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Roadmap for Employment – Academic Partnerships

Amsterdam 18 June 2010

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•Innovation and Change in Higher Education • Funded through the Strategic Innovation Fund

•Roadmap for Employer-Academic Partnerships•Roadmap or model of partnerships

8 HEIs involved nationally

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Awareness

Involvement

Engagement

Strategic

Partnership

Figure 1 Relationship Continuum

Mutual awarenessCareers Fairs

Graduate Recruitment

Internship – Co-op PlacementsEvening CoursesCompany visits

Guest Speakers Extern ExaminersCourse AdvisorsTailored Courses

Short Funded Research projects

Research CollaborationSponsorship

Active training and development collaborationRecognition of prior learning mentoring and portfolio

development

Needs analysis and forward planning Mutual benefits and dependencies

Shared risks

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•Research and Investigation•Learning Needs Analysis•Partnership Model Development

•Implementation and Validation•Specialist Targeted Courses•Undergraduate Work Placement•Academics/Researchers into Employment•Employers into Academia•Professional Postgraduate Programmes

Roadmap for Employment – Academic Partnerships

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Specialist Targeted Courses

Partnership between an Institute and the IrishPrison Service• Bespoke programme tailored to the needs of the prison

service aimed to further professionalize the prison service• Higher Certificate in Custodial Care for new recruit prison

officers• Contract 2007-2013• Currently 384 students on the programme• Meets Council of Europe recommendations for training of

prison officers

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Specialist Targeted CoursesPartnership between an Institute and a largeMultinational• To provide induction and intensive training for

scientific services and staff• ‘Involved in every aspect’• Simulation Laboratory/New model of delivery• Accreditation• Skillnet

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Specialist Targeted Courses

Partnership between an Institute and an incubation company

• Jan 2002 Campus Incubation Centre• Mar 2003 Patent approval for CLK Guide Wire• Sept 2003 Commenced shipment of sterile

product• April 2004 Moved to new factory• Aug 2009 Acquired by Lake Region Medical

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Key Insights

• Clear contract or MOU • Incorporate flexibility, RPL and WBL• The right people• Accreditation• Parity of esteem for those involved in

teaching, research and work force development

Communications Communications Communications!

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A successful partnership grows well beyond its original

objectives

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Other Project Themes

• Undergraduate Work placement• Academic researchers into employment• Employers into Academia

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MagictouchA collective Partnership between an Institute

and a number of companies within a sector• Partnership between the HEI, the students

and the organisations working in the Tourism and hospitality Sector

• 17 Irish partners : Aer Lingus, Hilton Hotels, Guinness storehouse, Tourism Ireland, Westin Hotels

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Professional Postgraduate Programmes

Specifically research in the workplace and the thrust of the research will be work place problems as

opposed to theoretical problems. • Incorporates taught generic element and research• Academic supervisor/mentor and if possible a

work based mentor. • Flexibility• The fundamental principle - learning outcomes for

a NFQ level 9/10 award have been successfully demonstrated in an appropriate manner

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What will REAP contribute to the research on Employer/Academic Partnership?

• REAP will develop and publish a Roadmap that will provide guidance on how effective partnership can be developed and maintained.

• All three perspectives – Academic, Employer and Student/Employee will be incorporated

www.reap.ie

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Roadmap for Employment – Academic PartnershipsREAP

Dr Terry Maguire Institute of Technology Tallaght Dublinterry.maguire@ittdublin.ie

John P Murphy Cork Institute of Technology john.pmurphy@cit.ie

www.reap.ie www.eine.ie