Nine graduate capabilities, a highly diverse student body, a place to start

The global higher education environment is becoming increasingly complex with the internationalisation of curricula, development of graduate capabilities and the standardisation of measurement taking priority. This is coupled with increasing demands for employable graduates with sufficiently developed technical and soft skills to ensure workplace readiness. Educators are currently presented with an extremely complex environment. This article showcases a curriculum resource for Accounting that addresses such complexity by building the foundations for developing complex graduate capabilities for a highly diverse student cohort. The context in which the study takes place is described, highlighting the issue of assessment validity for complex graduate attributes that invariably encompass skills, dispositions and values – beyond technical knowledge. The chapter then draws on trans-disciplinary research and principles of best practice to describe and reflect on a framework used for the design and implementation of innovative assessment practice.