scholarly journals Role of the public university in the labor market of its graduates

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
José Nicolás Barragán Codina
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Public University ◽  
University Graduates ◽  
The Public ◽  
The University ◽  
Daily Occupation

Key Words: Graduates, education institutions, labor market, universityAbstract. The market labor for the University graduates has become one of the top issues in academic daily occupation. Education institutions must understand that they had to be part of the occupational efforts made by its graduates. When I was teaching in Germany, the university official told and make very clear that I must not talk about the entrepreneurship sprit to the students; “there is a greart unemployment out there, there is no job available for our students, our only commitment is give them education, find a job is on their own”. Doing nothing to help them to relocate in the labor market, is worst, and I consider is our job to.Palabras claves: Graduados, instituciones educativas, mercado de trabajo, unviersidadesResumen. La colocación en el marcado laboral para los graduados de las universidades se ha convertido en un de los puntos mas importantes de las agendas de trabajo de las instituciones educativas. Las Universidades y las Instituciones Educativas deben comprender que tiene que ser parte de los esfuerzos de colocación en el mercado de trabajo que llevan a cabo sus graduados. Cuando me encontraba en Alemania dando clases, las autoridades de la Escuela de Pedagogía, me dejaron bien claro al advertirme que no debería de hablar a los estudiantes sobre el espíritu emprendedor: “existe por ahora un gran desempleo aquí, básicamente no hay trabajo para nuestro estudiantes, nuestra único compromiso es educarlos, buscar trabajo es por su cuenta”. No hacer nada para ayudarlos a colocarse en el mercado de trabajo es lo peor, y debe aun, ser considerado nuestra responsabilidad.

scholarly journals Open Research, Open Engineering, and the Role of the University in Society

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Devin R. Berg
Keyword(s):  
Technological Development ◽  
White Paper ◽  
Public University ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Public Knowledge ◽  
The Public ◽  
Engineering Community ◽  
Open Research ◽  
The University

This is a white paper submitted as part of the joint NIH/NSF-funded event, "Imagining Tomorrow’s University: Rethinking scholarship, education, and institutions for an open, networked era", to be held March 8th and 9th in Rosemont, IL. In this paper I present my personal (not my employer's) thoughts and reflections on the role that open research can play in defining the purpose and activities of the university. I have made some specific recommendations on how I believe the public university can recommit and push the boundaries of its role as the creator and promoter of public knowledge. In doing so, serving a vital role to the continued economic, social, and technological development of society. I have also included some thoughts on how this applies specifically to my field of engineering and how a culture of openness and sharing within the engineering community can help drive societal development.

scholarly journals The university, the city and the clown: A theological essay on solidarity, mutuality and prophecy

2015 ◽  
Vol 71 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephan De Beer
Keyword(s):  
Public University ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Public ◽  
The One ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City ◽  
Liberation Theologian

This essay is informed by five different but interrelated conversations all focusing on the relationship between the city and the university. Suggesting the clown as metaphor, I explore the particular role of the activist scholar, and in particular the liberation theologian that is based at the public university, in his or her engagement with the city. Considering the shackles of the city of capital and its twin, the neoliberal university, on the one hand, and the city of vulnerability on the other, I then propose three clown-like postures of solidarity, mutuality and prophecy to resist the shackles of culture and to imagine and embody daring alternatives.

scholarly journals O pensamento crítico acerca da universidade na América Latina: de Darcy Ribeiro à “modernidade-colonialidade”

2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 149
Author(s):  
Adelia Miglievich-Ribeiro
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Public University ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Original Design ◽  
The Public ◽  
Creative Experience ◽  
America Latina ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The University

