Are we there yet? Supporting staff and students to understand expectations and standards of graduate attributes in degree programs

Graduate attributes are an orienting statement of education outcomes used to inform curriculum design and the provision of learning experiences at a university (Barrie et al., 2009). As a requirement of Australian government funding of universities in 1992, all Australian Universities are required to make a public statement of graduate attributes. While all Australian universities make such claims in policy and curriculum documentation, the effective integration of these into programs has been somewhat intangible (Taylor et al., 2009), resulting in students not fully engaging with the expectations of degree programs...