NWC has been developing and shaping over the last three years.
In that time, it seems every conversation we have with prospective partners centres around a simple provocation:
When students leave education, where does education leave students?
What do they really know about themselves?
What skills and experiences do they have?
And how prepared are they for adult responsibilities and the workplace?
...Especially, those for whom traditional classroom learning may not have provided the best environment within which they thrive.
Then suddenly the issue of Higher Education becomes a policy platform for Government and raises the heckles of every education institution - challenging the quality threshold of graduate studies and graduate employment.
Surely, University is about more than a 'supply chain' numbers game for employment, to justify the ROI for Government? It must have a greater vocation?
But if Universities are forced to re-focus on a pipeline of the old-fashioned 'Milk Round', then where is a meaningful pilot for a 'Clearing House' to prepare students for life choices (further education, employment, entrepreneurship) at every stage of progression?
Such a context could create a coronation.
At the very least, we continue to plan for the chance to earn that right.
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