With Graduates expecting high quality access to work integrated learning, universities and industry must adapt to student needs in order to increase employability outcomes. There is clearly a gap between what employers are expecting and what universities are providing, with the number of graduates finding full-time employment, within four months of finishing their degrees falling from a high of 85.2% in 2008 to 72.9% in 2018. For some degrees, however, the rate is as low as 52.2 per cent.
With this in mind, the Graduate Employability Summit has been developed to discuss strategies to respond to skills shortages and changes in the labor market through industry engagement programs, graduate employability focused curriculums and vocational education training pathways.
Key discussion points will include:
- Creating a culture that values work integrated learning and the soft, transferrable skills it provides
- Integrated Work Integrated Learning into the curriculum to increase graduate employability outcomes
- Providing students with educational opportunities that adapt to the modern workforce and are flexible with students needs
Student Employability Centric Culture
Creating a culture that values work integrated learning and the soft, transferrable skills it provides.
Leadership in Work Integrated Learning
Embracing work integrated learning within the curriculum to improve student employability.
Creating Partnership Opportunities
Providing students with educational opportunities that adapt to the modern workforce and are flexible with student needs. digital world
Exclusive insights from leaders at the forefront of graduate employability
Featured speakers
Director of Student Employability
University of Birmingham
Pro Vice-Chancellor
La Trobe University
Academic Director WIL Central Office of the Pro-Vice Chancellor Education
UNSW
Director of Developing Employability & Creative Workforce Initiatives
Curtin University
Deputy Vice Chancellor Education
University of Sydney
Senior Lecturer Griffith Business School
Griffiths University
Director, Student Employability
The University of Queensland
Who Will You Meet
- Work Integrated Learning
- Industry Engagement
- Employability and Creative Workforce
- Work Integrated Learning Placement Facilitator
- Work Integrated Learning Adviser
- Employability and Graduate Success
- Careers and Employability
- Curriculum
- Industry Partnerships
Key Topics to be Explored:
- Digital Economy
- Critical Skills
- Graduate employability
- Career Pathways
- Partnerships
- Curriculum
- Apprentices
- Project based learning
- Service Learning
- Creative disruption
- Industry Engagement
- Future ready attributes
- Entrepreneurial skills
- Higher Education Pathways
- Work simulations
- Industry projects
