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A partnership-based model for embedding employability in urban planning education

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dc.contributor.author Blair, Neale
dc.contributor.author Manda, Mtafu
dc.date.accessioned 2022-11-22T10:23:23Z
dc.date.available 2022-11-22T10:23:23Z
dc.date.issued 2016
dc.identifier.citation Blair, N. & Manda, M. (2016). A partnership-based model for embedding employability in urban planning education. Urban, Planning and Transport Research, 4(1), 46-63. https://doi.org/10.1080/21650020.2016.1145070 en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://doi.org/10.1080/21650020.2016.1145070
dc.identifier.uri http://repository.mzuni.ac.mw/handle/123456789/375
dc.description.abstract This paper proposes a partnership-based model for embedding employability in urban planning education. The model is based on the author’s experiences of implementing an international project which supported the development of employability skills in urban and regional planning education in Malawi. Since independence, urban planners have typically trained outside the country, attending university in the UK and other Commonwealth countries. More recently, the paradigm has shifted towards in-country education delivered by academic staff cognisant with the opportunities and challenges of development in Malawi. There remains, though, a gap between graduate knowledge of the subject and the skills necessary to pursue a professional career in the sector. Although there is no consensus yet on the meaning of employability in the literature, lessons from the project indicate that academic–public–private collaboration helps incorporate in curriculum skills that employers anticipate. Applicability of these principles is however context dependent, particularly in the emerging economy context where institutional capacity may be less developed compared to elsewhere en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Routledge en_US
dc.subject Urban planning en_US
dc.subject employability en_US
dc.subject partnership en_US
dc.subject emerging economy en_US
dc.subject curriculum design en_US
dc.title A partnership-based model for embedding employability in urban planning education en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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