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Bond UniversityResearch Repository
Provocations: Work and life readinessKinash, Shelley
Published: 05/11/2015
Document Version:Peer reviewed version
Link to publication in Bond University research repository.
Recommended citation(APA):Kinash, S. (2015). Provocations: Work and life readiness. Australasian Council on Open, Distance and e-Learning, Adelaide, Australia.
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Provocations: Work and life readinessShelley KinashBond university, [email protected]
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“The death of intellectualism, with more emphasis on job skills. It is not what university is meant to be anyways, job skills should be on the job, university should really be about
the pedagogical process and that is not our focus. As a result, academics are not given the opportunity to really
showcase their skills within the university setting in a way that they should.”
From a student.
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In the business of higher education we build it,
expect them to come and then go forth and prosper. and prosper.
u Does this process work?
u Does the outcome work?
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Overall students tend to feel devalued
u “Get us through the door and then forget us.” (From a student).
u Question this? Ask postgraduate students who have been out in industry (valued) and returned to be students (devalued).
u Postgraduate students driving national innovation.
u How can we honour, embrace and champion students building their graduate capacity?
u If students are customers, then do we risk abandoning those who need us for those who can ‘afford’ us? 8
“You cannot solely be a skills focused university
that only cares about the student experience.”
From a student.
Image from: Full Stop. http://www.full-stop.net/2015/06/17/features/nika-knight/dismantling-the-university/
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The crowded curriculum
u Graduates report that the most value of their university experience came from what they did ‘beyond the classroom.’
u Employers – do not interview straight HDs (Millionaire Mind)
u Are we over-crowding the curriculum so that we are obstructing this?
“I would go anywhere where there’s a permanent position; however I’ve been told by the workforce out there that I’m unemployable. So I’ve spent 10 years perfecting a CV that’s suited to academia, which essentially, I’m told that I can’t
even get a job answering phones with.”From an academic / PhD student.
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“Are we seeing people as our greatest asset and resource and treating them accordingly? Or are we
seeing them as an objectified resource that is disposable? I think that is the early 21st-century question in the workplace across all domains.”