Work Integrated Learning includes placements, internships and work experience. It is increasing as students are expected to be more work-ready and to contribute to the economy post-graduation.
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Work placements are leaving many students with high debts.
Rust Belt youth often want to stay near home but can’t find jobs. The key may be in educational initiatives that help young people find and acquire the jobs that are already readily available.
A new study quantifies unpaid work experience in Australia and shows how some young people miss out.
Students who complete internships at university are better at managing their careers and are satisifed with their career choices, research shows.
Internships can have direct and indirect costs that may exclude some who can’t afford them.
There isn’t a lot of research on whether an internship will secure you a job.
Employers run the risk of breaking the law if they are getting interns to do work that otherwise would be done by paid employees.
The path to employment is not easy for a young person. Follow the lines in our flow chart to see the many different pathways young people might have to take to secure a job.
It is time to have an open and honest discussion about who is – and isn’t – being trained to secure the future of our world’s health at the World Health Organization headquarters.
Even though America claims to be a society based on hard work and meritocracy, rewards go only to those with the right college degree.
The use of unpaid internships in the human rights sector has ballooned in recent years. While human rights bodies have employed interns in a general work experience capacity for decades, the last few years…
In Australia, interns rarely get paid. Students and prospective employees undertake internships in order to skill themselves in the industry they wish to work in and to get a foot in the door. Issues arise…
It is often said that, without interns, London Fashion Week wouldn’t run at all. At last year’s edition of the event, representatives from this usually invisible workforce made an appearance, demonstrating…
“At the moment, we’ve got international graduates who are getting preference over Australian doctors in some states.” - Australian Medical Association president Steve Hambleton, National Press Club Address…
The term “precariat” conveys the idea that the old working class, the proletariat, has transmuted into a new social class where work and life are characterised by precariousness and risk. While the old…
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Associate Professor of Adult and Higher Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Professor / Director of Work-Integrated Learning (WIL) programs, ECU School of Business and Law, Edith Cowan University
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Professor, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of Education, Concordia University
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Former Senior Lecturer, UTS Business School, University of Technology Sydney
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John Bray Professor of Law, University of Adelaide
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Professor of Work and Organisation, Queensland University of Technology
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Research Associate, School of Social Sciences, Monash University
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Professor and Director of the Centre for Youth Policy and Education Practice, Monash University
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Professor of Higher Education, Flinders University
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Lecturer in Design, Goldsmiths, University of London
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Director, MA Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship, Goldsmiths, University of London
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Professor of Health Economics, Monash University
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