With the world of work changing rapidly, because of artificial intelligence, the legacy of the lockdown era and the growing threat of climate change, predicting the future has never been more difficult. How can we prepare the students of today to become the workforce of tomorrow?
In the classroom, critical thinking, interdisciplinarity and authentic assessment can all cut paths through uncertainty. For careers services, setting students on the right path and finding the industry partners to accompany them on their way is key.
This 60-minute webinar discussion includes advice on how to prepare students for jobs that don’t yet exist; embedding AI literacy; soft skills - or transferable skills - students will need for the hard times ahead; partnering with industry; entrepreneurship and how to improve work readiness.
Our panellists are:
Deborah Bartlett is chief employability and entrepreneurship officer at Al Akhawayn University. For the university, she has accelerated internal efforts that equip students in finding passions (plural), trying-failing-trying-failing-succeeding and being employable before graduating with a prestigious degree.
Julio Gimenez is a principal lecturer at the Centre of Education and Teaching Innovation at the University of Westminster. His latest book “Teaching Communication, Skills, and Competencies for the International Workplace" (2023) has been published by Routledge.
Rushana Khusainova is a senior lecturer in marketing, education lead for marketing and consumption academic group, and a marketing skills expert at the University of Bristol. She is passionate about such topics as marketing skills, regenerative marketing and generative AI skills in business education.
Abdelmoniem Sahal Elmardi is acting associate dean for academic affairs at Dubai Medical College for Girls.
All our speakers are from Campus+ partner institutions. Campus+ is a unique opportunity to become a contributing partner to the resources, tools and advice published on Campus.
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