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TY - JOUR
T1 - Employability skills initiatives in higher education
T2 - what effects do they have on graduate Labour market outcomes?
AU - Mason, Geoff
AU - Williams, Gareth
AU - Cranmer, Sue
PY - 2009/2/28
Y1 - 2009/2/28
N2 - The present paper makes use of detailed information gathered at university department level, combined with graduate survey data, to assess the impact of different kinds of employability skills initiative on graduate labour market performance. We find that structured work experience and employer involvement in degree course design and delivery have clear positive effects on the ability of graduates to secure employment in ‘graduate‐level’ jobs. However, a measure of departmental involvement in explicit teaching and assessment of employability skills is not significantly related to labour market performance.
AB - The present paper makes use of detailed information gathered at university department level, combined with graduate survey data, to assess the impact of different kinds of employability skills initiative on graduate labour market performance. We find that structured work experience and employer involvement in degree course design and delivery have clear positive effects on the ability of graduates to secure employment in ‘graduate‐level’ jobs. However, a measure of departmental involvement in explicit teaching and assessment of employability skills is not significantly related to labour market performance.
KW - graduate
KW - employability skills
KW - labour markets
U2 - 10.1080/09645290802028315
DO - 10.1080/09645290802028315
M3 - Journal article
VL - 17
SP - 1
EP - 30
JO - Education Economics
JF - Education Economics
SN - 0964-5292
IS - 1
ER -