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Download full textOsborne, Natalie; Grant-Smith, Deanna – Australian Universities' Review, 2017
Increasingly those working in higher education are tasked with targeting their teaching approaches and techniques to improve the "employability" of graduates. However, this approach is promoted with little recognition that enhanced employability does not guarantee employment outcomes or the tensions inherent in pursuing this agenda. The…
Descriptors: Employment Potential, Higher Education, College Instruction, Resistance (Psychology)
Direct linkJohnson Morgan, Melissa; Finkelstein, Joanne – Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 2017
Getting a good and relevant education is difficult enough to achieve within a context where social and economic needs are constantly unsettled by political policy. The public funding of the education sector has become a contested arena irrespective of a government's ideology. Recent graduates from various disciplines from Town Planning to…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Change, Education Work Relationship, Student Educational Objectives
Lu, Jingyan – International Education Studies, 2016
This paper discusses the impact of medical technology on health care in light of the fact that doctors are becoming more reliant on technology for obtaining patient information, making diagnoses and in carrying out treatments. Evidence has shown that technology can negatively affect doctor-patient communications, physical examination skills, and…
Descriptors: Medical Services, Medical Education, Influence of Technology, Physicians
Støren, Liv Anne; Arnesen, Clara Åse – Quality in Higher Education, 2016
This paper examines the factors that may have impact on the extent to which the knowledge and skills of master's degree graduates in Norway are utilised at work, three years after graduation. The focus is on the impact of the quality of the study programme as well as the graduates' fields of study, when also taking into account other factors…
Descriptors: Skill Analysis, Job Skills, Masters Degrees, Graduate Surveys
Pew Research Center, 2016
Tectonic changes are reshaping U.S. workplaces as the economy moves deeper into the knowledge-focused age. These changes are affecting the very nature of jobs by rewarding social, communications and analytical skills. They are prodding many workers to think about lifetime commitments to retraining and upgrading their skills. And they may be…
Descriptors: Labor Market, Economic Change, Economic Impact, Educational Needs
Hora, Matthew T.; Benbow, Ross J.; Oleson, Amanda K. – Wisconsin Center for Education Research, 2016
The idea of a skills gap suggests that employers have jobs available but cannot find skilled applicants because higher education is poorly aligned with workforce needs. This idea is shaping higher education and workforce development policy at the national and state levels, yet limited research exists on the experiences of employers and educators…
Descriptors: School Support, Achievement Gap, Education Work Relationship, Cultural Capital
