b'10 Partner News Summer 2023AcademicInclusive Industry-linked STEM-Enterprise Education Model forRaising Job-Creating GraduatesBy Sunday Ekpo, Muhammad Ijaz and Stephen Powell, ManchesterMetropolitan University, UK Low Science, Technology, Engineeringcaused by applicants lacking industry-and Mathematics (STEM) education andrelevant digital skills required for the role. entrepreneurship uptake amongst women;Several regions of the UK are impacted by digital skill-shortage vacancies; and lowdigital SSVs. Digital literacy skills shortages enterprise creation need a holistic globalamong SMEs in the UK are estimated to partnership to overcome. A holistic inclusivehave created an 85bn productivity gap. academe-industry partnership offers a means through which all students can learnThe authors developed industry-linked Unit STEM subjects, digital and soft skills anddesign and student projects at Manchester incubate their innovative ideas to becomeMet University that reflect thus: Research-industry-ready and technopreneurs. Theinformed-and-enriched lecture, workshop current higher education curricula yield job- and tutorial sessions contain modernIndustry Partners Supporting University STEM Educationseeking graduates every year and graduatesindustry-linked engineering topics; Industrialat Manchester Met Universityhave enormous potential to become job- partners co-design and co-deliver specialist creating assets rather than salary-takerscontents; Innovative industry-linked projects or negotiators in a crowded unemploymentpresentations to the relevant industry market.partners; and UKs IETs Accredited Higher Education Programme learning outcomes How do we educate future employers?and Chartered Engineers engineering How do we translate and/or transform ourcompetences are emphasised. students from job-seekers to job-creators?Outcome and ImpactHow do we design our curricula to deliverThe innovation of this pedagogy lies in theEffective September 2015, the student job-creating learning and/or graduatetransformation of the learning experienceengagement metric has improved by over outcomes? This article presents an inclusiveof the students whilst embracing cutting- 50 %, and 100 % of the students whose industry-linked STEM-enterprise educationedge industry co-design and co-deliveryfinal-year projects were industry-sponsored and technopreneurship model. Our industry- of specialist contents. This includesachieved a distinction grade. Moreover, linked pedagogy has led to three world- systems for recruitment and selection ofthe industry-linked pedagogy has been leading international companies partneringindustry participants; University innovationenriched with industry-sponsored world-with Manchester Met to enhance theincubation; facilitating job placements; jobclass international education programmes, Universitys employability, entrepreneurship,creation; and graduate-to-graduate/industrygrants and equipment donations from and employment metrics. partnerships. Manchester Met has utilisedindustry partners. 100% of the taught and the industry-linked engineering pedagogysupervised students gained employment Inclusive Industry-linked Engineeringto secure a long-term Sonys Sensinginto the industry; and/or embarked on Pedagogy University Program partnership that offers: further education. Unemployment is a global challenge. In 2019, there were about 200,000 UKAccess to Sonys internship This has contributed to Manchester Met vacancies that were hard to fill due to aprogrammes being ranked 7th and 4th in the UK for lack of skills among applicants; describedR&D engineering capacity-buildingElectronic and Electrical Engineering as skill-shortage vacancies (SSVs). Around apartnerships with Universitys programme by The Guardian University third of SSVs (30 %) were at least partiallyresearch groups Guide 2022 and 2023 respectively.'