WACE IRG Newsletter #1 2017 View this email in your browser

Greetings IRG Members and the Broader Wace Community

In the northern hemisphere, spring is finally here and with it comes the rush to prepare for the next major

WACE event – the World Conference in Chiang Mai, Thailand. For anyone going, the excitement is

mounting. It is sure to be a great event given the speakers and concurrent sessions on the agenda.

Furthermore, it will be in Chiang Mai that we will be announcing the recipient of the second WACE-IRG

Research Grant and the winner of the Best Research Paper Award. Our dedicated reviewers have

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certainly been very busy these past few months. The final decisions are difficult given the number of high

quality submissions. Between now and the conference, I hope you enjoy the updates in this newsletter

and remember, if you have research news you want to share in the next newsletter, please inform your

Regional Vice-Chair.

Looking forward to seeing many of you at the WACE World Conference in Chiang Mai in June 2017.

Kind Regards

Dr. Maureen Drysdale

Executive Chair, WACE-IRG

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WACE NEWS

AWARDS & RECOGNITION

The IRG Awards Committee will select, from the refereed papers presented at the 20th WACE World

Conference, the Best Refereed Paper to be presented at the Farewell Gala on June 8, 2017.

Nominations are currently being accepted for three WACE Awards:

Mr. Donald MacLaren, Jr. Academic Award

Dr. John A. Curry Employer Award

Dr. Constantine “Taki” Papadakis Executive Leadership Award

For more information about the nomination criteria for each award please go to www.waceinc.org and click

on the WACE Awards tab. A letter of nomination should be submitted to Dr. Paul Stonely at

paul_stonely@uml.edu

WACE CO-OP HALL OF FAME

WACE is currently accepting nominations, from WACE Global Partners, for the 16th Induction Class for

2017-2018. For the Class of 2016-2017, WACE inducted 35 distinguished co-op graduates from 24

Global Partners representing 8 countries. Further information on the 2016-2017 Class Year and previous

class years is available here.

WACE MERIT CO-OP SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM

For the 2016-2017 application year, WACE received over 1100 applications from merit level U.S. and

international students who are competing for 175 scholarships totally $4.5 million offered by the 10 U.S

Global Partners participating in the program.

WACE EVENTS

WACE 20th World Conference Chiang Mai, Thailand June 5-8, 2017

June 5, International CWIE Research Group Workshop facilitated by Dr. Maureen Drysdale

June 5, National Association Meeting facilitated by Ms. Judie Kay

WACE 13th Institute for Experiential Education October 22-25, 2017 hosted by WACE Board

Member President Chris Hopey at Merrimack CollegeFor more information please go to:

http://www.waceinc.org/merrimack2017/index.html

WACE 3rd International Research Symposium June 23-27, 2018 hosted by WACE Board Member

Dr. Axel Gerloff at DHBW Stuttgart, Germany.

REGIONAL REPORTS

AFRICA

DeputyPresidentoftheRepublicofSouthAfricaHonourableCyrilRamaphosa

National Skills Conference 2017

On the 23rd and 24th of March 2017, the DHET and the NSA hosted the National Skills Conference and

Awards at the St George Hotel in Centurion, Pretoria. The two-day conference was attended by both the

Minister of Higher Education and Training, Honourable Dr Blade Nzimande well as the Deputy President

of the Republic of South Africa Honourable Cyril Ramaphosa.

The Director General of the Department of Higher Education and Training Mr Qonde opened the National

Skills Conference, speaking on behalf of Minister Nzimande under the theme: "Skills Development for

integrated and differentiated Post-School Education and Training System: Past, present and future".

The conference aimed to meet the following objectives:

1 - Deepening understanding of the reviewed NSDS and SETA landscape within the integrated post-

school system legislative and policy environment

2 - Strengthening the skills development system in the post-school system

3 - Promoting youth and productive work for inclusive growth

4 - Fast tracking artisan development and encourage international best practice on skills development

5 - Give social partners a platform to pledge support and commitment to implement the strategy

6 - To provide a platform for skills development actors to showcase their organisations and to disseminate

information.

This national conference was attended by 1000 key skills development stakeholders: SETAs, Labour,

Education and Training Providers, Community Organisations and Government Departments.

