Insights & frameworks
Capabilities & employability
The graduate profile as a living system: what the institution declares (macro), how the curriculum translates it into a progression of capabilities (meso) and where they are truly developed and evidenced (micro).
Layers this area activates
Every educational transformation plays out in three layers at once. The layers are the same in any institution; their content and milestones change depending on whether it is a university, a school or a school network.
macro
Strategy, governance and institutional model
Institutional strategy, governance, educational model and AI policy. What the rectorate and board decide.
Typical milestones
Strategic plan · institutional graduate profile · assessment framework · AI strategy · evidence system
Purpose, identity and educational model of the school; governance between ownership, leadership and school board.
Typical milestones
School educational project · student exit profile · improvement plan · pedagogical leadership model
Shared educational framework of the network and governance between ownership, central team and school heads. The key decision: what is common and what remains each school's autonomy.
Typical milestones
Network educational framework · shared/local model · common exit profile · network dashboard
meso
Curriculum, programmes and academic organisation
Faculties, degrees and curricula. Where the model is translated into coherent programmes.
Typical milestones
Degree redesign · graduate profile per programme · cross-department coordination · accreditation dossier
Stages, cycles and teaching teams; organisation of time, space and progression across years.
Typical milestones
Stage planning · timetables and groupings · vertical coordination · teacher professional development
Coherence across schools: stages, planning, assessment criteria and teacher development aligned without uniformity.
Typical milestones
Comparable planning across schools · cross-school teacher communities · network training plan · practice transfer
micro
Learning experiences, assessment and classroom
Courses, learning experiences and assessment with the student. What is lived every week.
Typical milestones
Course guide · challenges and projects · rubrics and evidence · feedback · AI use in class
Classroom, tutoring and relationship with families. Where the model becomes visible every day.
Typical milestones
Units and projects · formative assessment · individual follow-up · communication with families
Each school's classroom, with its local context. The network provides framework and resources; each school provides the classroom translation.
Typical milestones
Context-adapted units · common assessment criteria · comparable student follow-up · families recognising the same purpose
● central layer · ○ secondary layer
Articles 2
The graduate profile as a living system
The graduate profile comes alive when it guides what is designed, what is accompanied, what is assessed and what an institution is able to evidence. Five connected dimensions.
July 13, 2026
What capabilities must a person develop when AI can answer?
The human graduate profile in the AI era: technological and human capabilities, competency progression and evidence connected to employability.
June 28, 2026
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