Resumo Articulando os temas do desenvolvimento, das desigualdades sociais, da autodeterminação dos povos e da constituição de um sistema científico e tecnológico, interessa descortinar o lugar da universidade pública na utopia latino-americana em efervescência nos anos 1960 e 1970. Partindo da experiência emblemática de criação, em 1962, da UnB em Brasília sob a liderança de Darcy Ribeiro, inspirado em seu mestre Anísio Teixeira, e de seus enfrentamentos que culminaram na dissolução de seu projeto original pelo Golpe de 1964, examino a relevância das propostas nela contidas na atualidade assim como proponho o diálogo com o pensamento emancipatório no continente sob a rubrica da “modernidade-colonialidade-decolonialidade” que aprofunda o papel da universidade pública na reescrita da história, no reconhecimento das vozes subalternas e na perseguição da utopia, uma pluritopia, a começar no tempo presente.Palavras-ChaveUniversidade, Darcy Ribeiro, América Latina; decolonial.---AbstractCoordinating the themes of development, social inequality, self-determination and the establishment of a scientific and technological system, it is relevant to unveil the place of the public university in the Latin American upheaveled utopia in the 1960s and 1970. Based on the flagship creative experience in 1962, the University of Brasilia in Brasilia under the leadership of Darcy Ribeiro, inspired by his master Teixeira, and its confrontations that culminated in the dissolution of its original design by 1964's coup, I look into the importance of the proposals contained in it today as well as I suggest a dialogue with the emancipatory thinking on the continent under the rubric of "modernity-coloniality-Decoloniality" that deepens the role of the public university in the rewriting of history, in the recognition of the undermined voices and in pursuit of utopia, one pluritopia, beginning today.KeywordsUniversity, Darcy Ribeiro, Latin America, decolonial---ResumenArticulando los temas del desarrollo, de las desigualdades sociales, de la autodeterminación de los pueblos y de la constitución de un sistema científico y tecnológico, interesa descortinar el lugar de la universidad pública en la utopía latinoamericana en efervescencia en los años 1960 y 1970. Partiendo de la experiencia emblemática de creación, en 1962, de la UnB en Brasília bajo el liderazgo de Darcy Ribeiro, inspirado en su maestre Anísio Teixeira, y de sus enfrentamientos que culminaron en la disolución de su proyecto original por el Golpe de 1964, examino la relevancia de las propuestas en ellas contenidas en la actualidad, así como propongo el diálogo con el pensamiento emancipador en el continente bajo la rubrica de la “modernidad-colonialidad-decolonialidad” que profunda el papel de la universidad pública en la reescrita de la historia, en el reconocimiento de las voces subalternas y en la persecución de la utopía, una pluritopía, a empezar en el tiempo presente. Palavras-Chaveuniversidad, Darcy Ribeiro, América Latina; decolonial.

scholarly journals The university-industry relationship under diferent approaches: the entrepreneurial university to academic capitalism

Educação ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 73
Author(s):  
Evandro Coggo Cristofoletti ◽  
Milena Pavan Serafim
Keyword(s):  
Academic Capitalism ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Entrepreneurial University ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World ◽  
Industry Relationship ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
University Industry

The economic and political changes in the world, from the 1970s, changed the political education of the Public Institutions of Higher Education in the world. The direction of these changes was clear: the university approachedthe market and the company and created interaction mechanisms that did not exist. The article therefore reviews the academic literature that interprets the relationship between university and market/company from two perspectives: approaches that positively position of interactions, exposing their motivations, interests and forms of interaction, especially the notions on Knowledge Economy and Entrepreneurial University; approaches that observe this interaction critically and reflectively, exposing the problems of interaction, its negative aspects and the reflection of the true role of the public university from the perspective of Academic Capitalism.

scholarly journals The Role of Universities in Sustainable Economic Development In Pivotal

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 37-54
Author(s):  
Zoha Adel Mahmoud
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The State ◽  
Social Progress ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The University ◽  
Second World

institution is one of the highest institutions that have the task of providing the development needs of the community of specialists in various fields, in addition to being the centers of scientific research and applied to ensure economic and social progress It enriches decision makers with expertise and skills and thus controls political performance. In any society, the university can not play its full role in social change without interaction between the individual on the one hand and the social environment on the other, Social and interdependent Ah syndrome change, they strengthen the skills, and enrich the spirit of innovation of the individual, and raise the level of social progress. It helps to improve the conditions of the poor segments of the population and facilitates the employment opportunities of the individuals imposed by the society as they meet the needs of the individual and society of different professions, thus providing an opportunity for production and thus have a positive impact on the standard of living to achieve the well-being of the individual and the citizen. The interest reflected on the progress, such as Germany, which was interested in it became one of the main reasons that led to the rise of Germany from the ruins of the Second World War as well as the State of Malaysia, which moved from developing countries to the second world countries by changing the plan Colleges and institutes of universities. In 2020, Malaysia will be among the developed countries. In these countries, higher education, vocational training and training are viewed as a basis for life supplementation and are seen as a major means of improving and upgrading society. If we are to explore the dimensions of education in the 21st century, one of the pillars of education is learning for action, Usually involves the acquisition of skills and the linking of knowledge to practice as an essential part of the training and rehabilitation of the individual for practical life. Hence, such new trends in linking educational preparation to work have been imposed by the labor market and the working life in its new forms. Production and service facilities, The advanced, assumed graduates who can be employed and absorbed can contribute to the development of competitiveness, to provide innovations and creations to achieve the competitive advantage of the enterprise, and to improve production and productivity based primarily on the acquisition and application of knowledge. Gamerdinger reveals that the new technology does not accelerate the possibilities for sound economic policies and increasing global trade, and this requires strategies to develop work related to the development of human performance, and in order to face the state of chronic unemployment globally, education policies are headed towards the so-called reverse conversion as many graduates of specializations Literaries choose vocational and technical education in technical and community colleges. Unemployment in the Arab world carries certain characteristics that must be taken into account when developing the solutions available to them. The most important of these characteristics are: Unemployment is a youth phenomenon. Weak professional experience available to the unemployed. Lack of targeted planning for the labor market. The large gap between the outputs of higher education for youth and the requirements of the labor market. The most important recommendations aimed at enhancing the role of universities in Iraq are: 1 - the operation of labor graduates of technical and technical institutes in the industrial field in order to promote them and eliminate unemployment and increase the hard currency as an important category of Iraqi society, which contributes actively to the renaissance of the country. Linking the Ministry of Industry and Commerce with the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research to be managed by the Minister of Education alone. The Ministry is keen on the funds of the Iraqi people and contributes to the development of the industrial and commercial sectors with the help of professors and university students. 3 - the need to match the needs of the market and education outputs to reduce unemployment, in addition to the vocational education has become an urgent need at this stage to keep pace with the needs of life in society away from the negative view of this education. 4 - Increasing the number of technical workshops and providing them with the means of material in order to provide the university student maximum desired learning. Enhancing the role of higher education in building a broader partnership and cooperation with various other community institutions (public, private and private sector). 6 - Re-admission plan in universities by making the number of admissions in scientific colleges more than the number of admissions in the humanitarian colleges. 7 - Attracting foreign investment companies to invest natural resources in Iraq such as phosphate, natural gas, oil, oil shale, uranium, silica and geothermal energy for the recovery of the economy and the trend towards domestic consumption.

