Dear
colleagues,
A
project funded by the Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) is
developing online surveys to canvas perceptions of graduate employability
from the perspectives of students, employers and course teaching teams.
There is an opportunity to participate in the pilot of the surveys: the project
is willing to share resources and set up and report data for courses or
departments within and beyond Australia. Data will potentially enable
benchmarking with a focus on graduate employability at the discipline level.
I thought this might be an interesting opportunity to
compare perceptions of graduate employability on an international scale within
the Geosciences. As there is no funding attached to this work it would have to
be very small-scale – perhaps one course in one institution per country. Although
this might not be a large enough dataset for a true international comparison,
it would be a very useful and interesting starting point to identify key
issues, differences in discourse and perception. I have discussed this idea
with the PI (Beverley Oliver) and she is keen for our discipline to be
involved.
I anticipate that involvement would require a commitment to
encouraging / enabling your students, employer-contacts and fellow colleagues
to complete an online survey. The project will analyse and report the data.
If you would be interested in getting involved please let me
know as soon as possible. It would be great if the Geosciences could provide an
international perspective to this project. Please forward this message to
anyone else who might be interested.
For more information go to http://web.me.com/beverleyoliver1/benchmarking/About.html
and follow the link to Graduate Employability Indicators.
All the best,
Helen
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Helen
King Consultancy
Personal
& Professional Development in Higher Education
http://www.helenkingconsultancy.co.uk
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