admin University of Sydney’s Job Smart Education Program was awarded the prestigious Global Education Award. The University’s courses dominated this year’s QS Reimagine Education Awards, with the Job Smart Initiative securing an overall victory in this important category. This Business School initiative was awarded for its career accelerator status, whereby it provides international students with potent career experiences and employability skills.
The Reimagine Education Program
The Reimagine Education Program is the world’s largest award program that honours innovative teaching. The goal of the program is to appraise new modalities of teaching that enhance student employability as well as better their learning outcomes. The program is headed and managed by the Wharton SEI Center for Advanced Studies in Management at University of Pennsylvania and the World University Rankings.
The Program
Professor Pip Pattison, Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Education at the University of Sydney spoke on this prestigious win stating, “Our success at these awards demonstrates the University of Sydney is a world leader for quality and innovation in our teaching, it also shows our commitment to student experience and their graduate outcomes. These initiatives have helped to make us Australia’s leading university for graduate employability. Congratulations to all the award recipients and finalists.”
The program focuses on providing students the skills needed by them to be able to ace any and all job markets across the world. It provides students with the necessary job application support, local work experience, and networking opportunities. Students also receive personalized coaching by a team of career coaches, who help them develop and hone the requisite skill sets. They are allowed to build network connections with start-ups, SMEs as well as leading industry stalwarts like Deloitte, PwC and others, to get a first-hand-experience of the job market. The Job Smart Education Program will be awarded US$25,000 in funds as the overall victor of this award. Professor Suresh Cuganesan, Associate Dean (Student Success and Mobility) spoke on the unprecedented crisis in education and how the University is using it to better its courses. He propounded, “The global pandemic is not just a crisis but an opportunity for us at the University of Sydney Business School to do more for our students.”
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