Developing Global Talent for the World of Work through staff-student-industry collaboration and co-creation on a global scale

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Keywords:

Employability, Internationalisation, Learning gains, Festival, co-creation

Abstract

This case study reports on the organisation and impact of the Global Talent for the World of Work forum (aka the WoW forum) 2019, as captured through a comprehensive framework of key performance statistics, reflections and qualitative feedback from staff, students, industry partners and other participants in the event. The WoW forum was the main deliverable from a British Council funded project for enhancing Higher Education (HE) Partnership with Vietnamese universities. The forum built on the experience of BU in running 9 Global Festivals of Learning (GFOL) over the past 4 years, partnering with HE partners in India, China ASEAN and Europe.

Students play a critical role in these events, with their roles and the activities for the WoW event designed to accommodate latest seminal work on the future of jobs (WEF, 2018) and the global graduate skills gap (ISE,2019).

The settings of the WoW forum offered rich foundation using a critical participatory action research as an learning platform for participants to share their knowledge, experiences and reflections on innovative HE-industry practices. It concludes that multi-dimensional events such as GFOLs and the WoW forum demonstrate the value of ‘comprehensive internationalisation’.

Author Biographies

Milena Bobeva, Bournemouth University

Associate Dean for Global Engagement, Principal Academic, Business School

Dr. Milena Bobeva is a key advocate of education innovation through industry-staff-student collaboration, process optimization and Technology Enhanced Learning. She is a Chartered Manager and a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute in the UK, and a Senior Fellow of Advance HE, the UK Higher Education Academy.

Applied research features prominently in Milena’s academic practice, with key focus on experiential project-based learning, innovation management, developing student employability through industry engagement and reverse mentoring as a strategy for cross-generational learning gains.

Kristian Landmark, Bournemouth University

BA (Hons) Business Studies, graduate 2019

Abu Khaled, Bournemouth University

BA (Hons) Business Studies, graduate 2019
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Published

05/15/2020

How to Cite

Bobeva, M., Landmark, K., & Khaled, A. (2020). Developing Global Talent for the World of Work through staff-student-industry collaboration and co-creation on a global scale. The Journal of Educational Innovation, Partnership and Change, 6(1). Retrieved from https://journals.studentengagement.org.uk/index.php/studentchangeagents/article/view/1015

Issue

Vol. 6 No. 1 (2020): The Evolving Landscape of Staff-Student Partnership

Section

Case Study

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Copyright is held by the journal. The author has full permission to publish to their institutional repository. Articles are published under an Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International licence.