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Abstract Examining learning in work-integrated learning (WIL) courses is complex. WIL traverses work and university spaces, which can be challenging for the way student learning is conceived, planned, supported, assessed and reported. This study strengthens our understanding of how students learn on placement by going directly to the source and observing learning unfold, in situ. Using an ethnographic methodology, this study adopts Schatzki’s (1996, 2010) practice-based lens to illuminate how students learn to embody and accomplish their assigned tasks on WIL placement. Findings suggest tha...

Abstract Work-integrated Learning (WIL) can be a vehicle for the development of students’ work-ready skills. This paper presents the views of undergraduate business students and academics about the role and perceived importance of work-ready skills in the business curriculum and the perceived role of WIL activities in enabling the development of work-ready skills. A total of 50 business students and 24 academics from a number of faculties across the university participated. While students and academics both agree that a combination of on and off campus WIL activities are most effective for ...

March 1, 2021 "[T]he pandemic has revealed the need to develop resilient and sustainable systems and economies that leverage digital technologies as a tool for youth empowerment" On the African continent, where almost 60% of people are under the age of 25, the COVID-19 crisis has exacerbated preexisting inequalities, deepening young people's intersecting vulnerabilities. Despite the fact that many of them live in hard-to-reach areas with no access to electricity, young people in sub-Saharan Africa have in many cases used digital tech to transform their lives and c...

The world of work is changing so rapidly that many young people entering tertiary studies can not be sure if their chosen career will exist once their studies are completed.  The question is no longer about whether a machine can do the job better on an assembly line; but whether Artificial Intelligence, processing massive, disparate data in a moment, will predict, diagnose, and highlight solutions faster and more accurately than humans. Technology is radically shaping our near future, and we are hard-pressed to find clear assertions that humans can do better than our extraordinary innovation...

Abstract This article considers the intersection between two major themes in university policy: the improvement of participation by rural and regional communities and the dimension of graduate employability. It argues that work-integrated learning has the potential to address both themes, but that the development of an apprenticeship model for prestige degrees such as law may deliver additional benefits to rural and regional student engagement. It considers a radical approach to employability by the reintroduction of the apprenticeship approach in disciplines of law and accounting specificall...