Embedding employability in the curriculum: preparing future ready graduates
Our primary aim is to prepare graduates for their future lives and careers!
As part of an Ako Aotearoa national funded project, representatives from several tertiary institutions and the New Zealand Association of Graduate Employers have partnered to discover, trial and disseminate means of embedding employability in the curriculum.
We will build understanding of effective curriculum based and co-curricula pedagogies for developing and evidencing employability attributes.
We will trial and evaluate effective practices across settings.
We will build understanding of the mechanisms and assessment techniques for incorporating and recognising co-curricula, life and employment experiences within degree programmes.
We will build and disseminate a guiding framework and tools for lecturers, programme designers and leaders in learning and teaching.
The Four Es of Employability
The 4Es of Employability model will provide small but impactful ways to encourage deep learning of disciplinary knowledge and graduate capabilities.
Our tried and tested materials can be used and adapted to run your own workshops.
The 4Es model to embed employability in the curriculum
By Qian Liu 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. The 2018 TERNZ (Tertiary Education...
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Non-traditional students and employability outcomes
By Narissa Lewis A key focus of our project is to broaden our understanding of employability development and how we make development opportunities more accessible to students. While embedded approaches are ideal, students may develop...
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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...
read moreMeet the team
Susan Geertshuis
University of Auckland
Helena Cooper-Thomas
Auckland University of Technology
Rob Wass
University of Otago
Jennifer Curtin
University of Auckland
Narissa Lewis
University of Auckland
Peta Mobberly
University of Auckland
Gavin Brown
University of Auckland
Barbara Kensington-Miller
University of Auckland
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