Category: Employability and Graduate Success

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PACE Community of Practice: Save the Date: Addressing child marriage in Nepal

María Amigó, a PACE academic, shares her findings and experience of conducting evaluation research for one of PACE’s international partners, Restless Development Nepal. This is an example of how the PACE program can be leveraged to create research opportunities for...

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Tell your students: Careers Week 2019

Don't let your students miss out on opportunities to connect with industry, and research their options and pathways beyond graduation.

/ 18 July, 2019
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PACE Community of Practice: Principles-based thinking to guide decision-making for research ethics & PACE

The updated National Statement and the Australian Code are guidance documents setting out principles for research ethics and integrity. How can we use these documents to guide ethical research practice and governance in the PACE program?

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PACE Community of Practice: Equitable Student Access to Work-Integrated Learning

Work-integrated learning (WIL) is a valuable strategy to prepare graduates for their futures. However, not all students who want, or need, a WIL placement gain access to one. This raises an important question: how can organisations and universities work together...

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Connecting teaching and research through applied and engaged PACE units: A look at ECON381

In the current ERA environment, finding ways to engage with end-users of research is a challenge faced by all academics. ECON381 is a PACE and capstone unit that provides opportunities to connect directly with end-users of research while contributing to...

/ 2 May, 2019
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Passport to global employment: Preparing students for online interviews in a foreign language

Many of our students will enter an international job market in which video interviews and resumes are becoming increasingly common. To help our students to apply for jobs and internships internationally, we trialled a project preparing our students for video...

/ 11 April, 2019
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Do entrepreneurial skills enhance the employability of graduate engineers?

Integrating transferable enterprise skills into units by using MQIDEA to really boost student employability after graduation: find out more!

/ 28 March, 2019
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Team X – A Teamwork Experience to Support Student Employability

Team X, the output of a Strategic Priority Grant, presents teachers and learners with the resources needed to create meaningful and successful teamwork experiences across existing units and programs at Macquarie University.

/ 14 March, 2019