VU is transforming how it teaches now it is starting work on what

Victoria U plans to roll out its small-group, single-subject intensive-study block teaching model across all UG years. Now the university announces it will transform the curriculum, inviting its community to advise on a new academic programme.

In a discussion paper DVCs Marcia Devlin and Grant Dreher suggest VU will need to meet the needs of future graduates for, “reskilling through their working lives, creating significant growth in short courses, non-award courses, lifelong learning relationship models and potentially the need for shorter, more time-effective degrees.”

They propose priority disciplines in higher education and VET that VU should focus on, in both existing delivery modes and potential micro-credentials.  And they set out principles for planning, notably; “all programmes will include advanced technology offerings that provide capability that can be leveraged across the university as a whole – to help all VU students increase their ‘tech readiness’”.

Devlin and Dreher also potentially put established VU programmes on notice. An employment focus in courses may mean, “we will need to consider how reshape and repurpose the general degrees (Arts, Science).”