ABSTRACT
McLeman and Smith provide evidence of the effective collaboration between Thames Valley Enterprise and Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College regarding the development of an initiative aimed at developing students’ career management capability. A feature of interest is the introduction of pilot schemes that reflected the nature and priorities of the different faculties involved, rather than a central prescription. Work in the Faculty of Applied Social Studies and Humanities is highlighted, and shows inter alia that, although students may, early in their time in higher education, possess skills relevant to career management, it is often necessary to develop their awareness that they actually do possess them and can use them. The experience of a ‘mock’ application and interview process involving employers (another aspect of partnership) is shown to have had benefit for the students involved. An issue for the future is how to extend the pilot initiative across a broader front when the pump-priming funding ends.
