In recent years there has been an increasing emphasis on ‘employability’ as a metric by which the success of a university education and our teaching is, or should be, assessed (Jackson et al., 2013).  Academics have been instructed to re-write and re-structure courses to improve the ‘employability’ of our graduates, in everything from scientific and vocational fields to arts and humanities. More...

Over 200 participants in Cedefop’s conference on how to make learning visible, on 28 and 29 November in Thessaloniki, agreed that validation of non-formal and informal learning is important for Europe’s future. More...