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Enhancing Employability of Bachelor's Graduates: Insights from the 2007 Job and Education Fair

This presentation explores the critical issue of employability for graduates with bachelor's degrees, as discussed during the Job and Education Fair in Vienna, March 2007. It examines the implications for higher education institutions (HEIs) in fostering employable graduates, the necessity for practical knowledge and skills integration, and the evolving expectations of lifelong learning. Key discussions include the integration of specialized knowledge, social skills, and innovations in education that help graduates adapt to a knowledge-based economy.

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Enhancing Employability of Bachelor's Graduates: Insights from the 2007 Job and Education Fair

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  1. “Bachelors and Employability” Presentation for BeSt3 “The Job and Education Fair”, Vienna, Friday, March 2, 2007 David F. J. Campbell david.campbell@uni-klu.ac.at http://www.iff.ac.at/hofo

  2. Bachelors and Employability 2007/01 • What is employability? • One answer: the ability (degree of ability) of graduates to find jobs after completion of their studies. • Implication #1: Employability becomes a liability and responsibility of HEIs. • Implication #2: Employability may serve as a benchmark and as key performance indicators for HEIs.

  3. Bachelors and Employability 2007/02 • Objectives for Bachelors (“BAs”) and “employability” are: • BA graduates should receive a “knowledge” that can be applied and thus transformed into a practical occupation context. • BA students should be able to finish their BA studies in a pre-defined time frame.

  4. Bachelors and Employability 2007/03 • What is knowledge? Ramifications are: • Integration of knowledge creation/production, diffusion and use; • In epistemic terms: “Mode 1” and “Mode 2”; • Societies and economies are increasingly knowledge-based; • The importance of “innovation”.

  5. Bachelors and Employability 2007/04:What is knowledge?

  6. Bachelors and Employability 2007/05:What is knowledge?

  7. Bachelors and Employability 2007/06:What is knowledge?

  8. Bachelors and Employability 2007/07:What is knowledge?

  9. Bachelors and Employability 2007/08:What is knowledge?

  10. Bachelors and Employability 2007/09:Challenges for the employability of BAs • The Bachelors as a “short-term” degree versus the expectation that, as a consequence of LLL (“life-long learning”), the demand on the individual to extend the number of accomplished academic degrees will expand; • “BA” degrees must be seen as “individual components” of a more comprehensive education and degree system;

  11. Bachelors and Employability 2007/10:Challenges for the employability of BAs • The Bachelors must integrate: (specialized) knowledge, social skills, personality; • Practical knowledge (internships/“Praktika”) will gain crucially in importance for the BA; • The disciplinary tracks of the BA degrees will equal the disciplinary logic of the previous system versus the disciplinary basket will be reshuffled;

  12. Bachelors and Employability 2007/11:Challenges for the employability of BAs • BAs: “Comprehensive scope” and/or “focused scope”; • BAs: “Academic orientation” and/or “professional orientation; • BAs: “Full-time” and/or “part-time” (in parallel to an occupation) studies;

  13. Bachelors and Employability 2007/12:Challenges for the employability of BAs • BAs: Language of teaching in the national language (German) and/or in English; • BAs: Recognition of work experience for certain BA modules or not; • BAs: “Horizontal mobility” – the ability of adding additional studies and degrees in an “interdisciplinary mode” after completion of a BA’s degree.

  14. Bachelors and Employability 2007/13:Hypothetical typology & virtual % distribution of BAs and MAs • In the following, as working hypotheses for a further debate, a (micro) typology of different profiles of BA and MA degrees and of their (“virtual”) percentage distribution of frequency – in the future – are being presented.

  15. Bachelors and Employability 2007/14:Hypothetical typology & virtual % distribution of BAs and MAs

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