Internship Responses to Covid-19: What does the future of internship practices look like? | 16 June

How can we foster or reignite our industry partners’ commitment to future internships? What creative hybrid WIL models have you been designing?

The Covid-19 distancing measures and the economic down turn have strongly affected internship offerings. They remain low, some have been cut short or continued as home office, others are only postponed and yet others might be lost altogether due to economic stress.

Internship programs are an educational complex partnership between students, industry and university. Effective commitments to internship programs require the participation of industry. The Joint Statement of Principles for Higher Education Sector COVID-19 Response acknowledges the impact on professional placements and calls for new solutions, the continued shared responsibility of university and industry to provide quality learning experiences for students.

This all-embracing pandemic disruption can be used as an opportunity to become creative and innovative with internship models, practices and industry partnerships. There are diverse possibilities to strengthen what has been working well and to transform what needed change even before this pandemic.

This webinar is an invitation to share your alternative strategies to internships and ask your questions to contribute to a supportive and inspiring conversation of what has changed in the internship and employment landscape and where to from here.

In this conversational webinar you will hear from 3 faculties:

• the FTDi perspective to virtual internships from Amanda McGregor, Sabrina Ulis and Adrian Buck
• Experiences from the professional practice program in FEIT from Loletta Yuen
• FASS reflections on internships by Mark Gawne and Cornelia Beltzer

Here are useful links and actions you can take:

Read the Joint Statement of Principles for the Higher Education Sector COVID-19 Response. It appeals to flexibility yet upholding quality in WIL teaching. Join the conversation and share resources in the dedicated teams channel

• Internships and Covid-19 in the TEAMS Careers space; contact Julieanne Cutrupi or Franziska Trede.
• Present your virtual WIL / remote placement strategies in this upcoming webinar; contact Franziska · Sign up to ACEN’s newsletter to receive the latest developments in WIL. It is free because UTS is an ACEN member
• Register for ACEN critical conversations webinars and online coffee chats · Read ACEN’s response to Covid-19 virus
• Contact Camille Dickson-Deane for virtual Science labs
• Contact Julieanne Cutrupi for virtual WIL applications

Please email Franziska.Trede@uts.edu.au with your questions and ideas

Register for this event

Your video, audio and the meeting chat transcript may be recorded or photographed. Please advise the facilitator if you do not wish to be recorded or photographed.

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