Industry sits at the centre of everything we do — co-creating talent through work-integrated degrees and apprenticeship-embedded learning.
Through the partner network, companies help shape curricula, mentor apprentices, and recruit graduates they already know. The commercial logic is straightforward: partners gain a pipeline of talent they have shaped and tested for three years before making a hiring decision — dramatically reducing recruitment risk and onboarding cost.
For the university, industry partnership converts the single largest cost of skills education — equipment and real work environments — into a shared asset.
Industry partners at steady state
Apprenticeship starts
Apprenticeship-to-hire conversion target
Partnership functions
Every programme engineered with industry, not just for it — partners sit on Boards of Studies and shape what is taught and how it is assessed.
The formal agreement under which partners host students in stipend-supported apprenticeships integrated with the academic calendar.
Structured workplace learning inside every degree from Semester 1, with credit-bearing assessment of workplace performance.
A target network of 500+ organisations — factories, hospitals, hotels, studios, farms, retailers and technology firms — built out in phases.
The graduate-hiring channel through which employers recruit students they have already trained and observed at work.
Streamlined campus engagement, vetted candidate pools and dedicated placement support for external recruiters.
Placement treated as a built-in journey, not a final-year event — apprenticeship-to-hire conversion as the primary pathway.
A searchable directory of work-experienced graduates, filterable by skill, school and experience.
Annual recognition of the students, mentors and partner organisations who best embody the university's skill-and-service ethos.