Current Institution: University of New England
Fellowship: ALTC Teaching Fellowship at University of New England
Fellowship Duration: 2009 - 2012
Employability is defined as a set of skills, understandings and personal attributes that graduates should have in order to succeed in their careers. The fellow�s completed ALTC Discipline Study (Benchmarking Archaeology Degrees in Australian Universities 2007-2008) studied one aspect of employability. But how can humanities disciplines improve graduate employability even further?
Suggested means to improvement are: a) to jointly develop employability profiles; b) to explore the development of collaborative teaching; and c) to encourage other disciplines in humanities to adopt the subject benchmarking process. This activity is important because it will implement and map cross-institutional approaches to improving employability in archaeology, as well as explicitly disseminating the results to other disciplines, for the first time.
The proposed outcomes are: nationally-agreed principles for the provision of collaborative teaching in archaeology; general guidance for the articulation of appropriate employability profiles; and process development for sustainable cross-institutional benchmark development.
Disciplines: Archaeology, Humanities, Social Science
The Australian Learning and Teaching Fellows’ network (ALTF) was established in 2011 with support from the Australian Government Office for Learning and Teaching. The network comprises over 100 scholars who are well placed geographically, institutionally and within their discipline communities to promote and sustain effective learning and teaching in Australian higher education, now and into the future.
The Australian Learning and Teaching Fellows’ network (ALTF) was established in 2011 with support from the Australian Government Office for Learning and Teaching. The network comprises over 100 scholars who are well placed geographically, institutionally and within their discipline communities to promote and sustain effective learning and teaching in Australian higher education, now and into the future.