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# future capable

Navigating change, learning for what's next

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## Posts

- [TEQSA’s new ‘Assuring quality learning & gen AI – adaptive capabilities’ publication: a response](https://www.futurecapable.com/?p=953) - I was so excited to read this publication on Thursday. It’s rare that I get excited about a new TEQSA publication (with the possible exception of the revised WIL Guidance Note a few years back), but this new one, Assuring quality learning in a gen AI-integrated future: The role of adaptive capabilities, is an absolute
- [Sustaining Direction Dynamically: Designing governance tempo, portfolio and insight management for future and change capability in higher education](https://www.futurecapable.com/?p=790) - This is the sixth article in a series on future and change capability in higher education, and the second of two posts on strategy, governance and risk. This post is a long one, because it's where I get into how institutions can become more agile by making good decisions based on getting the right people
- [Commitment Under Uncertainty: Decision Architecture for Future and Change Capability in Higher Education](https://www.futurecapable.com/?p=729) - This is the fifth article in a series on future and change capability in higher education. The ‘what this series is about’ paragraphs just below are the same as in my Linkedin article and you can skip them if you've read that, but from ‘Decision architecture’ I've added a lot more depth than in Linkedin.
- [Graduate employability and the Senate inquiry: What the politics misses](https://www.futurecapable.com/?p=681) - Graduate employability and the question of whether universities are adequately preparing graduates for work is not new, but policy pressure on the topic has been escalating over the last few years. Governments have already tried one heavy-handed policy lever in response to it: the 2020 Job-Ready Graduates package, which attempted to use differential fee structures
- [Future and change capability in higher education: A midpoint reflection](https://www.futurecapable.com/?p=557) - From individual capability to institutional adaptability This post marks the halfway point in my series on future and change capability in higher education. Rather than introducing a new component of the framework, I offer a brief sensemaking reflection on where this work has come from and why it matters now. The beginning of this post
- [Adaptive Ecosystems: Designing University Permeability for Future and Change Capability in Higher Education](https://www.futurecapable.com/?p=525) - This article is the 3rd in a series about making universities more future and change capable. Article 1 is here, and article 2 is here. In previous posts, I argued that universities’ core challenge in navigating change is not resistance, but a lack of future and change capability: the institutional capacity to decide, deliberately and
- [In these disruptive times, universities don’t need to be less resistant to change.](https://www.futurecapable.com/?p=386) - Explore how universities can develop future-and-change capability to adapt effectively amidst disruptive pressures and maintaining institutional integrity.
- [AI adoption and the reshaping of early-career capability – a shared challenge for higher education and industry](https://www.futurecapable.com/?p=513) - Last week I delivered the opening keynote at the Graduate Employability: Insights to Impact Forum hosted by Swinburne on how generative and agentic AI are reshaping early-career work, and how industry, universities and students can be better prepared for it. I’ve had a few days to reflect, and I’m ready to share some thoughts. The
- [Identity Before Adaptability: Laying the Foundations for Future and Change Capability in Higher Education](https://www.futurecapable.com/?p=450) - In my previous post, I argued that a central challenge facing universities in these times of flux is not resistance to change, but a lack of future and change capability. By this I mean the institutional ability to decide, deliberately and in time, when and what to change and when and what not to, and
- [Learning and working through social networks: Still a (mostly) untapped opportunity for higher education](https://www.futurecapable.com/?p=376) - TLDR: My Australian National Senior Teaching Fellowship report is now out and available for download. My fellowship explores the roles that social networks play in graduate employability, and how universities can foster social network capability through interventions at curricular, pedagogic, and organisational levels. My fellowship findings and resources will be of interest to Australian university
- [Making career changes – COVID-19 and the future of work](https://www.futurecapable.com/?p=364) - I was on Australian Channel 7 Sunrise television yesterday talking about the future of work, and what it means for career changers – thinking about where the opportunities are, and what can people do to make the most of them. I only had a few minutes on TV and I had a lot more to
- [100 Jobs of The Future: what are the job roles that could be created in the next few years?](https://www.futurecapable.com/?p=343) - Media reports and scholarly literature alike tend to emphasise the jobs that might / will disappear over the next few years under the influence of automation and artificial intelligence. Some reports suggest that as many as 50% of job roles will disappear. Others suggest that work might eventually become a thing of the past entirely,
- [Journal special issue: call for abstracts](https://www.futurecapable.com/?p=337) - I'm seeking article authors for a 2019 special issue of Higher Education Policy and Management on the role and impact of employability and employment outcomes in higher education: The special issue is titled 'Employability and employment outcomes as drivers of higher education practice: Implications for development of a future-capable workforce' For more information, please visit:
- [Career planning in a disrupted world of work](https://www.futurecapable.com/?p=283) - In a disrupted age where we don't know which jobs will exist in the future, and young people can expect to have 19 jobs across 5 industries in their lifetimes*, how do you plan your career? How do you know which education / training course to choose? How do you know that the choices you
- [The career service is dead, long live the career service? The work of the university career practitioner in an era of graduate employability](https://www.futurecapable.com/?p=320) - I've always been interested in career services. Those of us who have enough life mileage ;-) may have visited a career service in high school or university to do a range of aptitude tests, and be matched with an ideal career (mine was 'lawyer' - not sure what this says about me??). Others will have
- [Are our universities 'too fat'?](https://www.futurecapable.com/?p=306) - I'm in Canberra. I've been attending the 2018 Universities Australia conference*, and I'm writing this from a corner in ANU's ageing Art & Music library (I love the smell of it - oh the nostalgia! It reminds me of my undergrad days at UQ, when I would spend solid days in places like this. At