scholarly journals Interdisciplinarity master programs in Greek universities: Οrganization and cognitive conditions

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 85
Author(s):  
Georgios Stamelos ◽  
Georgios Aggelopoulos
Keyword(s):  
Sociology Of Science ◽  
Master's Programs ◽  
The Public ◽  
Interdisciplinary Programs ◽  
Internal Relations ◽  
Institutional Funding ◽  
The One ◽  
The University ◽  
Institutional Actors

This paper focuses on the development of interdisciplinarityin the Master’s programs in Greek universities. For our analysis, we searched for tools from the Sociology of Organisations (Mayntz) and the Sociology of Science (Whitley). We argue that the University and its keyactors have adopted interdisciplinarity, firstly, as a means to increase institutional funding, and secondly, with care so as not to disturb theinternal institutional structure and the power relations between the key actors in the University. Indeed, on the one hand, universities, responding to the public calls for interdisciplinary programs, took advantage of the European support program for Greece in order to enrich their infrastructures. On the other hand, the new structures and functions (interdisciplinary Master’s programs) remain loose and weak. So the central role of the Department and laboratories remains intact. As a consequence, the internal relations of the institutional actors are protected. Thus, interdisciplinarity seems to be a low priority issue. However, it is interesting to consider that more than 10 years after theend of European funding, the majority of these programs remains active.

Faculty Are Not Employees

2018 ◽  
pp. 60-71
Author(s):  
Holden Thorp ◽  
Buck Goldstein
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Patient Care ◽  
Academic Freedom ◽  
Shared Governance ◽  
Tenured Faculty ◽  
The Public ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship

The role of faculty forms the heart of the university in terms of its scholarship, patient care, and teaching. It is important that the university and the faculty rededicate themselves to outstanding teaching; the erosion of teaching by tenured faculty is contributing to the strain in the relationship with the public. Tenure, academic freedom, and shared governance are all indispensable concepts in the functioning of a great university that are mysterious to those outside the academy. Communicating the importance of these concepts is a critical need for higher education.

The Changing Mission and Nature of Partnerships in Public Universities

2013 ◽  
pp. 726-741 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marianne Robin Russo ◽  
Kristin Brittain
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Public Education ◽  
The United States ◽  
Public University ◽  
Public Higher Education ◽  
The Public ◽  
Academic Mission ◽  
New Business ◽  
K 12 ◽  
The University

Reasons for public education are many; however, to crystalize and synthesize this, quite simply, public education is for the public good. The goal, or mission, of public education is to offer truth and enlightenment for students, including adult learners. Public education in the United States has undergone many changes over the course of the last 200 years, and now public education is under scrutiny and is facing a continual lack of funding from the states. It is due to these issues that public higher education is encouraging participatory corporate partnerships, or neo-partnerships, that will fund the university, but may expect a return on investment for private shareholders, or an expectation that curriculum will be contrived and controlled by the neo-partnerships. A theoretical framework of an academic mission and a business mission is explained, the impact of privatization within the K-12 model on public higher education, the comparison of traditional and neo-partnerships, the shift in public higher education towards privatization, a discussion of university boards, and the business model as the new frame for a public university. A public university will inevitably have to choose between a traditional academic mission that has served the nation for quite some time and the new business mission, which may have negative implications for students, academic freedom, tenure, and faculty-developed curriculum.

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