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The Role of Teacher Education in Developing Employability Skills in Higher Education
Handbook of Research on Promoting Higher-Order Skills and Global Competencies in Life and Work, 2019
This chapter explores the need to equip student teachers with the skills that will enable them to train and develop their learners for employability. However, given the broad understanding of employability, it is important to recognize that the quality of a university graduate is not just a reflection of the quality of the curriculum and its supporting academic environment. It reflects the demands of the industry as well as the competence of the regulating body (i.e. related government institutions) in shaping the characteristics of higher education graduates. It might be overly simplistic to say that universities are encouraged, if not pressured, to produce employable graduates. The higher education sector therefore needs to recognize and understand the context of employability for their graduates to ensure that their students can live up to the expectations from governments and employers.
The Value of Education for Students that are Preparing for the Teaching Profession
The contribution focuses on the interpretation and reflection of two levels of the process preparing young people for the job market. We point out the schizophrenia to which the educational system has been exposed. On the one hand, educational institutions are under social pressure to prepare individuals to be flexible within the job market, and on the other hand such institutions legitimately defend themselves against actions which reject educated union members. The status of an educated person is no longer bound to social status; and this is also the result of continuously increasing commercial pressure on educational institutions. The pressures lead to perfunctorily acquired information without deeper understanding of the educational content. The objective of this article is to discover and cast light on the attitudes to education assumed by students preparing for the teaching profession.
Preparing School Graduates for the Labour Market
2020
Despite their determination to work and build their careers, school graduates are not sufficiently prepared to look for work and the opportunities to search a job. In most cases they are well prepared in theory and language and are literate in modern technologies. Their biggest handicap is the lack of practical skills and work experience. At the same time, graduates have to face the challenges of accelerated globalization and digitization. It is necessary to find answers to questions about what professional knowledge, practical skills, attitudes and values will be shaped by today's graduates and how education systems can develop the required knowledge and skills. The ambition of our contribution is to identify the main disparities that must be overcome in order to achieve the goal of the country's economic development strategy, in which the education system must inevitably correspond to the labour market requirements.
A Study of Employability Skills Among Student Teachers Affiliated to Shivaji University Kolhapur
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), 2020
Employability is the buzz word in the market. The success or outcome of Higher education is measured in terms of the placement of the students. The demands of market are changing with tremendous speed due to globalization. The market is open to all and survive you need to be fit for the purpose. People invest in education to acquire good job and get back the returns they have invested for education. In the present study the researcher has made an attempt to measure the employability skills among the student teachers. The descriptive survey method was adopted for the present study and the data was collected from the teacher educators pursuing in aided colleges. The study reveals that there is no significant difference in the employability skills among the student teachers from different district. Student teachers are high on Lifelong learning Leadership skills and low at Academic Communication skills and ICT Skills.
Employability With Students' Eyes
2014
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.
International Journal of Applied Research
Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) are responsible for supplying the labor market with professionals that not only possess knowledge, but also the competencies and skills demanded by the workplace. In order to evaluate the relevance of their program offerings to the demand of the labor market, colleges and universities, like the Nueva Ecija University of Science and Technology (NEUST), conduct tracer studies on the employability of their graduates. With this, the researchers conducted this tracer study to determine the employability of the teacher education graduates of NEUST, San Isidro Campus from 2016 to 2020. It further aimed to trace their employment and the skills or competencies that they have acquired from the university which proved to be useful in their current employment, as well as their correlation with each other. It used descriptive-correlation method. The findings revealed that there is positive correlation between the graduates' select profile variables and their employment and their perceived useful competencies and skills. There was also a direct correlation between their employment and their perceived useful competencies and skills. Recommendations for future tracer study initiatives were also made.
Pedagogy for Employability HEA 2012 revised edition
This guide constitutes a revised and updated version of the Pedagogy for employability publication first published in 2006. This original publication was produced under the auspices of the Higher Education Academy and the Enhancing Student Employability Co-ordination Team (ESECT), and formed part of the Learning and Employability Series, a set of publications offering guidance and information to staff in higher education institutions involved in the enhancement of student employability.
2019
Education is the basic response to challenges of the socio-economic status of a nation. The higher education, particularly, is tasked to develop human resources that will become a productive and relevantly employed member of the society. One of the important metrics in the implementation of the quality and relevant education is the realization of the graduates of the program in attaining their professional goals. Anchored on the concept that tracking system is a vital basis of information to determine the status of graduates of academic programs, this descriptive study aims at specifying the profile of the graduates of a Teacher Education Institution in their current employment and earned employability skills. Through the use of an institutionally crafted instrument adapted from the Commission on Higher Education, a total of 178 graduates from 2009 to 2017 identified via criterion-referenced purposive sampling positively responded to the survey instrument. Analysis revealed that the...
Employability of Students - Problems and Perspectives
IAEME PUBLICATION, 2015
Many Indian youth are unemployed, under-employed, employed in jobs of low quality and working long hours for low wages. Many of them are engaged in dangerous work or receive only short term and or informal employment arrangements. More than 50 per cent of the employed youth are disadvantaged due to lack of workplace skills. There are many reasons for the unemployment or under employment and accepting low quality jobs. The present paper mainly focuses on the employability of student youth and various aspects of employability. Different types of problems in securing of employment will be discussed. The paper also discusses about the perspectives of employability and role of colleges in the employability of students. Employability is ‘a set of achievements – skills, understandings and personal attributes – that make graduates more likely to gain employment and be successful in their chosen occupations, which benefits themselves, the workforce, the community and the economy’ (Mantz Yorke, 2004) Employability refers to an individual’s perception of his or her possibilities of getting new, equal, or better employment (Berntson,2008). An individual’s chance of a job in the internal and/or external labor market (Forrier and Sels, 2003). Employability refers to a person's capability for gaining and maintaining employment (Hillage, 1998). For individuals, employability depends on the knowledge, skills and abilities they possess, in addition to the way they present those assets to employers. The Centre for Bioscience has adopted a broad interpretation of the term employability 'ensuring that students can demonstrate that they have the appropriate knowledge, skills and attitudes to enable them to obtain, to develop during, and to perform excellently in, periods of employment which meet employers' needs and provide a satisfying career'. Some others defined that the employability is about work and the ability to be employed, such as: • the ability to gain initial employment; hence the interest in ensuring that ‘key skills’, careers advice and an understanding about the world of work are embedded in the education system • the ability to maintain employment and make ‘transitions’ between jobs and roles within the same organization to meet new job requirements, and • the ability to obtain new employment if required, i.e. to be independent in the labour market by being willing and able to manage their own employment transitions between and within organisations. It is also, ideally, about: • the quality of such work or employment. People may be able to obtain work but it may be below their level of skill, or in low paid, undesirable or unsustainable jobs, and so forth. • The capacity and capability of gaining and maintaining productive work over the period of one's working life. Hillage and Pollard (1998) noted that the employability is the capability to move self-sufficiently within the labor market to realize potential through sustainable employment. Robinson (2000) observed that the employability is a basic set of skills necessary for getting, keeping and doing well on a job. Employability is not the same as gaining a graduate job, rather it implies something about the capacity of the graduate to function in a job and be able to move between jobs, thus remaining employable throughout their life. The USEM model (Knight and Yorke, 2004) outlines employability as four broad and inter-related components: Understanding, Skilful practices (including deployment of skills), Efficacy beliefs (including students views of themselves) and Meta-cognition (including self-awareness and a capacity to reflect on learning).