University Graduate Profile Refresh Overview

Work is now underway to develop programme level capabilities to ensure the revised Graduate Profile is embedded by Semester 1, 2024.

Until this time programmes will continue to align with our current profile, which you can read about here. 

Following on from consultation with students and staff, the revised Graduate Profile is now available.

The University Graduate Profile is a critical foundational statement for teaching at Waipapa Taumata Rau |The University of Auckland.   

Since its introduction in 2015, the University’s current Graduate Profile has shaped the individual graduate profiles of the degrees offered, and the design of  its programmes and individual courses. The University is held accountable to show its programmes are balanced and that all its students have the opportunity to develop the capabilities specified. 

The distinctive, bold vision for the University expressed in our new strategy Taumata Teitei, has driven the need for a refresh of our Graduate Profile to ensure it best captures our aspirations for our students.  

At the heart of that vision for students, is that the University fosters graduates who make the world better tomorrow than it is today. 

A university education should be a transformative experience for students, and our current Graduate Profile expresses our aspirations that our graduates become scholars, leaders, innovators and global citizens. Our graduate profile, and the alignment of our teaching with it, should clearly demonstrate to students, external agencies, and employers how we equip students with the capabilities to achieve these ideals.

It is six years since the introduction of our current graduate profile, and the world is in a state of flux. There are both exciting opportunities - and challenges - posed by the concerns of our age. In addition, the distinctive, bold vision for the University expressed in our new strategy Taumata Teitei, drive the need for a refresh of our graduate profile to ensure it best captures our aspirations for our students.

At the heart of that vision for students, is that the University fosters graduates who make the world better tomorrow than it is today.

The refresh process occurred in three phases. Phase one was a response to the previous graduate profile through a consideration of the gap analysis and questions posed in this document. In phase two, the graduate profile working group developed a draft of a proposed new graduate profile which then moved to stage three where feedback was sought on the draft. A final graduate profile was approvedby Senate.

Each Faculty is now tasked with refreshing the graduate profiles associated with each individual programme to ensure they remain aligned with the overall University graduate profile. This will ultimately lead to individual courses ensuring that the learning outcomes and assessments are still appropriately related to the aspirations of the programmes in which they sit.

The Graduate Profile working group is part of the Curriculum Transformation Programme and includes the following members:

• Duncan McGillivray (Science)
• Susan Geertshuis (B&E)
• Sue Laurenson (B&E)
• Oriel Kelly (CDM, Law)
• Barbara Staniforth (EDSW)
• Daniel Wilson (Science)
• Patrick Girard (Arts)
• Deborah Walker-Morrison (Arts)
• Marcia Leenen-Young (Arts)
• Jamie Denton (RAA)
• Claire Donald (CDM, Engineering)
• Ashwini Datt (FMHS)
• Laura Wilkinson-Meyers (FMHS)
• Mark Andrews (Engineering)
• David Lines (CAI)

For general enquiry about the Graduate Profile Refresh Project, contact: graduate-profile-research@auckland.ac.nz.