Career-ready placements
Establishing a Career-ready placement opportunity in your program encourages our students to participate in workplace activities in real-world environments that guarantees their future success.
Placement opportunities also allow you to consult directly with the organisations that hire our graduates and helps us deliver innovative degrees that meet current industry standards.
How Career-ready placements work
You can establish a placement program so long as it provides a meaningful and relevant experience, and is recognised through assessment and credit.
An experience can be:
- an internship, placement, practicum or project-based activity
- on or off campus
- compulsory or optional
- real or simulated (depending on the discipline area)
Placement programs should also:
- involve clearly stated outcomes and assessment
- be consistent with quality teaching and learning
- meet the University of Newcastle's definition of WIL (PDF, 1.09MB)
- meet the Department of Education Employment and Workplace Relation's requirements for funding
Before establishing a Career-ready placement program staff should read the University's Student Placement Policy and insurance information.
Resources
The Australian Collaborative Education Network (ACEN) - register for free for the latest placement news, research and conference updates.
World Association of Cooperative Education (WACE) - read about placement research and activities across the globe.
Innovative Research Universities (IRU) - find out about the latest national placement research and events.
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