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The Seven Ages of Man

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The Seven Ages of Man

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All the world’s a stage,

And all the men and women merely players;

They have their exits and their entrances,

And one man in his time plays many parts,

His acts being seven ages… 

As You Like it

Shakespeare, 1599

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1. Infant ‘mewling and puking’

2. Whining schoolboy

3. Lover ‘sighing like a furnace’

4. Soldier ‘sudden and quick in quarrel’

5. Justice ‘full of wise saws’

6. Pantaloon ‘spectacles on nose and pouch on side’

7. Second childishness ‘Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything’

Seven ages

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Functions of higher education

• Developing and disseminating advanced-level knowledge and skills through teaching and scholarship

• Generating new knowledge and developing new applications of knowledge

Thereby:• developing and maintaining a just, civil and

sustainable society• building the national economy

Sutton, 2009

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• Entry to practice level education• Safe beginning level practitioner• Skills acquisition• Communication, self-awareness, teamwork?

• Ongoing professional development• Advanced skills• Leadership, mentoring • Change management

Ages 2 through 6 (7?)

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• Changing social/employment context • Technology, work structures & requirements• No longer ‘jobs for life’• Globalisation of work

• Individual, employers, government• Sustaining employability• Transforming employment• Enhancing employment

Ages 2-7 con’t

Billett et al. 2012

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Stakeholder Sustaining employability

Transforming employment

Enhancing employment

Individual Continuing to remain employable

Transforming occupational role

Seeking advancement and promotion

Employer Competent workforce to meet current and emerging skills needs

Workforce development – re-engineering workforce

Succession planning

Government Continued employment and resisting redundancy

Developing the capacities for occupations in demand

Having systems with the capacity to contribute fully and for a long working life

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We are either progressing

or retrograding all the

while; there is no such

thing as remaining

stationary in this life.James Freeman Clarke (1810-1888)