Study app leading way
Pilot program aims to boost employability
STUDY Cairns has partnered with Study Queensland to launch a “world first” pilot program aimed at helping students get a foothold in the Cairns job market.
The Start Here, Go Anywhere Global Skills Passport is an app platform for 12,000 international and domestic students to build portfolios of globally relevant skills.
The app launch is part of Study Cairns Connects – a program designed to log employability experiences for domestic and international students and to engage a network of Cairns business, community and government organisations.
Study Cairns president Carol Doyle said the program offers students access to volunteering and internship programs which complement employability experiences offered by Cairns-based education providers.
“With Study Queensland’s international education tagline Start Here, Go Anywhere, this exciting pilot project showcases the opportunity for international students to study in a unique regional Queensland location like Cairns,” she said.
“Participation in the project empowers students to develop transferable global skills like service orientation, innovation, teamwork and communication.
“This is a bold, world-leading ‘region scale’ initiative and potentially serves as a pilot for broader adaptation by other Queensland international education regions.”
The program is delivered in partnership with Australian education technology start-up Practera, and is a personalised employability, e-portfolio and micro-credential app, available to 12,000 post-secondary students during their study in Cairns.
The Global Skills Passport app and introductory workshops are designed to equip students with a World Economic Forum skills-based framework and issue open badge standard micro-credential certificates.
For students the resource provides a digital tool to help them build and demonstrate the skills needed to succeed in the future of work.
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