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WACE CASE STUDY 2023
PROGRAM AT A GLANCE
- DELIVERY -
- 40 Tertiary Institutions from 41 countries
- 676 students
- Students & clients from 43 countries
- 4-week authentic, remote social impact project for a client
- Multi disciplinary, transnational (OECD + non-OECD) student teams
- Projects focused on advancing initiatives aligned to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
- Global Skills + Cross-Cultural Competence focus
- Collaboratively designed & delivered by WACE and Practera
- RESULTS -
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85% Completion Rate
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84% student satisfaction with quality of briefs & support materials
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90% student satisfaction with Practera app
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86% student satisfaction with Practera support team
- 83% average student self rating of employability skills development (problem solver, collaborative, service orientation top skills)
- 71% of clients felt the project increased business decision or porject making
- 89% students will reference the experience for future job opportunities
OVERVIEW AND CHALLENGE
PROGRAM OBJECTIVE
- To activate a global network of Universities and teams of diverse transnational students to assist organisations to advance initiatives aligned to the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
- Prepare university students for the dynamic global workplaces of the future with real industry experience
- Increase equity, diversity and & Inclusion in WIL through global challenge industry experience program
THE SOLUTION
WACE partnered with Practera to co create and launch a Global Challenge student-industry project Using a highly scalable, equitable, inclusive and virtual project model, teams of multidisciplinary, transnational students worked on a real business challenge with a real industry client advancing their UN sustainable development goals and received authentic feedback from their industry client.
Multi-national Student Team
Industry Client
Program Manager
How it Worked
The Results
KEY DATA INSIGHTS ON THE RESULTS & IMPACT OF THE WACE GLOBAL CHALLENGE INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE BASED ON LEARNER & INDUSTRY FEEDBACK
Student Completion Rate
Student Satisfaction
Student improvement in professional works
Student improvement in employability skills
Students will reference the exxperience for future job opportunities
Student of the Practera App
Industry Willingness to recommend
Clients felt the project increased business decision making or capbility
“This program gives you opportunity to work across cultures with real clients while still in your home country!”
Pimpawan Suranaree University of Technology, Thailand
“I had a really great experience and built relationships with my group members that will definitely result in a lifetime bond. We met up and had fun will creating our business plan.”
Elackeya Sivaloganathan University of Waterloo, Canada
“It was an eye-opening experience for me and a great opportunity to work with actual clients to practice their analytical and consulting skills.”
Khizer University of Central Asia, Tajikistan
"The report has been well prepared by the team and they have completely understood the topic and done
a great study on Indonesia within the short span of time. A truly great team to work with.”
“Thank you once again for you invaluable help in researching and collating this report in response to the brief given by Asian Trails - fantastic job! We will no doubt be using this in the company as we charge into 2022 and hope to develop more accessible product offerings. Well done on researching a topic that is still very much in in its infancy across Asia and bringing to the table concrete examples of how and what areas Asian Trails look at to begin this journey.”
What is WACE?
- WACE: international professional organization dedicated to developing, expanding, branding and advocating for cooperative & work-integrated education
- WACE Global Co-operative & Work Integrated Learning Charter (2019): promotes the transformative potential of all forms of WIL with specific calls to action including:
- Increase quality global opportunities for students
- Increase student intercultural fluency and resilience
- Focus on equity, diversity and inclusion
Would you like to engage your students with the WACE Global challenge?
Find out more about the program dates and
Express your interest below or connect with
Partnershipsprogramsvc@waceinc.org
or Practera team for a discussion