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Australian Financial Review (AFR) has released its finalist list for Most Employable University Award and UTS has risen up the ranks to come in equal second in Australia.
As the 69th most employable university in the world according to QS 2021 World Rankings, this once again cements UTS as a leading university for practical, forward-thinking education that empowers our students for the future.
In a recent article in the AFR, Dr Michael Spencer, formerly of University of Sydney said
"The best research suggests that a broad education, and many of the core skills that these disciplines offer, will most future-proof our students."
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"If you want to change the way people think about courses, you need to talk to them in year 10," Paino has noted.
Early university application data for 2021 suggested students were not being persuaded immediately to shift away from humanities or towards STEM.
The 2020 Graduate Outcomes Survey (longitudinal) produced by the Department of Education - based on a survey of 40,000 graduates - further challenges the government's contention that humanities graduates are not in demand.
Within four months of completing their undergraduate degree , 73 per cent of all graduates are in full-time work. This proportion increases to 90 per cent after three years. That success rate holds equally true for humanities graduates.
"It is interesting to note that in 2020, the overall employment rate for humanities, culture and social sciences was 87 per cent three years after completing their degree, the same rate for science and mathematics graduates," reported Universities Australia chief executive Catriona Jackson.
Hurley says students' transition from, school to university to the workplace is more likely to be influenced by their education experience than course content.
University students with a record of relevant work experience can be attractive to employers irrespective of their degree, he adds.
This also contains an important message for students making the transition from university to the workplace, which is backed up by the experience of graduates in the Top 100 Employers 2021 - employers are looking for students who are well rounded.
While some jobs, such as engineering, require specific skills, all jobs require students to be able to think laterally, work in teams. communicate confidently and assess big data sets.
The ability to do these things comes from a wide range of degrees including both arts and sciences, and the quality that sums it up is diversity of experience.
As the university class of 2021 enters the workforce, graduates will find that the skills which help them in their new jobs have been acquired from many sources and many different types of study.
Appearing before a Senate committee hearing in September, outgoing University of Sydney vice-chancellor Dr Michael Spence told senators the government's Job-ready Graduates Package
"punishes students for choosing to study the social sciences and humanities".
"The best research suggests that a broad education, and many of the core skills that these disciplines offer, will most futureproof our students," he told them.
''It is skills in critical thinking, problem solving and effective oral and written communication that will be most transferable to the jobs of the fourth industrial revolution."
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