ECU has the following academic areas:
1. Arts and Humanities
2. Business and Law
3. Education
4. Engineering
5. Medical and Health Sciences
6. Nursing and Midwifery
7. Science
8. Western Australian Academic of Performing Arts
9. Kurongkurl Katitjin
The School of Business and Law has a Director WIL. This position also assumes additional responsibility for student employment outcomes as a key KPI for the School; developing strong T&L research culture in student employability and mentoring junior academics wishing to work in this space; working with Careers staff; and Alumni and other University service centres to improve outcomes for students. The position reports to the ADTL who reports to the School Executive. The School embeds employability into the curriculum and has units which explicitly target non-technical skill development, career development learning and professional identity development in the Management discipline and Will units through the Management, Law, Business Services and Commerce discipline. The employability agenda for the School is a shared task which the executive coordinate.
All Schools, with professional accreditation requirements, have dedicated leadership roles in employability functions. For example, in the School of Nursing and Midwifery and the School of Education has dedicated staff positions for practicums and Clinical Placements. This includes, in the School of Nursing and Midwifery, a Coordinator of Clinical Placements covering both nursing and midwifery. In addition, the Executive Dean maintains exceptionally close relationships with Nursing Directors at public and private hospitals as well as with the Chief Nursing Officer in the Department of Health. Likewise, there is a WIL Coordinator in the Schools of Science with a dedicated team.
As above (question 11 2.1), membership of the Employability Committee includes The Dean (Learning and Teaching) from each Academic group of the University. There are four Academic groups at Griffith (Arts, Education and Law; Business; Health; and Sciences) and each are represented on the Employability Committee. There are also four academic staff members of the University on the Committee, with one member from each Academic group. Currently these include the Deputy Dean (Learning and Teaching) for the Arts, Education and Law group, the Head of Department (Employment Relations and Human Resources) for Griffith Business, the Program Director for Griffith Health, and the Deputy Head of School, Natural Sciences for Griffith Sciences.
Yes, ICMS is still a relatively small institution and a dedicated WIL Office (within the DVC L&T Department) takes the lead on employability matters at the ICMS Faculty level and across our broader business units i.e. the Aspire Foundation and the International Sports College of Australia.
The dedicated WIL Office includes the WIL Manager (1), WIL Placement Facilitators (4), WIL Assessment Facilitator (1) and an Administrator (1).
Employability leadership at a Faculty level is the responsibility of the Associate Deans Academic (ADA’s). These positions determine how Student Strategy Employability Initiative funding is spent at a Faculty and/or School level and has control over the employability activities and initiatives that are offered locally. Through Collaborative Agreements, the AD's work closely with the Director, Student Employability, to ensure alignment of Faculty and School initiatives with the UQ Employability Framework as well as to identify synergies across the institution that could be leveraged and to avoid duplication of services.
At an operational level, several Faculties have established Employability Teams. The Managers of these teams are responsible for the day to day delivery of employability programs and support to students. The UQ Collaborative embedded approach (diagram can be provided) facilitates effective communication for the benefit of student employability as a whole. Centrally appointed Career Development Advisers and Work Integrated Learning Advisers are deployed into each Faculty to provide additional support and service that is discipline specific and locally delivered, but that is also connected through UQ Student Employability Centre to other Faculties in order to facilitate sharing of information and best practice.
SAE has allocated leadership for employability related matters at the Institute (college level) in the form a Director of Student Experience, at the campus level in terms of Industry Liaison Coordinators for Work Integrated Learning and Employability support, Faculty who deliver key elements of curriculum relating to employability and at a curriculum design level in the form of Program Committees and a Learning and Teaching Committee.
The Swinburne Advantage activities being Professional Degrees, Accreditation placements and Industry Link Projects are part of an accredited course so therefore managed by the Faculty academic staff, Course Directors with assistance provided by Unit Convenors. The Industry Study Tours are often included for students as part of a course as an elective choice (run in summer/winter teaching period) and therefore conversations would need to take place with the relevant Course Director or Faculty staff, however students can contact the WIL Convenor located within the Swinburne Advantage team.
The Professional Placements and Internships activities are managed centrally through the Swinburne Advantage Professional Placement team; however, this is conducted in collaboration with Faculty staff. The Professional Placement team are responsible for the management of placements and agreements, promotion of placements, selection of students and coordinating with other areas for student preparation and enrolment. The Professional Placement team have assigned Coordinators for each discipline area who work closely with the Faculty Discipline Academic Supervisor and Faculty WIL Coordinator. The Discipline Academic Supervisor is an academic who provides academic oversight and assessment for a student enrolled in a Professional Placement unit of study, whilst the Faculty WIL Coordinator is an academic who provides oversight and coordination across the Faculty or School.
The individual Professional Placement units have a unit convenor who in collaboration with the Faculty WIL Coordinators are responsible for curriculum and assessment design as a Professional Placement Unit Team. Additionally, the Student Engagement Careers Development Unit provides student preparation and support services to ensure students reach their desired outcomes aligning with their Professional Purpose. The Swinburne Advantage Professional Team with the Faculty WIL Coordinator ensure that the Discipline Academic Supervisor has completed the training module prior to the Faculty WIL Coordinator being able to allocate their role to each placement.
