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The 2024 Student Experience Survey launches today! We encourage all eligible higher education students to take part in this important research and help improve higher education in Australia. For more information visit https://lnkd.in/gBzxvuSU

It's always an interesting Friday night read to see where Australia's university graduates are employed, with the latest Graduate Outcomes Survey (GOS) results released by QILT earlier this week. Overall, it shows strong rates of employment, including for STEM degrees. It’s a pretty positive story overall: on the big indicator (% of people graduating from undergrad degrees who are in full time work) the figure in 2023 is 79% - 10 percentage points up on 2020 and 2021, and seven to nine percentage points up on the period 2016-19. In the STEM context, full-time employment rates post undergraduate studies is strongest for engineering degree at 89.2%, compared to 69.8% and 74.4% for science and mathematics and computer and information systems respectively. Compared to 79% for all fields of study. - Low rates for science and mathematics is in part due to over 35% of graduates going on to further study compared to 18% for all other fields of study. Somewhat of a concern is the rate of self-reporting of poor utilisation skills being 39.5% in science and mathematics degrees, although this is low at 20.9% and 27.8% for engineering and computer and information systems, respectively. While this reporting varies across all degrees, with the lowest rates in health-related degrees, across all degrees the rate is 27.8%. Overall, while there are improvements to be made, this is a positive endorsement of Australia’s higher education system. I look forward to seeing the outcome of the work of Jobs and Skills Australia in developing National Skills Taxonomy to develop a shared skills vocabulary between employers, education providers, and workers. This should help match science and mathematics education and graduates to job shortages. - If you are interested, there is still time to complete the online survey for this taxonomy work - it closes Tuesday next week, 5 June. Report link - https://lnkd.in/gh8DFw6T Photo: Christian Lendl via Unsplash

The 2023 #GOS National Report has been released! Results from the 2023 GOS show that domestic graduates from Australian higher education institutions continued to benefit from the strength of the Australian labour market, with the highest full-time employment rates recorded since the survey commenced in 2016. For more results be sure to check out the 2023 GOS National Report as well as the 2023 GOS National Key Findings, now available to download from the QILT website at https://ow.ly/bLoO50RXnm7. #qilt #gos #results #highered

The 2023 ESS National Report has been released! The findings of the report confirm that supervisors continue to rate their graduates highly. In 2023, overall satisfaction with graduates as rated by their direct supervisors was 83.7%. Employers were also asked to report their satisfaction with graduates across five graduate attribute domains or scales. High levels of satisfaction were recorded across all of these attributes which included Foundational skills, Collaborative skills, Adaptive skills, Technical skills and Employability. For more results be sure to check out the QILT website https://lnkd.in/gFchgStx #qilt #ess #results

Are you using AI to prepare your graduates for jobs? In 2023, Forbes noted that one of the systemic challenges facing universities is ‘uneven career preparation’. In Australia, according to QILT data for domestic undergraduate students, while the overall graduate employment rate increased in 2022 - still more than one in five Australian graduates did not find a job. This data masks significant variations across universities, with almost one in three graduates from some #australianuniversities failing to secure a job. Through its innovative partnership Hiration - a leading applied AI company - Academy Xi is now offering an AI Career Coach (https://lnkd.in/gjcrECh8) for tertiary education providers in Australia. Having been successfully deployed at leading international universities (for example, Arizona State University and NYU Shanghai), the AI Career Coach provides personalised: * Interview preparation and practice for more than 600 job profiles * Specific feedback on interviews, including speech and posture analysis * Resume review and recommendations, aligned to specific target roles * LinkedIn profile optimiser The AI Career Coach is designed to work alongside existing #careerservices. It represents a cost-effective way to provide key foundational and job-specific support to large and diverse student populations. The Academy Xi AI Career Coach is a game changer for tertiary education providers seeking to better prepare graduates to launch their career. This could represent a future competitive advantage in the increasingly competitive student recruitment market. As with a lot of AI, you really need to see it in action. If you are at a #university, #tafe or #rto, I would be happy to connect you to the Academy Xi team to learn more about this innovative solution.  Congratulations to Will Phillips for leading this great initiative and for the support of Cyril Gabriel, Vincent Creighton, 🛴 Amir Ansari and Chris Veness. #edtech #graduatecareers.

A lucky CQU graduate pocketed a prize from QILT this week for filling out the #GOS-L! Congratulations and thank you for sharing your experience! Want to be a winner too? There is only one prize draw left! Don't miss out and complete the survey now: https://ow.ly/lBuy50QZlQi

The 2023 GOS-L National Report has been released!   Findings show that more than 90 per cent of graduates that completed higher education qualifications in 2019 were in full-time employment in 2023. These graduates had a slower start in 2020 at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia but have benefited from a strong labour market three years later.   Be sure to check out the QILT website: https://ow.ly/sVOf50QH09F for more information.

Want a good job, good pay and a happy boss? Do an Arts degree. The latest QILT Graduate Outcomes Survey shows humanities, arts and social sciences graduates continue to enjoy outstanding outcomes. Employers rate humanities, arts and social sciences graduates’ foundational, adaptive, collaborative, employment and technical skills as consistently above average. Meanwhile humanities, culture and social sciences students reported 79.1 per cent were satisfied with the overall education experience compared with the average of 75.9 per cent. The vast majority of humanities, arts and social sciences graduates are in full-time employment three years after graduating. Around 90 per cent of graduates are in jobs by then and employment outcomes across the creative arts, communications, and humanities, culture and social sciences are up around 30 per cent from 2020. Earnings for humanities, culture and social sciences graduates remain steady at around $82,000 three years after graduating. This is on par with the wider university average of $83,500. More graduates of the arts, social sciences and humanities go into management roles than the average graduate. Around 11 per cent of communications and creative arts graduates go into management roles compared with the national average of 7.8 per cent. The results paint a picture of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences students who are highly satisfied with their studies moving into well paid and rewarding careers where their employers appreciate their independence, critical thinking, adaptability and ability to communicate. This is wonderful news for the cohort of students that is commencing their studies in Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences across the country.”  You can read President Nick Bisley's full statement here: https://lnkd.in/gqRK_X2F

The 2023 GOS-L National Report has been released!   Findings show that more than 90 per cent of graduates that completed higher education qualifications in 2019 were in full-time employment in 2023. These graduates had a slower start in 2020 at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia but have benefited from a strong labour market three years later.   Be sure to check out the QILT website: https://ow.ly/sVOf50QH09F for more information.

International students have had mixed educational experiences the past few years but despite this, they continue to rate living in Australia very highly. More than 93% of international undergraduate students rated living in Australia positively in 2022. Check out the 2022 SES International Report for more results: https://lnkd.in/g5fdRip2)