大学生们！想对实习说什么？
Internships. Externships. Work placements. Field work. When it comes to practical learning experiences, it’s hard to find a course that doesn’t offer such opportunities in an increasingly competitive world. Students actively seek them while employers favour those with such credentials. But a new survey has found that Australian students want more: they want universities to help them find a job once they graduate.
实习、校外见习、工作安排、实地工作……在竞争日益激烈的当下，几乎每门课程都会提供这种实践学习机会。学生积极寻找机会，雇主则青睐那些有资历有经历的应聘者。但一项最新调查结果显示，澳大利亚学生希望得到更多：他们希望大学在他们毕业后帮助找工作。
Three quarters of the 1,000 Australian students surveyed said that universities had a responsibility to help them find employment. In the survey commissioned by study assistance company Studiosity, more than one-third (36 percent) responded that universities should be “partnering students with jobs after they graduate”. Another 25 percent said universities should offer more work placement courses and 15 percent wanted more practical elements in class.
接受调查的1000名澳大利亚学生中有四分之三表示，大学有责任帮助他们找工作。在Studiosity委托开展的意向调查中，超过三分之一（36%）的人认为大学应该“在学生毕业后协助合作找工作”。另有25%的人认为大学应该提供更多的就业安置课程，15%的人希望在课堂上有更多实践内容。
Work-integrated learning is a essential component of Australian higher education.The Career Ready Graduates report published earlier this year found close to half a million university students took part in industry-led projects, fieldwork, practical simulations and work placements in 2017. These career-preparation activities, known as work integrated learning (WIL), are considered important by 91 percent of Australians, with one in three rating them as “extremely important” and a further one in three rating them “very important”.
工作学习一体化的学习模式是澳大利亚高等教育的重要组成部分。今年早些时候发表的《毕业生就业报告》中指出，2017年有近50万名大学生参加了行业主导的项目、实地工作、实践模拟、工作安置。有91%的澳大利亚人认为，这些被称为“工作学习一体化（WIL）”的职业准备活动非常重要，其中三分之一的人认为“极其重要”，三分之一的人认为“非常重要”。
The nation’s first comprehensive snapshot of WIL also found that Australian universities offered 555,403 workplace experiences in 2017. These are equally distributed across 357,806 Australian students or permanent residents, 93,126 international students, 5,486 indigenous students and 67,116 students from regional and remote Australia.
该国首份WIL综合简介还发现，澳大利亚大学在2017年提供了555403次工作安置体验，这些机会均摊给了357806名澳大利亚学生或永久居民、93126名留学生、5486名土著学生和67116名来自澳大利亚各偏远地区学生。
But what does this desire for universities to play the dual role as a work placement agency suggest? Speaking to Times Higher Education, Studiosity’s Chief Academic Officer, Judyth Sachs, doesn’t think it’s a good idea. The former provost at Sydney’s Macquarie University said: “Is there value in students applying their learning through work-integrated learning placements, service learning or whatever you call it? That’s the overarching question. Then there is a question about what role the university should play, so that responsibility for finding placements also gets clarified.
但这一举措对大学发挥就业中介双重功效有什么作用呢？在接受《泰晤士报》高等教育采访时，Studiosity首席学术官员Judyth Sachs表示这种做法有待商榷；悉尼麦考瑞大学前教务长表示：“学生通过工作学习一体化模式实习、服务学习或其他方式来将学到的东西用于实践是否有价值？这是首要问题。还有一个问题是大学应该扮演什么角色？这样学生工作安置的责任就可以清楚划分。”
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