Industry-Based Learning - Student Information
The Faculty of Business and Enterprise offers local
students the opportunity to participate in the optional Industry-Based
Learning (IBL) program.The program offers you, the student, the opportunity
to combine study with paid, practical on-the-job experience.
Due to Australian government regulations, optional Industry-Based
Learning is currently not available to international students.
 1.
Selection Criteria
2.
Benefits of IBL
3.
What assistance is provided by Swinburne?
4.
What is the cost of IBL?
5.
Assessment Criteria
6.
Guidelines
7. Placement
1. Selection Criteria
- Students undertaking the Bachelor of Business or the Bachelor
of Business/Bachelor of Arts (Language) on a full
time basis are eligible
to apply for entry into the program.
- Students in their 2nd year of a Bachelor of Business
or 3rd year of a Bachelor of Business/Bachelor
of Arts (Language) are eligible to apply.
- Students
who are enrolled in Business subjects and whose
Faculty has an accredited IBL program, may apply
for an IBL placement
in
the Faculty of Business and Enterprise
- Local students with a Pass average in the preceding semesters of study can register to compete for IBL placements, but as a general rule, employers tend to prefer students with at least a 60% average.
-
The availability
of the program will depend on the number of industry
placements available.
Thus acceptance into the
program does not guarantee an industry placement.
- Students who have less than 4 subjects to complete
in their degree/s, are no longer eligible to undertake
an IBL placement
2. Benefits of IBL
- IBL provides students with six months' or one year's worth of work
experience over other students upon graduation. It provides
a competitive head start
- IBL assists in understanding and appreciating
the complexity of
the work environment
- IBL provides financial freedom
through the opportunity to earn and save money
- IBL allows
both technical and non technical skills to be developed
- Academic
performance often improves following the IBL experience
- IBL
provides the opportunity to experience particular areas
of the chosen discipline to assist in:
- selection of final year subjects; and
- future career decisions
3. What assistance is provided by Swinburne?
- Students selected onto the IBL program are assisted by the IBL Manager
to find available industry positions. These positions
are sourced by the IBL Office of the Faculty of Business
and Enterprise and made available
to all eligible IBL students.
- The Faculty of Business and
Enterprise will arrange IBL Employer sessions where
students have the opportunity to hear about prospective
IBL positions and the IBL experience.
- The Faculty will
provide opportunities for workshops on resume and cover
letter writing and interview techniques.
- The Faculty
will assign an academic member of staff to each placed
student. The staff member acts as a mentor
to the student and will have regular contact with the
student by means of telephone
calls and visits to the student's workplace.
4.
What is the cost of IBL?
Enrolment in the IBL program is at no cost to the student.
Once a student receives an industry placement, their status changes and the General Service Fee is calculated accordingly.
In addition, the IBL Student Contribution Fee is charged.
5.
Assessment Criteria
Students, once placed, must enrol in the IBL subject for the Faculty
of Business and Enterprise. This also applies to students enrolled in
double degrees or degrees across two Faculties of Higher Education Division.
The appropriate IBL course code is always the code of the of the Faculty
that arranges the IBL placement.
Students on IBL placement are required to maintain a record
of the type of work encountered, and their reflections on their personal
and professional development. Students on placement must also submit written assessment.
Students must achieve a grade of satisfactory on the report/s in order to obtain a Pass in the IBL subject. Assessment details are listed below.
The report/s must be submitted to the employer for endorsement prior to
submission to the IBL Manager at Swinburne.
Diary and report guidelines are issued to each student before the placement
commences.
7. IBL Placement Information
IBL Unit Outline (pdf)
IBL Learning Benchmark Process (pdf)
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