Is Mass Higher Education Working? Evidence from the Labour Market Experiences of Recent Graduates

2004 ◽  
Vol 190 ◽  
pp. 60-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Elias ◽  
Kate Purcell
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Detailed Examination ◽  
Highly Qualified ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Occupational Structure ◽  
Mass Higher Education ◽  
Graduate Employment ◽  
Recent Graduates ◽  
The Uk

This paper uses a variety of recent sources of information to explore the labour market experiences of those who gained a degree in the 1980s and 1990s. Specifically, we address the issue of ‘overeducation’ — the view that the expansion of higher education in the 1990s created a situation in which increasing numbers of graduates were unable to access employment that required and valued graduate skills and knowledge. Two complementary approaches to this issue are adopted. We review available evidence on the graduate earnings premium and change in the UK occupational structure, and we conduct a detailed examination of the earnings and characteristics of jobs done by a large sample of 1995 graduates seven years after graduation.We conclude that, while there may have been a decline from the high premium enjoyed by older graduates, for those who graduated in 1995 the average premium was holding up well, despite the expansion. Although we found differences between established graduate occupations and the newer areas of graduate employment, our evidence suggests that the development of new technical and managerial specialisms and occupational restructuring within organisations has been commensurate with the availability of an increased supply of highly qualified people.

Higher-Level Skills in the UK

1995 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 165-169
Author(s):  
Helen Connor
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Mass Higher Education ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Skill Supply ◽  
Scientists And Engineers ◽  
The Uk

This article provides an overview of current trends in the supply of higher-level skills in the UK. The author suggests that at higher levels increasing the supply of qualified people is unlikely to be an adequate measure to gain international competitive advantage, and that greater attention needs to given to increasing the quality (in terms of better and more relevant skills) and to stimulating demand for graduates in the wider economy. It is, she argues, difficult to justify expansion of the higher education sector in the absence of evidence of an increased requirement on the part of employers to match any growth in supply. The articles that follow in this ‘Special Focus’ on skills needs discuss specific aspects of the labour market for higher-level skills. Gill Court considers the labour market for graduates in the USA and the lessons for other countries of moving to a mass higher education system; Helen Lawton Smith looks at national laboratories and the effects that recent political decisions have had on their role in skill supply and skill renewal; and finally Gill Court and Nick dagger assess data on the recruitment of non-national staff to research centres, highlighting the extent of the European mobility of scientists and engineers.

Progression of Skills and Competencies through University to Employment

1998 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 290-296 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Hobrough ◽  
Rodney Bates
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Work Experience ◽  
Leadership Skills ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Graduate Employment ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
Undergraduate Experience ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Business Sectors

This paper discusses findings of a research project comparing skills of business-related advanced GNVQ/GCE students in the UK, together with perceptions as to how skills develop through undergraduate experience into employment. Expectations of employers in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are also indicated. GNVQ students seem more aware of business needs than GCE students, and appear to have a greater awareness of teamworking. GCE students tend towards a recognition of leadership skills and improvement of self-sufficiency during higher education. Work experience is identified as the major need within higher education for SME employment across Europe and the acquisition of a foreign language is identified as a growing need for graduate employment, not only in Europe but also in certain UK business sectors.

Autodesk Revit - Key to Successful Training of Highly Qualified Civil Engineers

2015 ◽  
Vol 725-726 ◽  
pp. 1617-1625 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Zolotova ◽  
Nikolai Vatin ◽  
Eugenia Tuchkevich ◽  
Alexandr Rechinsky
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Building Industry ◽  
Highly Qualified ◽  
Civil Engineers

Nowdays step by step all companies are moving to BIM technology. It forms one of the main demands of the labour market, influencing the principles of specialist`s preparation in the construction industry higher education institutions. Knowledge of the latest BIM systems is the main. The leader among programs in field of industrial and civil construction is Autodesk Revit. The aim of this work is an overview of Autodesk Revit and evidence of the importance of Autodesk Revit in the training of professionals in the building industry on the example of students` works.

scholarly journals Validation of the competence profile of agri-environmental engineering bachelor course

2010 ◽  
pp. 63-71
Author(s):  
Julianna M. Fricz ◽  
Csaba Juhász
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
Agricultural Policy ◽  
Common Agricultural Policy ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Environmental Engineering ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Highly Qualified ◽  
The Common

As member of the European Union, the development if the Hungarian agriculture is determined by the Common Agricultural Policy. After the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy in 2003, the environmental protection has got a crucial function. The constant changing role of agriculture has reacted students in higher education. For firms connected to agriculture, human resource management based on competency has an important role in custody of competitiveness. One of the most important goals of firms is to supply the demands of their economic partners. To make it successfully, highly qualified human resource is required. The quality of human resource is determined not only by its qualification, language skills, professional experience, and practise, but extant competencies that can also be developed. To choose the expectant employee, it is not enough for them to have intelligence and proficiency; it is also decisive to examine their particular competencies. All of these will define the employee’sachievement that will definitely contribute to the success of the enterprise. Basically, closer cooperation is needed between higher education institutions and employers to achieve this goal. At the same time, the higher education institutions can revise their training systems considering the actual requirements of labour market, and accordingly, they can form syllabus in a way to train auspicious experts. In this article examination of the requirements of labour market for graduates from agri-environmental engineering bachelor course is presented.

scholarly journals THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CONTENT OF VOCATIONAL TRAINING OF MASTER’S DEGREE STUDENTS TO MANAGEMENT IN PRESCHOOL EDUCATION

2020 ◽  
pp. 218-226
Author(s):  
Ирина Анатольевна Селиверстова ◽  
Марина Леонидовна Семенова
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Theoretical Analysis ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Education Program ◽  
Vocational Training ◽  
Training Programs ◽  
Preschool Education ◽  
School Education ◽  
Highly Qualified ◽  
Education Standard

