KickStart: Pre-commencement Engagement Strategy - Staff - Macquarie University. Academic preparation and motivation have been identified as important factors for student success.
Being well-prepared puts students into a good position to have a successful start to their semester. Currently, students have only limited information about their units of study prior to the commencement of the session. In response to this gap, the KickStart initiative was introduced in FBE under the leadership of Prof. Leigh Wood and Dr Yvonne Breyer. The successful first pilot was launched in 2014 and has led to the project becoming a Strategic Initiative funded by the PVC (L&T) office and being currently implemented across all four Faculties.
Two weeks prior to Week 1, KickStart packages help students familiarise themselves with their convenors, and the unit content. Below are some links that describe the KickStart project in more detail. If you would like to implement KickStart for your unit (and we highly encourage it) please contact us (see details at bottom of this page). Abstract. Curriculum Mapping - Macquarie University. What is Curriculum Mapping?
Curriculum mapping is a systematic documentation of what the student experiences in the course of their studies. This process is useful to view various aspects of the curriculum such as the development of Graduate Capabilities, generic and/or discipline specific skills, accreditation requirements etc. It can also be used to check for alignment between curriculum elements such as learning outcomes, teaching/learning activities and assessment tasks. Curriculum Mapping has two interrelated elements: Mapping the alignment within units, e.g. learning outcomes, teaching approaches and learning activities, and assessment tasks etc.
A curriculum mapping process can reveal opportunities for better alignment between aspects of curriculum design, for the introduction of new teaching and learning or assessment activities, or for a more effective articulation of aims, outcomes and activities within units and across programs. What is needed at program level? How? No. Graduate Capabilities - Staff - Macquarie University. Macquarie's graduate capabilities may be seen as a mix of cognitive capabilities, personal dispositions, and interpersonal or social dispositions.
While it is clear that the capabilities cross these categories, they have been structured below into the category in which they are most seen to contribute. Acting with integrity underpins all these capabilities 1 Discipline Specific Knowledge and Skills Our graduates will take with them the intellectual development, depth and breadth of knowledge, scholarly understanding, and specific subject content in their chosen fields to make them competent and confident in their subject or profession. They will be able to demonstrate, where relevant, professional technical competence and meet professional standards. 2 Critical, Analytical and Integrative Thinking. Global Citizenship Symposium - International Education Association of Australia (IEAA)
Fostering Global Citizenship and Global Competence: A National Symposium August 2014 The concepts of ‘global citizenship’ and ‘global competence’ have gained increasing currency over the past 20 years.
The term global citizenship, especially, is now routinely used in a wide range of political, social, cultural, economic, diplomatic and educational contexts. There is also significant government interest in deepening Australia’s global engagement – particularly in the Asian region – through the business, industry, science, education and research sectors.
Page. Mapping student pathways from Australian language programmes. A new report from Australia’s Department of Education contains highly relevant information on the study pathways international students take in the Australian education system.
The report reveals the results of an annual analysis of the sectors international students first choose when they come to Australia to study, and what happens once they complete this first course of study. It’s called Study pathways of international students in Australia, and it illuminates in particular how key the ELICOS (English Language Intensive Courses for Overseas Students) sector is to enrolments in Australia’s higher education sector, and to a smaller but still significant extent, its VET (Vocational Education and Training) sector. It also contains projections of what would happen to higher education and VET sectors if ELICOS enrolments were to increase – or to decrease. The report is based on four student cohorts: The main point. Charting New Pathways to Higher Education: International Secondary Students in the United States.
The global mobility of secondary students is a phenomenon that has been on the rise in the United States and throughout the world.
This report describes the international secondary students who are currently in the United States, including their number, where they come from, and where they study, and assesses the relationship between international secondary enrollment in the United States and enrollment in higher education. A key feature of the study is a comparative analysis of international secondary enrollment in the United States as compared with other key Anglophone destinations. College pathway programs. The Macquarie University International College is our exciting new preferred pathway for international students seeking alternative entry into a Macquarie University undergraduate degree.
Take these five steps to apply for admission to a Macquarie International pathway program. Step 1: Choose your Macquarie University International College program Find the foundation or diploma program you are interested in. Visit our online course finder for international students to see the structure of the particular program. Newsroom Macquarie University to open pathways college - Macquarie University. One of Australia’s best young universities, Macquarie University in Sydney, today signaled its intention to establish its own College for domestic and international students seeking a pathway from high school into university.
The University’s pathway programs are currently managed by private higher education company, Navitas, which operates the Sydney Institute of Business and Technology (SIBT) and the University’s city campus. SIBT has been providing pre-university Certificate and Diploma Programs. Upon successful completion of a SIBT Diploma, students can enter the appropriate Macquarie University Bachelor degree program as a second-year student. Over 20,000 SIBT graduates have gone on to graduate from Macquarie University since 1997. By the first semester of 2016, Macquarie University intends to offer its own on-campus pathway programs. “Now in our 50th year, Macquarie has matured into a well-known and highly regarded research-intensive university.” he said.