A crucial part of a professional’s skills, abilities and competences are developed during work, and are refined through practical experiences and ‘learning by doing’. Employers rate work experience above all else and the HN qualifications aim to make students work ready and prepare them with the appropriate balanced skills profile that employers require.
Integral to achieving ‘work readiness’ is the need for practical application and contextualization of learning; a perspective that is increasingly sought after by employers. Curriculum that helps students gain real-world, relevant experience in their chosen careers have proven to be an enabler for graduate progression to employment and of considerable value to students’ personal and professional development.
This unit aims to enable students to develop personal and professional skills by engaging in practical tasks and activities within a relevant workplace. It is designed to facilitate supervised learning in a workplace that can be fit around full-time or part-time student commitments and enables both an employer as well as an academic supervisor to monitor and support students through a goal-orientated process. The minimum work experience hours required for completion is 160 hours.
Students will be given the opportunity to identify and plan their own skills development in line with a chosen career path or direction. It will be expected that students negotiate and agree work experience in an appropriate work context, agreed by the employer and academic supervisor. They will monitor and record evidence from the tasks and activities that they undertake, to allow them to evaluate the process and any shortcomings in their development going forward.
- Teacher: Karen Hana
A crucial part of a professional’s skills, abilities and competences are developed during work, and are refined through practical experiences and ‘learning by doing’. Employers rate work experience above all else and the HN qualifications aim to make students work ready and prepare them with the appropriate balanced skills profile that employers require.
Integral to achieving ‘work readiness’ is the need for practical application and contextualization of learning; a perspective that is increasingly sought after by employers. Curriculum that helps students gain real-world, relevant experience in their chosen careers have proven to be an enabler for graduate progression to employment and of considerable value to students’ personal and professional development.
This unit aims to enable students to develop
personal and professional skills by engaging in practical tasks and activities
within a relevant workplace. It is designed to facilitate supervised learning
in a workplace that can be fit around full-time or part-time student
commitments and enables both an employer as well as an academic supervisor to
monitor and support students through a goal-orientated process. The minimum
work experience hours required for completion is 160 hours.
Students will be given the opportunity to
identify and plan their own skills development in line with a chosen career
path or direction. It will be expected that students negotiate and agree work
experience in an appropriate work context, agreed by the employer and academic
supervisor. They will monitor and record evidence from the tasks and activities
that they undertake, to allow them to evaluate the process and any shortcomings
in their development going forward.
- Teacher: Karen Hana