Graduate Employability and Competence Development in Higher Education—A Systematic Literature Review Using PRISMA

Abelha, Marta; Fernandes, Sandra; Mesquita, Diana; Seabra, Filipa; Ferreira-Oliveira, Ana Teresa

doi:10.3390/su12155900

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“…However, it should be taken into account that there are few graduates who rated that their degrees and curriculum do not fit the needed competencies in the workplace. Part of the chief issues linked to graduate employability is related to mismatch between graduate competences and employer needs (Abelha et al, 2020). A study emphasized that not all the categories under employability skills that target the educational qualifications can be relevant to the graduates for their performance in the place of employment (Abas & Imam, 2016).…”

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University Graduates’ Assessment of the Relevance of the Curriculum to the Labor Market in the Philippines

Toquero

Ulanday

2021

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A university with a relevant curriculum offers authentic practical work experience integrated in the subjects to capacitate the graduates to be job-ready to meet the demands of employers in the industry. In contrast, the graduates are confronted with numerous difficulties in finding a job with their acquired that lacks the required skills from degree curriculum. Based on graduates' self assessment report, this study described the match of the educational qualifications and relevance of the curriculum of the graduates to their current employment. A survey research design was used to gather the self-evaluated responses of 1761 individuals who graduated during 2012 to 2017 from the seven colleges of Mindanao State University-General Santos City (MSU-GSC), Philippines. Questionnaires were distributed for data collection through face-to-face and online data gathering. Results revealed that the supply of graduates’ educational skills are highly matched with the skills demanded by the industry and that the curriculum is responsive to the present employment. This research gives implications on academic and economic policies. The university needs to anchor the curriculum evaluation measures to test the graduates’ employability based on a competence model anchored in real-world work settings. The study highlights to conduct a tracer study across the university with a focus on the job-specific skills of the graduates as per degree specialization and evaluate each specific major course based on the prospectus of the program to align MSU-GSC’s course offerings to the needs of the industry.

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University Graduates’ Assessment of the Relevance of the Curriculum to the Labor Market in the Philippines

Toquero

Ulanday

2021

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“…The role of higher education institutions in promoting the development of competences for employability must be planned carefully because one of the main issues associated with competence development and graduate employability found in the review is related to the mismatch between university graduates' competences and employers' needs. Prior research found that graduate employability and competence development around the world depend on a strong sense of innovation and collaboration practices implemented in higher education [1].…”

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Construction Service Competence Test and Training Center (CSCTTC): Small Business Unit Based on the Potential and Intellectual Creativity of the University

Sriyono¹,

Sardi²,

Putri³

2020

Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Banking, Accounting, Management and Economics (ICOBAME 2020)

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The purpose of this study is to initiate a campusbased business unit are a necessity to support higher education, especially to meet the competency goals of graduates and to be closer to the world of work. However, during the initiation process, the necessity to be in a capitalintensive environment is a problem that is always avoided, even though it is realized that it is impossible to start a business without any capital. To realize this initiation, an approach was carried out by establishing a business incubation. The business incubation program designed by the Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher Education to encourage campus-based business units appears to be operationally able to solve the problem of capital-intensive needs needed to develop campus-based business units. The study result shows that empirically, the existence of initial capital as a driving force for a business unit has a significant effect on the opportunities for the development of the business unit.

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“…As work readiness is in its infancy within the discipline of psychology, it is premature for a systematic literature review to occur until the area has matured. As recently as last year, Abelha et al (2020) completed a systematic review into how higher education institutions prepare gradates for professional practice and found only 69 papers world-wide addressing the topic. Narrowing down further, only seven articles were found to reference the United Kingdom and Australia, and only three papers in the field of psychology, pedagogy, and education.…”

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“…Narrowing down further, only seven articles were found to reference the United Kingdom and Australia, and only three papers in the field of psychology, pedagogy, and education. Importantly, the Abelha et al (2020) review highlights the growing competence-based nature of higher education.…”

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Psychology Education and Work Readiness Integration: A Call for Research in Australia

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Supporting students to develop transferable skills and gain employment is a vital function of Universities in the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. A key area is work readiness, which has steadily grown in importance over the last 2 decades as tertiary institutions increasingly aim to produce graduates who perceive and are perceived as work ready. However, a large majority of graduates report a lack of skills and confidence needed for the effective transition from study to work. This may be particularly problematic for disciplines that impart both discipline-specific and transferrable skills, such as psychology. The aim of this paper is to addresses the concept of work readiness within Australian psychological training and explores the need to shed light on and integrate work readiness within the pedagogy of psychology within Australia. Specifically, this paper calls for a review of work readiness skills developed in psychological courses to ensure industry needs are met. Beyond such a review, it is suggested that tertiary centres need to facilitate students in capturing and reflecting upon the transferable skills that they develop; and build assessments that allow students to demonstrate transferable skills in a meaningful way. Further, this paper proposes that work readiness skills be routinely mapped onto graduate attributes and course learning outcomes to be readily available by students so as to increase students’ potential to articulate their learnt work readiness skills once in the workplace.

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Graduate Employability and Competence Development in Higher Education—A Systematic Literature Review Using PRISMA

Cited by 203 publications

References 77 publications

University Graduates’ Assessment of the Relevance of the Curriculum to the Labor Market in the Philippines

University Graduates’ Assessment of the Relevance of the Curriculum to the Labor Market in the Philippines

Construction Service Competence Test and Training Center (CSCTTC): Small Business Unit Based on the Potential and Intellectual Creativity of the University

Psychology Education and Work Readiness Integration: A Call for Research in Australia

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