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Join us for the ISE HE Conference 2025, which will hold virtually over 3 half days, where you can expect the perfect opportunity for HE careers professionals and early careers industry peers to access and share early career insights, while connecting with colleagues and experts across the following spaces in early talent recruitment.
- Careers advice and guidance
- Employer engagement
- Employability and skills
- Degree apprenticeships
Confirmed Sessions
Day 1 Sessions
Working in partnership to deliver employability in the curriculum at scale
Vicky Greenaway - University of London, Naomi Oosman-Watts - Group GTI
Embedding employability within the curriculum is increasingly central to how universities prepare students for future success. This session will explore the strategic approach, institutional drivers and partnership models that enable this work to flourish. Drawing on university perspectives and sector insight, it will consider how collaboration between higher education and employers can create richer learning experiences and more diverse talent pathways.
The session will also demonstrate how technology can play a vital role in scaling this activity – supporting consistent delivery, meaningful engagement and sustained partnerships that benefit students, educators and employers alike.
How Collaborative HE & DWP Partnerships in Birmingham Are Transforming Graduate Robyn Fisher-Payne - Birmingham City University, Sandeep Solanki - Graduate Re-Tune Programme Manager, Lucia Puricelli, Head of Community and Skills Projects
Sustainable Partnerships & Sector-Wide Collaboration
Day 2 Sessions
Recruitment trends in early careers
Claire Tyler - ISE, Lindsay Rowe - FCA, Jake Bustos - Coca-Cola, Barbara Menhart - A O Shearman.
Drawing on data from the newly released ISE Student Recruitment Survey, Dr Claire Tyler, ISE's Head of Insights will explore the key trends across early careers. The panel will discuss the nuances behind the figures with the opportunity for audience Q&A.
Day 3 Sessions
Escaping the Employability Gap: Embedding Skills and AI into the Graduate Journey Joe Sheffield -Sixtylearn, Samantha Morley.
Skills-Based Hiring & Curriculum Integration
Embedding Employability into the Curriculum: A Spectrum-Based Approach for Sustainable Institutional Impact Dr Louise Rutherford, Director of Consultancy, Gradcore, Sharon Dunphy, Deputy Executive Director, University Centre South Essex.
Skills-Based Hiring & Curriculum Integration
Ticket Options
1–3 Places
- Members: £265 + VAT
- Non-Members: £365 + VAT
Up to 30 Places
- Members: £525 + VAT
- Non-Members: £625 + VAT
Registering your confirmed delegates
Following your booking, a registration link to access and join the conference virtually will be sent to the lead conference booker to share with their organisation's confirmed virtual delegates for the conference, during the week commencing 24 November.
Headline sponsor

Supporting sponsor

Organised by: ISE Events of Institute of Student Employers
Phone Number: 02045794507
Prices
Please find a list of tickets for this event below.
| Ticket |
Price |
| Individual Tickets |
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| Group Booking Tickets |
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ISE Member - 1- 3 Places - 3 slots
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£265.00 |
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ISE Member - Up to 30 Places - 30 slots
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£525.00 |
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Non ISE Member - 1- 3 Places - 3 slots
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£365.00 |
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Non ISE Member - Up to 30 Places - 30 slots
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£625.00 |
All listed prices are excluding VAT
Delegate Terms and Conditions
Delegate bookings: terms and conditions
These terms and conditions apply to the majority of ISE events. Should alternative terms and conditions apply, they will be linked to at the time of booking.
Full payment for delegate places must be made prior to the date of the event. Once a booking is submitted and received by ISE the booking constitutes a firm booking which can only be cancelled in accordance with our cancellation policy set out below.
Cancellation policy
All cancellations must be received by submitting a ‘request a refund’ email .This must then be followed by a telephone call to confirm receipt.
