EDF5762 · Enhancing education to work transitions and employability

Overview

Within today’s globalized and uncertain labour markets, the connection between education and work has gone far beyond the notion of using a qualification/degree to obtain stable employment. Your post-study career success is determined by your capacities in both securing immediate employment and sustaining employment. This unit is, therefore, designed to facilitate your successful education-to-work transitions and your employability sustainability. In particular, it will look at aspects including: gaps between the worlds of education and work with a focus on examining how curricular and extra-curricular activities prepare you for requirements and expectations of industries, issues facing young people on education-to-work transitions and required resources for successful education-to-work transitions and employability sustainability. A particular theme in this unit will be how these aspects occur and are applied to students with specific needs that derive from their life situations; for example: migrants, international students and students with special needs. Obtaining insights about these aspects will enable you to critically evaluate the roles of schools and universities and other stakeholders in preparing and supporting you for post-study career development. You should also be able to identify plausible career pathways and effective strategies for successful employability negotiation.

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

Learning outcomes

1. understand how global trends and local contexts affect young people's learning, work, identities and well-being in schools and post-schooling contexts
2. obtain insights about contemporary career and employability theories and concepts
3. understand the diverse needs and identities of young people in education-to-work transitions
4. practise and advance skills in developing and utilising some key resources to enhance education-to-work transitions and employability sustainability
5. obtain insights about how schools and universities prepare students for education-to-work transitions and how other stakeholders should be involved in this process
6. be able to analyse personal resources like skills, knowledge and personal qualities as well as critically analyse career values and develop plausible career plans/pathways as well as identify necessary resources for employability sustainability.

Workload

The minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per teaching period comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. Usually, you can expect to engage with: • 12 hours of scheduled learning delivered on campus via weekly/regular directed learning activities, 12 hours of scheduled learning delivered online via a combination of synchronous and asynchronous directed learning activities, and the remaining hours to be allocated towards self-directed/independent study OR • 24 hours of scheduled learning delivered online via a combination of synchronous and asynchronous directed learning activities, and the remaining hours to be allocated towards self-directed/independent study^ ^ International students studying in Australia are not permitted to undertake this scheduled learning delivery mode Scheduled learning activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.