Academic and Student Affairs Collaboration for Enhancing Students’ Future Work Skills in Cambodian Higher Education
Keywords:
Academic and student affairs collaboration, Future work skills, Higher education, CambodiaAbstract
Literature highlights the crucial roles of academic affairs and student affairs in an educational institution in enhancing student learning. Cambodian higher education institutions mainly focus on academic affairs and neglect student affairs—lack of collaboration. Skills mismatch has profoundly been a radical challenge for Cambodian higher education, requiring students to have future work skills to compete in the job market. This paper aims to propose an academic and student affairs collaboration framework that enhances students’ future work skills by reviewing extensive literature. The framework consists of three elements: collaboration outcomes, collaboration implementation, and collaboration supports. The collaboration outcomes are the desired outcomes of ten future work skills. Collaboration is implemented in terms of criteria or characteristics of successful collaboration under eight principles of good practices of higher education. Collaboration implementation cannot be effective unless there is support from leadership at both institutional and ministry levels and structure and resources for reorganization and support in collaboration.
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