Employability: What, when, where, how and for whom?
May 27 2021 | 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm AEST
Professor Dawn Bennett
Assitant Provost, Bond University
Michael Healy
Career Development Practitioner, University of Southern Queensland
Professor Jess Vanderlelie
Deputy Vice-Chancellor, La Trobe University
Troy Williams
Chief Executive Officer, Independent Tertiary Education Council Australia (ITECA)
Session Topics
- What employability and other skills do 21st century learners need?
- Does the learning experience we offer live up to our promises of relevant and compelling educational experiences?
- Is all the talk of skills and entrepreneurship in the context of Industry 4.0 and now COVID-19 helping or hindering the graduate employability agenda? Will the National Priorities and Industry Linkage Fund (NPILF) coalesce or splinter this agenda?
- How can the National Skills Commission (and the National Careers Institute) enable policy and practice to advance in ways of practical benefit to learners/workers for beneficial employability outcomes?
- How do we bring the professions, business and industry more closely into the employability frame in tertiary (HE and VET) education?
Relevant Resources
- Bennet, Developing EmployABILITY
- Healey, Why don't graduate employability and career development research talk to each other?
- Journal of Teaching and Learning for Graduate Employability
- Vanderlelie, Engaging Alumni For Employability Good Practice Guides
- ITECA The Seven Priorities For A Skilled And Educated Workforce: A Blueprint for the Next Australian Parliament
- Keynote talk: Is embedded employability a pipedream?
- Student employABILITY site with self-assessment tool and resource library
- Educator employABILITY site with resource library and expert guides
- National Priorities and Industry Linkage Fund (NPILF)
