Category: Student Success
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...
Widening Participation in 2018 – A Year in Review
The Pro Vice-Chancellor, Programs and Pathways, Professor Sean Brawley, guided the University’s Widening Participation Unit (WPU) to strategically and proactively respond to sectoral changes around equity in higher education. The new approach, outlined in the Widening Participation Strategic Framework 2018...
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!
Want to reduce plagiarism among your students? Get them to play this game!
Educators can use gamification to keep students motivated when delivering potentially dry content: check out Amanda's academic integrity boardgame!
Welcome to Team X
Team X stands alone or can be tailored to the needs of your students. Use it online, face-to-face or in a blended format – the choice is yours.
Enhancing professional practice through video
Using video technology for assessments can enhance professional growth and reflective practice of teacher education students and their supervisors.
Engaging Students from Equity Groups
2019 HEPPP funded LEAP PEGS initiatives The Pro Vice-Chancellor Programs and Pathways, Professor Sean Brawley, along with the Widening Participation Unit (WPU) warmly congratulates the successful applicants of 2019 LEAP – PEGS ( Partnerships Engagement Grant Scheme) Nearly thirty different...
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.
From fauna to flora: engaging students in species identification
An SPG grant that helps students untangle themselves from the invertebrate web of confusion and remain engaged and interested in research projects that answer meaningful questions.