To improve employability, tertiary education should recalibrate provision to focus additionally on ensuring students acquire skills useful in the current and future labour market and improve how they make those identifiable to employers. Key steps include identifying what those skills are, examining whether the curriculum and learning experience delivers on them and embedding micro-credentials for skills in degree pathways, expert speakers told ACU 2025 Congress, the annual conference of the Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU) hosted at the University of Nairobi, Kenya, on 26 to 28 November.