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2014
Employability has been put into focus of educational developments by governments, policymakers and other stakeholders since the beginning of the Bologna process. This often met with strong negative reactions coming from academics and students. Keeping academic values at the core of education is opposed to transforming higher education institutes purely into agents for economic development. At the same time students do strive for employment after graduation, and preferably meaningful employment.
Studies in Higher Education
Employability deconstructed: perceptions of Bologna stakeholders2014 •
The paper analyses employability as a floating signifier – a construct that accommodates different and often contending meanings. A preliminary analysis of scholarly literature identifies two opposed interpretations of employability – an individual responsibility versus a comprehensive context-aware construct. These are subsequently applied to the discourse of the major interests in the Bologna Process: policy-makers; institutions and academics; students; and employers. Their standpoints are examined from two dimensions: How far is responsibility for employability individualised? and What is higher education's role in fostering employability? As a concept, employability commands little consensus. Rather, it is interpreted in the light of each interest group's concerns. As to higher education's role, utilitarianism characterises all but academic actors' views. Applying the concept of a floating signifier to employability as it is debated within the Bologna Process – a policy arena for competing interest groups to dispute meaning – reveals a finer, more nuanced understanding of how policy comes to be and, in particular, the importance of discourse and conflicts over meaning as factors intrinsic to it.
2018 •
The problem of youth unemployment is a global issue. This article discuss in depth the youth unemployment problem. It analyses the characteristics, causes, and consequences of graduate unemployment and examines its relationship to the Bologna Process. A qualitative research has been done with focus group discussions of Bachelor and Master Degree students. The study explores the nature of the labour market for higher education graduates and the main obstacles that youth face on their journey from education to employment. The study aims to determine whether graduate unemployment is a result of shortage of jobs, skills, or lack of coordination. It includes recommendations for involving the government, the managing bodies of higher education institutions as well as employers and career service offices in order to overcome youth unemployment.
European Educational Research Journal
Higher Education and Employability of Graduates: will Bologna make a difference2010 •
SSRN journal
Higher Education is it Boon for Employability.pdf2015 •
In the emerging global world order, institutions are trying to position itself as a knowledge driven centres. The challenges are many and momentous. As a stakeholder of higher learning will agree that it is not just about the higher level of educational structure in the country. The development of student’s intellectual and imaginative power their understanding and judgement, problem-solving skills, ability to communicate, and to perceive their field of study in a broader perspective. In order to survive in the competitive world of globalization, all higher education institutions should play special attention to quality in higher education. Quality from three different perspectives- Product (output of the education institutions), software (process in the education institution), and service (the activities that have direct impact on student satisfaction). The paper mainly concentrates to identify the applicability of the course to employability, to recognize the need for innovative pedagogy in higher education and its benefits for employability and also to identify the limitations of the existing education system.. Mainly the study finds that students are not able to employable by present higher education system and also there should need for change in the system of higher education.
Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning
Change: The Reframing Student Employability: From Commodifying the Self to Supporting Student, Worker, and Societal Well-Being2020 •
2011 •
The basic objective of higher education throughout the civilization was to be employable. Graduates are in competition to perform a good figure in the job market while they are there. Higher education and employment is intertwined though for few, it may be different. Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) are also busy to develop ways to make their graduates employable. The performance
Employability With Student Eyes, as the main research study of the Student Advancement of Graduates Employability (SAGE) project, reflects opinions of the National Students’ Unions on the current Higher Education trends, focusing primarily on the buzz term “employability” and the ways this concept is being dealt with in various national contexts, in response to the EU and the EHEA policies and strategies. It is also set to prove that employability is not a one-size-fits all concept and that it’s understanding and implementation highly depends on the national educational and economical policies. Also, it offers a unique definition of employability, from the students’ point of view, as well as policy recommendations for enhancement of employability.
Employability is becoming increasingly central to the mission and functioning of universities, spurred on by national and supranational agencies, and the demands of marketisation. This article provides a response to the normative dimensions of the question, progressing through four stages: first, there is a brief consideration of the meaning and manifestations of employability, and the historical conditions underpinning its emergence; second, the question is addressed of whether employability is a desirable societal and individual aim per se; third, there is a discussion of the fundamental purpose of the university, drawing on the well-known accounts of Newman and Collini, before – fourth – addressing the principal question of whether and in what way employability might fit within that purpose. It is argued that employability is a valid aim of universities only in so far as it is consistent with the central purpose of the institution to foster human understanding through open-ended enquiry. Further questions are discussed, namely whether other social institutions are better equipped to promote employability, possible costs for the university, the ethical dimension, and differences between public and private institutions.
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