Live to hear from James Farr, Director of Think, an education and training consultancy.

James and host, Nick Golding, will unpick the employability needs of international students, why they matter, and how universities can go about meeting them.

Host: Nick Golding, Business Development Director, The PIE

Speaker: James Farr, Director, Think Consultancy

Employability and the international student: Are universities set to meet expectations?