- [Grand Challenge Lecture: Future Capable -- Learning for Life and Work in the 21st Century](https://www.futurecapable.com/?p=276) - Last month I delivered a 'grand challenge' public lecture at Queensland University of Technology. The Institute for Future Environments hosts these lectures, which, as you'd expect, are all about the big challenges facing humanity, from feeding the world’s booming population to managing scarce natural resources and reducing our carbon footprint. Over the years they've hosted
- [The university of the future part 3: Hub of a learning network](https://www.futurecapable.com/?p=191) - In an age where learners can download all of the content they want for free, there is limited value in continuing to feed them a pre-digested, pre-prepared curriculum. The institutions that will thrive in our age of digital hyper-connectivity will do so because of the quality and depth of the learning experiences they offer, the
- [Teaching philosophy update](https://www.futurecapable.com/?p=265) - Edit: I was succesful in my application, and as of June 2017 am now a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy! ----- I just finished writing a new application to the Higher Education Academy. I became a Senior HEA Fellow in mid-2015, and posted about my teaching philosophy then. This time, I'm going for
- [What should universities do about graduate employability?](https://www.futurecapable.com/?p=228) - Recently, Australian universities have become highly concerned about graduate employability, and how to ensure that our graduates have positive career outcomes. It's not that we didn't care about this before -- but recent graduate outcome statistics show that that chances of students gaining full-time employment after graduation are declining in all disciplines, and have been
- [Graduate Employability 2.0: Fostering university connectedness](https://www.futurecapable.com/?p=224) - Some of the most interesting findings from my fellowship interviews are actually about university stakeholder engagement and networks (or lack thereof), rather than student professional connectedness. University approaches to external and internal stakeholder engagement are underdeveloped across the sector. Universities are still mostly taking short-term, ad hoc and often transactional approaches to working with our
- [Graduate employability 2.0: Learning for professional connectedness](https://www.futurecapable.com/?p=221) - July was a busy month for me. I interviewed 43 people in different roles from a total of 26 Australian universities, to build a national picture of higher education engagement with learning and teaching for professional connectedness. The team have also profiled a number of humanities, arts and social sciences graduates and industry / community
- [Introducing 'Graduate Employability 2.0'](https://www.futurecapable.com/?p=207) - Did you know that Linkedin now has 300 million users, which is about 1 in 3 professionals worldwide? And that 35% of those users log in every day? And did you know that about 60% of jobs are estimated to be obtained through ‘who you know’ rather than direct application? Did you also know that
- [Welcome to future capable April 2016](https://www.futurecapable.com/?p=205) - Hello everyone, and apologies for the (gulp!) 4 month (!!) hiatus from this blog. I promise I have been working hard on future capable-related activities, including writing a book chapter about a new model of 21st century learning for Michael Tomlinson's forthcoming book about graduate employability (due out next January), and setting up my Australian
- [Graduate Employability 2.0 - in pictures](https://www.futurecapable.com/?p=198) - On Tuesday I gave a plenary presentation at QUT's annual Higher Education Research Network symposium, to kick off my OLT Fellowship. Here it is summarised in pictorial form!! Completely delightful.
- [The 'most amazing course ever': The university of the future  part 2](https://www.futurecapable.com/?p=142) - In an age where learners can download all of the content they want for free, there is limited value in continuing to feed them a pre-digested, pre-prepared curriculum. The institutions that will thrive in our age of digital hyper-connectivity will do so because of the quality and depth of the learning experiences they offer, the
- [The university of the future part 1: just say no (most of the time) to pre-digested content](https://www.futurecapable.com/?p=119) - In an age where learners can download all of the content they want for free, there is limited value in continuing to feed them a pre-digested, pre-prepared curriculum. The institutions that will thrive in our age of digital hyperconnectivity will do so because of the quality and depth of the learning experiences they offer, the
- [Graduate employability and the danger of generic / soft / transferable / key skills](https://www.futurecapable.com/?p=169) - I promise that the third part of my series 'the university of the future' is still coming up! I got distracted... Over the weekend I read some documents about transferable skills, which reminded me that I had an idea for an article about them way back in 2007 around the time I was writing my
- [KEY-shaped people, not T-shaped people - disciplinary agility and 21st century work](https://www.futurecapable.com/?p=102) - The 'T-shaped person' metaphor has been floating around talent management and education circles for nearly 25 years now. The basic idea is that professionals need to possess both depth of disciplinary knowledge and breadth of capability for collaboration across multiple disciplines - hence the vertical and horizontal strokes of the 'T'. According to T proponents,
- [How do you teach for lifelong creative employability? 3 models of WIL*](https://www.futurecapable.com/?p=71) - *for a definition of WIL and some initial discussions around why I think we need to reinvent it, see my blog post from last week I have argued elsewhere that in the real value in learning that the future university will provide students is not so much in the manifest curriculum content, apart from what
- [Why creative internships aren't all that useful](https://www.futurecapable.com/?p=48) - Today I spent some time thinking about work integrated learning (WIL) for students of creative disciplines (creative and performing arts, media and communications, and design). I started thinking about creative WIL in terms of the desired employment outcomes of students, their career configurations, and then how WIL works currently in most creative courses at universities.
- [Teaching philosophy](https://www.futurecapable.com/?p=1) - A couple of weeks ago I was tasked with writing a one-page philosophy statement as part of my Higher Education Academy Senior Fellowship* application. Oddly, given that I've been researching and teaching in HE for quite a while now, I've never had to create one of these before, and I didnt actually know what it

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