In 2009, the UK Commission for Employment and Skills (UKCES) issued a full report detailing the importance of employability skills in enabling individuals to achieve, succeed in and sustain rewarding employment roles. The report associates the importance of equipping individuals with employability skills with ensuring that the UK economy achieves recovery in such challenging times, by producing a competitive, efficient workforce (UKCES 2009).
The UKCES (2009;3) states that it wants 'every school, college, university and training provider to treat the employability of their learners as part of their core business'. Cornwall College is one of Deloitte's Employability Centres in the UK, and is helping to lead the way in delivering employability skills to all it's learners, in line with the UKCES target of building 'an institutional culture that promotes employability'.
As a teacher at Cornwall College, I accept my responsibility to embed employability skills where possible, by contextualising learning. With this in mind I will promote and equip learners with a variety of employability skills, enabling learners to reflect upon areas in which they need to develop transferable skills which will be of benefit to them not only in the workplace but also in everyday life situations.
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