Delegate place cancellations received 29 days or more prior to an event will be entitled to a 100% credit voucher or refund. Cancellations received between 15 days and 28 days (inclusive) prior to the event will receive a 100% credit voucher to attend a future ISE event or a 75% refund. For cancellations received between 1 day and 14 days (inclusive) prior to the event, no credit voucher or refund will be given. Substitutions are welcome at any time.
Failure to attend the event on the day will constitute late cancellation and no refund will be given.
Filming and recording
By attending an ISE event, delegates consent to being filmed, recorded and photographed. Delegates grant the ISE the right to use recordings of any type made of their attendance in any and all media, and by means of publicity and promotion relating to the ISE.
The unauthorised use of photographic, sound or film equipment at an ISE event is strictly prohibited. If you wish to use this equipment, please contact the Events Team prior to the start of the event. The copyright is assigned to the ISE for any recordings of events produced by the ISE. Unauthorised recording may result in content being destroyed, and your removal from the event without a ticket refund.
Programme changes
Due to unforeseen circumstances the programme may change and ISE reserves the right to alter the venue and/or speakers. Any substitutions or alterations will be updated on our website as soon as possible.
ISE reserves the right to cancel an event if enrolment criteria are not met or when conditions beyond its control prevail. Every effort will be made to contact each enrollee if a programme is cancelled. If a programme is not held for any reason, ISE's liability is limited to the refund of the programme fee only.
ISE is not responsible for any loss or damage as a result of a speaker substitution, alteration, cancellation, or postponement of an event. ISE shall assume no liability whatsoever if an event is altered, rescheduled, postponed or cancelled due to a fortuitous event or unforeseen occurrence that renders performance of an event inadvisable, illegal, impracticable or impossible.
For purpose of this clause, a fortuitous event shall include, but shall not be limited to: an Act of God; governmental restrictions and/or regulations; war or apparent act of war; terrorism or apparent act of terrorism: disaster; civil disorder, disturbance, and/or riots; curtailment, suspension, and/or restriction on transportation facilities/means of transportation; or any other emergency.
Registration and payment details
Payment must be made in sterling in advance of the event in order for your booking to be processed. If payment has not been received two weeks before the event, credit card details will be required to guarantee and process your booking.
Delegate Lists
At many of our events we distribute delegates lists to attendees. These lists consist of the full name and company name of all registered attendees, but do not include contact details such as email addresses. If you don’t want to be on the delegate list for an event, please let us know by emailing events@ise.org.uk
Intellectual Property Rights
As a delegate you may receive and possess the course/workshop materials and use and circulate the course materials within your organisation. You may not use the course materials for resale or in the development of a commercial product without the prior written consent of the ISE. The ownership of the course intellectual property rights remain with the ISE unless agreed otherwise in writing with the ISE.
Travel and accommodation
Delegates are responsible for the arrangement and payment of their own travel and accommodation, unless specified otherwise. There are occasions where ISE will arrange a special room rate at a number of hotels. If this is the case it will be detailed on the promotional literature and webpage for that event.
Additional requirements
Please notify ISE when booking (and at least one month before the event date) if you have any additional special requirements to guarantee availability e.g. dietary, wheelchair access, large print, hearing loop etc.
Dissatisfaction with an event
ISE takes complaints very seriously indeed and tries to ensure that all users are pleased with their experience of our service. Those persons who make a complaint will be dealt with courteously and promptly so that the matter is resolved as quickly as possible.
Our aim is to react to complaints in the way in which we would want our complaint about a service to be handled. We learn from every mistake that we make and we intend to respond to complainant's concerns in a professional manner.
Should an issue present itself whilst attending an ISE event, you are encouraged to raise this with a member of the ISE team working onsite. Wherever possible the team will endeavour to resolve any issues as the event takes place.
If you are dissatisfied with an event for any reason, please contact
Vivienne Wootten, Head of Events and Partnerships, by email to vivienne@ise.org.uk or write to Institute of Student Employers, 6 Bath Place, Rivington Street, London EC2A 3JE