Giorgi's Qualitative Research approach

I have been working with an ex-student Cara Ivers on transcribing a one hour debrief in July 2006 on a 'ba' learning session held during the academic year 2005-06. It is a time consuming business. We have not got to the four steps yet! But it is a way forward, a way of digging deeper into what the students felt, and said, about their group learning and their personal learning.
I was struck by how vividly Cara seems to remember some of the small details in what we did in our weekly Learning Coach sessions.
Cara described feeling sorry for many final year students, for they had few positive memories of their project work in the final year of an undergraduate programme.
It is also the case so few students have been inspired to create a new business and new jobs. It sems there is an unexamined assumption working here: a job is something "you go out and get" rather than "create". I wished I had explored that theme in the 'ba' sessions.
In the last seven years I have probably seen 700 final year students pass through my hands on BSc Multimedia, yet only three out of 700 have created jobs.
There is just one seemingly successful example, Mediatonic, which seems to be doing well. If there is one number the UK Government should require in its returns from Universities it is this one: "State the number of jobs created by your ex-students in the last seven years and thereby identify the secret of job creation by your students and relate it to your approaches as an institution to innovation and enterprise.
The results of such a trawl of universities of their ex-students in creating jobs would be a fascinating read. No doubt they would be a strong attractor, too, to potential students. I would suggest as an initial hypothesis high numbers of jobs created would be associated with a strong culture of Self-Organised Learning (SOL). Which is something very few UK Universities have.

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