EDF5762 Enhancing education to work transitions and employability
Faculty of Education
EDF5762 Enhancing education to work transitions and employability is a level 5, 6-credit-point, postgraduate unit from the Faculty of Education, offered in 2025 in Semester 1 at Clayton. It needs EDF5611 and EDF5610.
- Credit points
- 6
- Offered in 2025
- Semester 1
- Clayton
- Assessment
- No exam
- 2 tasks
- Workload
- 144 hours
- per semester
This is the 2025 handbook entry. See the 2027 entry.
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Requisites
Before EDF5762
Prerequisites
Pass these before you enrol.
After EDF5762
No unit lists EDF5762 as a prerequisite in the 2025 handbook.
Overview
Within today’s globalized and uncertain labour markets, the connection between education and work has gone far beyond the notion of using a qualification/degree to obtain stable employment. Your post-study career success is determined by your capacities in both securing immediate employment and sustaining employment. This unit is, therefore, designed to facilitate your successful education-to-work transitions and your employability sustainability.
In particular, it will look at aspects including: gaps between the worlds of education and work with a focus on examining how curricular and extra-curricular activities prepare you for requirements and expectations of industries, issues facing young people on education-to-work transitions and required resources for successful education-to-work transitions and employability sustainability. A particular theme in this unit will be how these aspects occur and are applied to students with specific needs that derive from their life situations; for example: migrants, international students and students with special needs.
Obtaining insights about these aspects will enable you to critically evaluate the roles of schools and universities and other stakeholders in preparing and supporting you for post-study career development. You should also be able to identify plausible career pathways and effective strategies for successful employability negotiation.
Offerings in 2025
| Teaching period | Campus | Mode |
|---|---|---|
| First semester | Clayton | Flx blk |
Assessment
- Portfolio and individual presentation (1600 words or equivalent)40%
- Critical analysis (2400 words or equivalent)60%
Learning outcomes
When you finish this unit, you should be able to:
- 1
understand how global trends and local contexts affect young people's learning, work, identities and well-being in schools and post-schooling contexts
- 2
obtain insights about contemporary career and employability theories and concepts
- 3
understand the diverse needs and identities of young people in education-to-work transitions
- 4
practise and advance skills in developing and utilising some key resources to enhance education-to-work transitions and employability sustainability
- 5
obtain insights about how schools and universities prepare students for education-to-work transitions and how other stakeholders should be involved in this process
- 6
be able to analyse personal resources like skills, knowledge and personal qualities as well as critically analyse career values and develop plausible career plans/pathways as well as identify necessary resources for employability sustainability.
Workload and teaching
- Lectures5 hours
- Tutorials19 hours
- Teaching approachActive learning
The minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per teaching period comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study.
Usually, you can expect to engage with:
• 12 hours of scheduled learning delivered on campus via weekly/regular directed learning activities, 12 hours of scheduled learning delivered online via a combination of synchronous and asynchronous directed learning activities, and the remaining hours to be allocated towards self-directed/independent study
OR
• 24 hours of scheduled learning delivered online via a combination of synchronous and asynchronous directed learning activities, and the remaining hours to be allocated towards self-directed/independent study^
^ International students studying in Australia are not permitted to undertake this scheduled learning delivery mode
Scheduled learning activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.
You will be provided with the opportunity to engage with relevant literature and resources. Further, you will be encouraged to deepen your understanding of topic areas through collegial discussion and debate, and by participating in activities designed to extend your understanding.
Learning resources
Recommended resources
Please visit the unit Moodle site for further information.
Where it fits
EDF5762 is part of 1 area of study in the 2025 handbook.
Contacts
- Chief Examiners
- Dr Thanh Pham
- Unit Coordinators
- Dr Thanh Pham
Common questions
When is EDF5762 offered?
In 2025, EDF5762 runs in Semester 1 at Clayton.
How much work is EDF5762?
The handbook expects about 144 hours of study across the semester. No students have rated its difficulty yet.
Does EDF5762 have an exam?
No. EDF5762 has 2 assessment tasks and no exam.
Which majors and minors include EDF5762?
EDF5762 is part of General education studies.