{"id":5435,"date":"2013-10-31T08:54:04","date_gmt":"2013-10-31T07:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/?p=5435"},"modified":"2013-10-31T10:28:14","modified_gmt":"2013-10-31T09:28:14","slug":"music-students-and-employability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2013\/10\/31\/music-students-and-employability\/","title":{"rendered":"Music, students and employability"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I’ve written about several times previously<\/a>,the employability of our students in Life After Kent is important, both to us as an extra-curricular department – the range of disciplines being studied in combination with musical pursuits at the university is extraordinary – and to the University itself, with its Employability Points Scheme and the Careers and Employability Service.<\/a><\/p>\n

With this in mind (and with only a slight changing of ‘music students’ to ‘musical students’), here’s a useful article in The Guardian recently, focusing on the employability of music graduates and the range of skills they can offer that make them highly desirable in the employment sector.<\/p>\n

The experience of organising, hosting, and performing in events that are open to the public provides them with skills beyond those on other degree programmes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read the article in full here.<\/a><\/p>\n