The President of SASCE Mr Carver Pop shared the challenges faced in implementing Work Integrated

Learning at universities and made recommendations for the review of the Workplace Based Learning

policy presented to Cabinet at this Conference.

Members of SASCE are asked to submit comments on this proposed policy as it will direct the

implementation and impact of WIL in transforming the nature and support for WIL as well as undermine

the power of WIL as a societal tool for meaningful transformation through developing employability

(including entrepreneurship skills).

Both the Minister of Higher Education and Training, Honourable Dr Blade Nzimande, as well as the

Deputy President of the Republic of South Africa Honourable Cyril Ramaphosa, challenged the sector to

do more to contribute to employability and improve the quality of education.

Dr Roelien Brink, Vice-chair (Africa)

AMERICAS

North America has had and will be having numerous conferences in the next months that will relate in

various ways to CWIE research as follows:

Of special note, at CEIA (Cooperative Education and Internship Association) held in Denver on

April 3-4, 2017, Dr. Paul Stonely was awarded the 2017 Dean Herman Schneider award for

outstanding contributions as an educator to the field of Cooperative Education and Internships and

Dr. Cheryl Cates received the 2017 James W. Wilson Award for outstanding support of research in

cooperative education and internships. We send our warmest congratulations to both winners.

On May 28-31, CACEE (Canadian Association of Career Education), CAFCE (Canadian

Association for Co-operative Education), and ACE (Association for Co-operative Education) will be

holding their inaugural joint conference in Vancouver, BC.Titled “Better Together”, this conference

will bring together colleagues from diverse perspectives, providing an exceptional opportunity for

learning and collaboration.

September 14-16, IARSLCE (International Association of Research for Service-Learning and

Community Engagement) will host its 17th Annual Conference at NUI in Galway, Ireland. This is

the main organization in North America with a focus on research in service-learning and

community engagement and has consistently been the source of many new ideas and

collaborations in the field.

Lastly, NSEE (National Society for Experiential Education) will hold its 46th Annual Conference on

September 25-27 in St. Petersburg, FL. focusing on innovation in our changing field. This

organization has a strong focus on research and practice related to student learning.

We hope you will be able to attend some of these events and send back information on the highlights to

post in our next newsletter.

Dr. Sheri Dressler, Vice-chair (Americas)

ASIA

WACE researchers invited to WEEF & GEDC Seoul 2016

Peggy Jarvie, Executive Director, Co-operative Education, Waterloo University, Canada, and Yasushi

Tanaka, Center of Research for Cooperative and Work-Integrated Education, Kyoto Sangyo University,

Japan, were invited as special session speakers for "The Global Industry

University Cooperation Forum" in the World Engineering Education Forum and The Global Engineering

Deans Council (WEEF & GEDC) during 6-10, November, 2016 in Korea.

“The Global Industry University Cooperation Forum” was organized by Ministry of Education, Korea.

Highlights of the forum included: Peter Kelly’s (Aalto University, Finland) planery session on ‘Creativity

Inspired Innovation’; Yasushi Tanaka (Japan kyoto Sangyo University, Japan) session on ‘Cooperative

Education: an economist’s perspective and its development in Japan’; Peggy Jarvie (Canada Waterloo

University, Canada) session on ‘Co-operative education: building tomorrow’s talent’; Wonyong Kim

(Chung-ang Universiy, Korea) session on ‘Global start-up supporting program of Chung-Ang University’;

Shigeo Kagami (Tokyo University, Japan) ‘University Entrepreneurship and Innovation Ecosystem at the

University of Tokyo’.

To see the atmosphere at the forum, digital images are available here. Unfortunately, Peggy and I are not

in the gallery! As many WACE participants are from science and engineering departments, their future

conferences might be of interest to you in Asia as well as in the rest of the world.

"Cooperative Education in Asia"

Yasushi Tanaka, Center of Research for Cooperative and Work-Integrated Education, Kyoto Sangyo

University, Japan, and Karsten Zegwarrd, Director, Cooperative Education Unit, University of Waikato,

New Zealand, are preparing a book titled "Cooperative Education in Asia" as co-editors. The book has

chapters on cooperative education in China, Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia and

Singapore with a summary chapter. We are working towards publishing in early 2018.

