Learning and Teaching Symposium

Enhancing Graduate Employability

17th & 18th October, 2014 Bond University, Gold Coast

How do we enhance the employability of higher education graduates? The Australian Office for Learning and Teaching commissioned three strategic priority projects to research this question. The project led by Bond University, with institution partners, James Cook University, University of Southern Queensland and the Australian Council for Private Education and Training is hosting a Graduate Employability Symposium to share our findings and emerging solutions. The leaders of the other graduate employability projects will also be presenting their findings, promising an evidence-based and resource-rich symposium.

Attend & hear from:

Employers

Educators

Career Development Professionals

Students & Graduates

What distinguishes a top-performing graduate?

How do educators balance the curriculum between teaching skills, knowledge, theory and graduate attributes?

What does it mean to be ‘employable’ today?

Which successful strategies do students and graduates use?

See inside for more information and our key speakers.

Register now for this

FREE Symposium!

Key Speakers

MR DON KNAPP CEO, Australian University Sport

Education and Sports Administration Professional

Don’s professional background includes 15 years in education, and 20 years in sports management. Training and performance

management has been Don’s core professional focus in each of these areas.

Don is also a Doctoral Candidate at Southern Cross University, where his research topic is dual career education

(student-athletes access to success in sport and post sporting career).

The Symposium is an opportunity to foster conversations between students, graduates, employers and higher education (educators and career development professionals). The featured keynote presentations highlight the global Human Capital Taskforce strategic priorities and the highly successful case of competitive sport and employability. There will be panel presentations by higher education leaders, including DVCs and PVCs, employers, educators, graduates and students. There will be numerous opportunities for conversation, multiple perspectives, problem-solving, sharing resources and shaping new strategies. The symposium is situated in the exquisite Princeton Room of Bond University on the Gold Coast featuring catering from our celebrated events team.

MR DAVID ARKELL Leader – Human Resources GE Australia & New Zealand

David has over 25 years of global Human Resources experience across

Mining, Financial Services, Logistics and FMCG industries.

At GE, David partners with the A&NZ CEO and leadership team to develop GE's human capital strategy, enhance

their leadership pipeline and build their in-region HR capability in Organisation

& Talent Development, Talent Acquisition, HR Operations,

Compensation & Benefits, Learning and Development and Employee Relations.

This Symposium will highlight the positive, practical and evidence-based strategies

that improve and enhance graduate employability from the perspective of four

stakeholder groups.

What to expect from the Symposium

Online: https://events.bond.edu.au/register.aspx?id=%7b931BB168-8B22-E411-80D3-0050569C0F40%7d

Phone: (07) 5595 1293

Email: olt@bond.edu.au

COST: FREE

Support for this publication/activity has been provided by the Australian Government Office for Learning and Teaching. The views expressed in

this publication/activity do not necessarily reflect the views of the Australian Government Office for Learning and Teaching.

Speakers

PROFESSOR DARRELL EVANS Vice-Provost (Learning and Teaching)

Monash University

Professor Darrell Evans is responsible for the provision of transformational

senior level leadership of the University’s learning and teaching

strategic activities. Darrell is known as an energetic academic leader and has

extensive expertise in curriculum development, quality assurance /

enhancement and improvement and renewal agendas, and has been an active

contributor to local, national and international debate and outreach. Professor Evans has an academic background as an anatomist and

developmental biologist.

MS MEGHAN HOPPER President, Council of Australian

Postgraduate Associations (CAPA) Monash University

As President of CAPA, Meghan appears regularly in the media

speaking about issues relevant to the higher education sector and has led a number of CAPA campaigns. In

July 2013 Meghan was appointed to the Council of Monash University, where she is completing a PhD in political journalism and gender.

DAY 1 1:00 – 2:00 pm Symposium registration & networking

Coffee / Tea refreshments 2:00 – 2:15 pm Welcome 2:15 – 3:00 pm Keynote Employability and Human Capital

Host: Assoc. Professor Linda Crane, Bond University Mr David Arkell, Leader – Human Resources, GE Australia & New Zealand

3:00 – 3:30 pm Afternoon tea, discussion & networking 3:30 – 4:40 pm OLT Commissioned Projects

Chair: Professor Sally Kift, James Cook University • Assoc. Professor Shelley Kinash

Bond University • Professor Dawn Bennett

Curtin University • Assoc. Professor Margaret Jollands

RMIT University

4:30 – 5:30 pm Leadership Panel Chair: Assoc. Professor Angela Carbone, Monash University