The University within the Student Engagement portfolio convenes a WIL Community of Practice with membership drawn from academic and professional staff. Their role is to support a program of organisational change focusing on developing WIL as key educational theme across the university. The WIL Community of Practice will
In Learning and Teaching: Associate Professor, Curriculum Innovation and Development; Senior Lecturer -Curriculum Innovation and Development
In Student Experience: Executive Director, Student Experience; Director, Student Retention and Success; Senior Lecturer Student Retention and Success
In the Colleges - Associate Deans (Learning and Teaching; Managers, Professional Experience Placement; Outreach and Placement Officers; Academic Leads, Experiential Learning and so on.
As for 2.1, leadership of the employability strategy is centrally managed by the Centre for Student Success. Each College and the VU Polytechnic has developed a College Employability Action Plan to improve graduate outcomes. This work is supported in the Colleges through of staff ranging from Directors of Learning & Teaching, Course Chairs, Unit Conveners, placement and WIL staff. Centrally, the Centre for student success also employs 3 Careers Advisors that offer, workshops and drop ins at each campus.
Currently within the Head of Industry Engagement role but this is not across the degree
As highlighted earlier (11 2.1), the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) leads employability at an institutional level; employability is also a shared responsibility at Faculty and Department level. Implicitly, Executive Deans are accountable for employability at course-level and hold responsibility for providing a quality-driven, research informed and contemporary curriculum to students through excellence in teaching, and ensuring learning and teaching quality, innovation and capability to deliver innovative and industry relevant courses.
Both PACE and Careers and Employment Services staff are embedded within all Faculties. Generally, all Associate Deans (Learning and Teaching) and Learning and Teaching Directors are closely engaged with PACE, Careers and Employment Services staff either leading and/or supporting the employability agenda across the governance structures in each Faculty. Across Departments and Schools there are similarly ranging levels of engagement and demonstration of student employability and or WIL programming (other than PACE and Careers and Employment Services).
A stand-out Faculty-led project supporting student employability is the Lucy Mentoring program. “Lucy†is an innovative leadership program for women students in the Faculty of Business and Economics. It aims to encourage the development of women who, given the right opportunities and support, will become our future leaders. This is achieved by establishing relationships between students and mentors who are working as professionals. Mentors are usually senior executives from the public, private and not-for-profit sectors.
All the schools have existing roles with responsibility for teaching and learning across the school such as Directors of Teaching and Learning, Deputy Deans and at course level DAPs and unit coordinators. Employability within the curriculum has predominantly been subsumed into these roles, though some schools have created more focussed positions such as the Director of Professional Experience in the School of Education or the Director of Engagement in the School of Humanities, Communication and Arts.
Not currently. Discipline Chairs have a leadership role through governance of courses, including regular and ongoing courses reviews and renewal projects to ensure that all courses offered continue to reflect the ACAP Graduate Attributes (refer 1.2 above) and assure students' attainment of these. .
There are not specific roles delegated for employability at this level but staff at a Faculty/College/School level do take responsibility for employability characteristics. For example, in the Vet Programme there is a lot of discussion in the profession around the importance of non-technical skills for employability such as empathy, business acumen and communication skills. The Vet school employs a staff member who is concerned with this aspect of the programme.
There is no explicit or dedicated leadership of the employability agenda at a school level, although it could be linked to Associate Deans Learning and Teaching and Associate Deans Engagement where appointed. Murdoch University is soon moving away from having 8 schools to a 2 college model. A Dean (Learning and Teaching) and a Dean (Engagement) are proposed and these roles will share responsibility for leadership and implementation of Employability related activities in the Colleges.
Faculties have staff dedicated to WIL. See point 1.8
Faculties have alumni positions dedicated to mentoring and alumni engagement:
Art & Design, Arts & Social Sciences, Built Environment and UNSW Canberra
Business, Law
Engineering, Medicine and Science
The Manager, Alumni Networks & Services looks after services for alumni which includes connecting alumni with current students.
The proposed "USC Student Employability Strategy 2018 - 2020 Increasing Student Employability: Moving from Discussion to Strategy" has 3 key goals and the first is to "create and foster an employability culture at USC. The strategy proposes to "establish a WIL reference group to provide USC with leadership in the expansion of WIL opportunities for students at USC". See 2.4.
No, but members of the WIL Strategy Working Group are from faculties and other interested parties across the University. Members of the group are influences in their areas and decisions made by the Group will have an impact on their roles at UWA.
The Job titles of the WIL Strategy Working Group members are as follows:
1. Pro Vice-Chancellor (Education) as Chair
2. Associate Professor, Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering as Co-Chair
3. Academic Coordinator, McCusker Centre for Citizenship
4. Associate Dean, Teaching and Learning, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences
5. Associate Dean, Teaching and Learning, Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Education
6. Associate Director, Development, Development & Alumni Relations
7. Associate Director, Educational Enhancement Strategy
8. Associate Director, Industry Engagement
9. Associate Director, Service and Engagement, Student Services
10. Deputy Head, Education, School of Design
11. Director, Co-operative Education for Enterprise Development (CEED)
12. Education Council President
13. Educational Researcher, Educational Enhancement Unit
14. Executive Officer, Office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education)
15 Lecturer, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry
16. Manager, Careers Centre
Leadership of the employability agenda is delegated to faculties and schools to implement according to industry requirements and discipline focus. An overview of each faculty was provided in question 1.8. However, there are no positions that are dedicated entirely to employability or WIL.
However, this does depend on the discipline