The good news is that businesses are taking work-integrated learning (WIL) seriously. Hence the Business Higher Education Roundtable (BHER) letter to the Finance Minister on the subject. But I find myself in unusual agreement with Alex Usher in questioning the merit of advocacy for a national strategy. It's not that I think a national strategy is "a substitute for action." Nor is it that I am worried about integrating WIL into the curriculum, though certainly don't think it's the place of a national strategy to do that. No, it's that a single central platform (with funding to other single central platforms) is a bad idea. If WIL is really so important to businesses, then as Usher suggests, they should do more than just write letters. They should put real money into it and make it happen.
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