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What have we done? What have we discovered? Find the answers to these questions and more in our blog.
What capabilities do graduates need?
Higher education is in the difficult position of preparing students for an unknown world; for lives and jobs that do not yet exist.
Why is offering our students co-curicula and extra-curricula experiences not enough? And a brilliant idea all the way from Scotland
Simon Riley and Gavin McCabe from the University of Edinburgh have developed what is in effect a blank canvas course that can be populated with individual or group projects based around virtually any topic. They have developed a flexible reflective experiential learning and assessment framework using an e-portfolio for awarding credit. They have been kind enough to share the details of their course with the team at the Future Ready Grads project. Simon and Gavin call these courses SLICCs (Student-Led, Individually Created Courses) and they are pure genius.
Attending the ‘Embedding Employability in the Curriculum’ workshop at HERDSA 2020
By Edward ElderI had probably only worked on the Future Ready Grads project one day a week for about a month when I clawed my way into the workshop room with more baggage under my eyes than I travel with (thanks to it being exam marking season). In other...
Community of Interest in Employability
Yesterday I joined a group of academics and listened to senior staff from Auckland Council, XERO, KiwiRail and MYOB talk about the characteristics they seek in graduates. It was fascinating. They illustrated how important it is for us to develop our students’ abilities to learn and learn fast, to be adaptable, communicative, culturally aware and collaborative.
Applying translational research principles to the Future Ready Grads Project
It was very important that the ideas developed in the Future Ready Grads project were developed and delivered in ways that people would use them. To this end, the project team have tried to apply the principles of good translational research using Mitchell’s (2016) guidance.
The 4Es model to embed employability in the curriculum
After nearly two years of research, we have developed a theoretically informed model that aims to help teaching staff incorporate pedagogies that enable the development of employability capabilities…
Non-traditional students and employability outcomes
A key focus of our project is to broaden our understanding of employability development and how we make development opportunities more accessible to students…
employABILITY for students
Australian Office for Learning and Teaching Senior National Teaching Fellow Dawn Bennett has developed a self-assessment tool with which students can create a personalised employABILITY profile. This forms part of a brand new Student...
Pedagogies for Employability
‘Curriculum Transformation Drivers’ was one of three key themes at the 2017 HERDSA conference held in Sydney in June 2017. If you’re working in higher education, you’d know that employability is a key reason for curriculum transformation…
University and beyond: embedding employability and life into the curriculum
Embedding Employability skills into academic curricula is a key concern for universities and tertiary education institutions today. This topic was the focus of a University of Auckland Business School (UABS) workshop on the 12th June entitled ‘University and beyond:...
Embedding employability in the curriculum workshop – the challenges teachers face
Embedding employability in the curriculum workshop TERNZ Conference, 1 December 2016 The University of Otago, Dunedin If you read our post on the Future Ready Graduates workshop, you would have seen that participants know how to embed employability in the curriculum,...
Mission almost impossible: how do we prepare future ready graduates?
Future Ready Graduates – Special Interest Group Workshop TERNZ Conference, 30 November 2016 The University of Otago, Dunedin Employability, graduate profile attributes, work-ready, transferable skills, capabilities... If you’re working in the tertiary...
