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 (Gleason, 2018). Writers agree that the future will be characterised predominantly by its uncertainty and rapid change (Ehlers &...

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 employability skills through...

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 Employability Starter Kit. Dawn’s...

Pedagogies for Employability

By Narissa Lewis ‘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 and the...