Meanwhile, there will be a workshop based on the book during the 20th WACE World Conference in

Chiang Mai, Thailand in June 2017, with participation from the co-editors and chapter authors. The

workshop is called, ‘The practice and challenges of work-integrated learning in Asia’. We do hope you can

join us in the workshop!

Dr. Yasushi Tanaka,Vice-Chair (Asia)

EUROPE

"Work-Integrated Learning: Enable Students Pathways to Employment" - Some perspectives on

students, teachers and the societal role"

In January WACE-ISO held a seminar at University of Porto, Portugal on Work-Integrated learning and the

challenges of enable students pathways to employment. The discussion were loud and energizing,

problematizing student and teachers role in the new work-life.

Testimonials:

"I want to take the opportunity to thank you for a well-organized and thoughtful seminar. Your leadership,

as well as, the content made the presentations very provoking. Congratulations on the very important

work that you do."

Dr. Eduardo J. Padron

President

Miami Dade College

"The WACE ISO Seminar on Work-Integrated Learning: Enable Students Pathways to Employment was a

great experience. The seminar with keynote presentations and subsequent group discussions was an

ideal way to learn from each other and share experiences with colleagues from other universities and get

to know how WIL is implemented in other countries. Learning from your peers is very inspiring, and

especially the mix of theory from the reading list provided before the seminar and the best practices

shared during the seminar was very beneficial. In addition, it was also a good networking event and I

already look forward to the next seminar."

Brigitte Ilg

Director International Office

DHBW Heidenheim

More information: https://www.hv.se/en/work-integrated-learning/wace/past-events/work-integrated-

learning-enable-students-pathways-to-employment---some-perspectives-on-students-teachers-and-the-

societal-role/

Dr. Kristina Johansson, Vice-Chair (Europe)

OCEANIA

Since the last brief in November, the Southern Hemisphere has had their summer Christmas holidays,

meaning there are not many past events to report on. However, despite the holiday season, much work is

being done to prepare for some significant upcoming events.

News from Oceania

The ACEN NSW/ACT Chapter held its first forum of the year on 16 February (see digital images

above) on 'Unpacking co-curricular options: WIL for International Students'. This session was

focused on the increasing number of WIL related co-curricular activities preparing international

students for more formal WIL experiences and employment. The discussion generated in the

forum is being continued via a new blog moderated by the chapter committee:

http://acennswactchapter.blogspot.com.au/

ACEN has continued with their successful webinar series, with the latest one held on the 3rd of

April on Assessing employability outcomes through WIL: Challenges and Opportunities.Webinars

continue being an effective way of reaching out to many people without requiring travel to attend.

On April 6th, the Queensland chapter of ACEN held a symposium: Exploring Global WIL: WIL

Experiences & Funding.http://acen.edu.au/acen-q-exploring-global-wil-international-wil-

experiences/

Applications for the ACEN $10,000 research grants have opened, closing 2nd of May.

http://acen.edu.au/acen-research-grants/

The ACEN Student Scholarship applications are now also available: http://acen.edu.au/acen-

research-grants/

NZACE now has a new chairperson, Dr Jenny Fleming (AUT).As arranged mid last year, our long

service chairperson, Katharine Hoskyn, stepped aside and Jenny has stepped into the

role.Katharine is greatly thanked for her huge contribution to NZACE over the years – one of many

achievements was Katharine’s ability to better link NZACE with other national associations and

WACE, including reciprocal conference access and collaborative work on providing online

professional development opportunities.Thankfully, her service is not entirely done just yet, as she

will continue on as a NZACE council member and within the informal capacity of ‘past-chair’.

The annual NZACE conference will be held on the 26-28th of April in Queenstown.Keynote

speakers will be Pat Linn and Richard Coll. http://nzace.ac.nz/2017-conference/

The Gobal WIL team (consisting of Oceania members ACEN and NZACE, with CAFCE and WILA)

are currently running two online modules; one focused on learning theories within WIL and the

other on Employer Engagement.

Dr Karsten Zegwaard, Vice-Chair (Oceania)

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