When a degree is not enough, how can students make themselves more employable?
Full-time employment is up, the gender gap has widened, and employers are generally satisfied with the quality of Australian graduates.
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The relationship between higher education and labour market outcomes is overestimated and misinterpreted.
We need a tertiary education funding system that will help get students into courses with employment opportunities at the end of them.
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New plans will speed students through an intensive training course, that will see them working cases in 12 weeks.
The surveyors start out with almost 100,000 graduate contacts, of whom less than 10% provide their supervisor’s details and of those supervisors, less than half participate in the survey.
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An administrative link between a graduate's education and taxation records already exists, and it could be used to give us more accurate and detailed longitudinal analyses of graduate outcomes.
While securing a stable job is essential, dismissing the qualitative experience of learning and its extraordinary benefits is reductive.
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Global economic realities shouldn't deter African universities from continuing to push for massification. But they must do so armed with knowledge, lessons from elsewhere and strong funding models.
Young people are pressured into university and many end up in unsuitable courses. We need to recognise these realities and be clear about the purpose of higher education so it doesn't lose its value.
Gaining that required qualification to put on your CV is what counts to win a job in today’s “graduate economy”. On current trends, perhaps everyone will have a degree by the end of this century. Already…
Friend or foe to the job-seeker?
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