The Future of Education

As the job market constantly changes, both graduates and employees must adapt to the rapidly changing workplace. University career services play a crucial role in helping explore career pathways, develop essential skills and become career ready. This presentation examines how career services are adapting to better support undergraduate international students within a liberal arts curriculum. Liberal Arts Education has a long-standing tradition of offering a broad range of courses related to humanities, social and natural sciences, fostering students to think freely and actively contribute to the making of a free society (1). Beyond subject-specific knowledge, liberal arts emphasise the ability to ask meaningful questions, analyse information critically, understand and solve complex problems, learn how to learn and develop lifelong learning skills and experiential learning (2). In turn, this becomes a link between academic theory and practical knowledge, allowing students to gain rich firsthand experience. Drawing on the example of the American University in London, this presentation explores how career services tailor their support and resources - such as Richmond Leadership Academy - to help students translate their academic experiences and campus engagement into transferable skills preparing students for the world of work.