• Professor Keitha Dunstan Bond University

• Professor Jill Downie Curtin University

• Professor Geoffrey Crisp RMIT University

5:30 – 6:30 pm Employer Panel Chair: Professor David Dowling, University of Southern Queensland

• Mr David Arkell GE Australia & New Zealand

• Ms Teigan Margetts Ericsson

• Ms Kearin Lowry McConachie Stedman

• Mr Rohan Holland, ReadyGrad

7:00 – 8:00 pm Dinner

Friday, 17 October 2014

8:15 – 8:30 am Overview of Day One, Welcome to Day Two 8:30 – 9:15 am Breakfast 9:15 – 10:00 am Keynote Competitive Sport and Employability

Host: Assoc. Professor Linda Crane, Bond University Mr Don Knapp, CEO Australian University Sport

10:00 – 11:00 am Graduate Panel Chair: Mr Matthew McLean

• Ms Meghan Hopper Council of Australian Postgraduate Associations

• Mr Bryan Leong GE Australia & New Zealand

• Mr Hugh Minson, Nexus Notes • Ms Hollie Gordon, Milaana

11:00 – 11:45 am Student Panel Chair: Ms Madelaine-Marie Judd

• Mr Zen Knezevic, Bond University • Mr Rupert Holden, Bond University • Mr Jake Rischbieth, Bond University • Ms Madison Hoffman, The University of

Queensland 11:45 am – 12:30 pm

Educator Panel Chair: Dr Cecily Knight

• Mr Mark Tolson, Victoria University • Dr Sara Booth, University of Tasmania • Professor Darrell Evans, Monash University • Adjunct Professor Grace Lynch

RMIT University

12:30 – 1:15 pm Lunch

1:15 – 2:00 pm Career Development Professionals Panel Chair: Ms Kirsty Mitchell

• Mr Martin Smith University of Wollongong

• Ms Margo Baas Griffith University

• Dr Alan McAlpine Queensland University of Technology

2:00 – 3:00 pm Closing and Practical Goal Setting Assoc. Professor Shelley Kinash

DAY 2 Saturday, 18 October 2014

Speakers

MR MARTIN SMITH Director, Graduate Career

Development and Employability University of Wollongong

Martin Smith has worked at the interface between education and the world of work for 25 years. Martin has held

national leadership roles within professional bodies such as the National

Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Services (Past President) and Graduate Careers Australia (Director). Examining the contribution of Career

Development Learning to Work Integrated Learning has been a research focus, as part of an Australian Learning & Teaching Council Scoping Project in

2008-2009. He has recently been appointed to the role of President,

Career Industry Council of Australia.

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PROFESSOR GEOFFREY CRISP Dean, Learning and Teaching

RMIT University

Geoff developed his passion for learning and teaching by seeking innovative

approaches to enhancing the student learning experience in Chemistry. Geoff

made the permanent move to educational and staff development and online learning when he was appointed the Director of the Centre for Learning and Professional Development in 2002. Geoff has received several awards for

learning and teaching and is an Australian Learning and Teaching

Council Fellow (Associate 2006 and National 2009).

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR SHELLEY KINASH

Director of Learning & Teaching Bond University

Associate Professor Shelley Kinash is the Director of Learning & Teaching at Bond

University. Her PhD is in Education Technology from the University of

Calgary, Canada. She is leading two national Office for Learning and

Teaching research projects – a commissioned project on graduate employability and a seed project on

student evaluation.

http://works.bepress.com/shelley_kinash

Venue: Princeton Room, Bond University 14 University Drive, Gold Coast Qld 4226

Where to Stay:

Jupiter’s Hotel & Casino Gold Coast Highway, Broadbeach Island Gold Coast Qld 4218 To Reserve Special Rates: Quote ‘Bond University Graduate Employability Symposium’

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“The secret to enhancing graduate employability is offering a plus and that plus has at least four components. First, graduates have

to be sustainability literate. Number two, they have to be change implementation savvy.

Number three, they have got to be creative and inventive. The fourth plus is that every graduate

should have come to their own personal reflective position on the tacit assumptions

driving the 21st Century agenda. It's the plus that is going to allow universities to support the

leaders of tomorrow.”

- Geoff Scott

Fullan, M. & Scott, G. (2014). New pedagogies for deep learning whitepaper: Education PLUS. Seattle, Washington: Collaborative Impact SPC.