Recent WACE News

The 2023 World Conference was a huge success with the help of our conference sponsors, the University of Waterloo, and the WACE community! Over 300 delegates from 24 countries joined together at the University of Waterloo, Canada in June with 100 workshops and paper presentations to choose from. 

During the conference Gala and Awards Reception, WACE was delighted to present three major awards to recognize contributions in cooperative and work-integrated education (CWIE) around the world. The Best Paper at the conference award was also announced along with the recipients of the 2023 WACE Research Grant. Congratulations to all the awardees and recipients. For more details on our 2023 recipients, read more here.

WACE is grateful to the University of Waterloo team for their warm welcome and efforts in hosting the global WIL community after 4 long years to share practice, research, and network with colleagues from across the world.

Thank you to everyone who attended this year's conference and congratulations to the 2023 WACE Awards recipients!

View the July 2023 Newsletter here.

WACE is delighted to announce we have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the creation of a WACE Regional Office located in Thailand.

WACE has partnered with Suranaree University of Technology (SUT), Thailand to support a key principle of our vision and mission in developing partnerships that share our goals and seek to complement, support, and uplift the related work so as to support CWIE (Cooperative and Work Integrated Education) on a global scale.As the host of such an Office, SUT agrees to promote WACE membership and CWIE throughout Thailand and Asia, particularly the member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), i.e. Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, The Philippines, Singapore, and Vietnam.

View our December 2022 WACE Newsletter here.

View our September 2022 newsletter here.

View our June 2022 newsletter here.

Recently the WACE Global Challenge and the work of WACE member, Botho University were highlighted in an International Finance Corporation Webinar

How to Prepare Your Students for the Next Globalization Era

We are entering the next era of globalization. Following the pandemic, remote work has become commonplace, while environmental and social issues are earning greater attention. How is academia preparing students for this new global market? How are they engaging employers to provide students with the skills needed to remain competitive? What tools and programs exist to help educators in this process? In this webinar, we will explore these topics and discuss practical solutions for taking action within your institution.

SPEAKERS:

Judie Kay is the Vice Chair Programs and Partnerships and an Executive Committee member for the World Association for Work-Integrated Education (WACE); and a consultant on graduate employability at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT). Previously Judie was the Director, Employability & Career Education at RMIT. You can connect with her on LinkedIn.

Aravinda Ram is Deputy Pro-Vice-Chancellor at Botho University- a pan African on-campus and distance-learning institution based in Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, and Eswatini. She oversees the University's employability strategy supporting students and alumni. You can connect with her on LinkedIn.

Isabel Dingler is Innovation & Sustainability Consultant at Sharkbite Innovation, a consulting firm based in Germany, where she assists businesses to take action toward achieving the UN SDGs to attain a sustainable future. You can connect with her on LinkedIn.

The session was moderated by Amy Refaat, Senior Private Sector Specialist, IFC.

Higher education institutions have an unprecedented opportunity to become more competitive by embracing the employability agenda. IFC’s webinar series on Employability in Higher Education shares lessons learned with educators intent on ensuring rewarding careers for their graduates. 

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