Рассматриваются вопросы подготовки будущих специалистов дошкольного образования к управленческой деятельности. Целью исследования является установление взаимосвязи между требованиями стандарта высшего образования, рынка труда и работодателя как основание отбора профессиональных компетенций при проектировании содержания образовательной программы магистратуры. Авторами использованы метод теоретического анализа, сопоставление реальных запросов практики в целом и задач подготовки будущих руководителей. В результате обозначены профессиональные компетенции и индикаторы их достижения, востребованные работодателем. Выводы и предложения авторов интересны в теоретическом и прикладном плане, могут быть применены при разработке и реализации программ подготовки высококвалифицированных социально активных кадров дошкольного образования. Discusses the preparation of future pre-school education specialists for management activities. The aim of the study is to establish a relationship between the requirements of the higher education standard, the labour market and the employer as a basis for selecting professional competencies in the design of the content of the master's education program. The authors used a method of theoretical analysis, comparing the actual requests of practice in general and the tasks of training future managers. As a result, the professional competences and indicators of their achievements, demanded by the employer, are marked. The authors' conclusions and proposals are interesting in theory and application, and can be applied in the development and implementation of training programs for highly qualified, socially active pre-school education.

scholarly journals Az erdélyi magyar felsőoktatás és a munkaerőpiac kapcsolata

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Beáta Kádár
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Highly Qualified ◽  
Role Players

Tanulmányomban bemutatom a felsőoktatás és munkaerőpiac kapcsolatának legfontosabb szakirodalmát, miután bemutatom az erdélyi magyar két nagy felsőoktatási szereplőjét. Ezután ismertetem a kvalitatív (fókuszcsoport a jelenlegi hallgatók körében, interjú a vállalatvezetőkkel) és kvantitatív kutatásom (kérdőíves kutatás a munkaerőpiacon sikeresen helytálló felsőoktatási végzettséggel rendelkezők körében) eredményeit. AbstractConnections between Hungarian higher education and labour market in TransylvaniaAfter introducing the two big role players of Hungarian higher education in Transylvania, in my paper I present the most relevant literature on the connections between higher education and the labour market. Then I introduce the results of my qualitative (focus group with current students and interviews with company leaders) and quantitative (query-based research within the group of highly qualified people being successful on the labour market) researches.

scholarly journals Reconceptualising fair access to highly academically selective universities

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vikki Boliver ◽  
Pallavi Banerjee ◽  
Stephen Gorard ◽  
Mandy Powell
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Background ◽  
Procedural Fairness ◽  
Evidence Base ◽  
Highly Qualified ◽  
Distributive Fairness ◽  
Selective Universities ◽  
The Uk ◽  
First Time ◽  
Fair Access

AbstractThe higher education regulator for England has set challenging new widening access targets requiring universities to rethink how merit is judged in admissions. Universities are being encouraged to move away from the traditional meritocratic equality of opportunity model of fair access, which holds that university places should go to the most highly qualified candidates irrespective of social background, in accordance with the principles of procedural fairness. Instead, they are being asked to move towards what we term the meritocratic equity of opportunity model, which holds that prospective students’ qualifications should be judged in light of the socioeconomic circumstances in which these were obtained to enhance distributive fairness, a practice known in the UK as contextualised admissions. In this paper, we critically discuss the theoretical underpinnings of these two competing perspectives on fair access and review the existing empirical evidence base, drawing together for the first time insights from our ESRC and Nuffield Foundation funded studies of fair access to highly academically selective universities in England. We argue that reconceptualising fair access in terms of distributive fairness rather than procedural fairness offers a more socially just set of principles on which to allocate valuable but scarce places at the most academically selective universities in England, unless or until such time as the vertical stratification of higher education institutions is reduced or eliminated entirely.

scholarly journals HIGHER EDUCATION AND LABOUR MARKET IN UKRAINE: A DECADE OF INTERACTION

2021 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-38
Author(s):  
Natalia Mospan
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Circular Economy ◽  
Supply And Demand ◽  
Careful Study ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Highly Qualified ◽  
The Government ◽  
High Level ◽  
National Labour Market

The national model of interaction between higher education and the labour market was formed under the influence of world processes (globalization, marketization, internationalization, Europeanization). In 2020, the national economy, having reached the frontier of its development, was struck by the COVID-19 pandemic, whose negative consequences require rigorous analysis and careful study. Since 2014, the negative trends in the interaction of higher education with the labour market have begun to grow. They manifested in a shortage of highly qualified workers, or inconsistency of qualifications with the requirements of the national labour market. These trends continue to escalate in recent years. At the legislative level, there was an attempt from the government to outline steps towards the interaction of higher education with the labour market but without defining specific mechanisms. The economic and financial crisis has required the government to transit to another form of financing higher education institutions and to restructure and even reduce their number. The current state of interaction between higher education and the labour market is defined as unbalanced. That has led to a mismatch between supply and demand in the national labour market; the high level of unemployment among graduates of higher educational institutions and professionals with higher education; increasing student and labour migration; distance learning and work remotely. Ukraine is gradually losing modern factors of economic growth – human capital. Prospective trends are considered in the transition to a circular economy; the inclusion of the “environmental” dimension of the circular economy in professionals training and education. The article analyses the interaction of higher education with the labour market in Ukraine over the past decade (2010-2020). The study focuses on an analysis of past, current and future trends in higher education, the labour market and national legislation from the perspective of sustainable economic development. The research is interdisciplinary and mixed (theoretical and empirical). For visualization of the analysed phenomena and conclusions, the surveys data conducted in 2015, 2017 and 2020 are presented.

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