‘At the Frontier of Graduate Surveys’ |
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| Authors: | Matti E Lindberg |
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| Institution: | 1.Research Unit for the Sociology of Education,University of Turku,Finland |
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| Abstract: | Compared with the problems one encounters when trying to use ‘graduate employability’ as a measure of the quality of higher
education, recognising how the definitions of ‘employability’ are dependent on the type of the data used in analysing the
phenomenon in question is a totally different matter. This article demonstrates how the understanding of graduate employability
varies when the viewpoint of the analysis changes from cross-sectional to longitudinal. Indicators obtained from the educational
and working careers of graduates with master’s degree in nine European countries are used to illustrate differences between
the two views on employability. The article shows that longitudinal indicators are useful in displaying the limitations of
the higher education system when trying to improve the employability of graduates. |
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| Keywords: | graduate employability graduate survey international participation in higher education transition from higher education to work |
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