EAN Congress 23: New models in employability

Employment outcomes for engineering graduates are strong, but even so, employers complain that students aren’t job-ready. Meanwhile Industry 4.0 and the pace of technological change are likely to mean that the skills that make a student employable today may be obsolete in just a few years. Our expert panel considered what lifelong employability looks like, how can we better embed its teaching into Engineering degrees, and how best to level the employment gap between those from affluent and disadvantaged backgrounds.