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Employability

The distance between graduation and the first real job.

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Portfolio-based assessment, piloted alongside exams

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Problem
High-stakes exams certify memory of covered content, not capability. Employers discount the signal; students optimise for the wrong target.
Intervention
Run a term-long pilot where a cohort maintains an evidenced portfolio of real work, assessed against a published rubric — alongside, not instead of, existing exams — and publish the comparison.
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The Portfolio Pilot

Employers say they trust evidence of real work over marks — but no institution in the room offers students a structured way to produce and certify that evidence.

HypothesisIf a cohort maintains an evidenced portfolio against a published capability rubric for one term, external reviewers will rate it a stronger hiring signal than the same cohort's marksheets.

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