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Higher education and the myths of graduate employability

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Author	Tholen, Gerbrand Brown, Phillip
Copyright Year	2017
Description	The relationship between higher education (HE) and labour market has never been so contested as in the last decade. There are continuous and sharpened debates about whether the UK labour market can keep up with the growth of HE in creating 'graduate level' jobs. In addition, considerable political heat has been generated over who should pay for HE, as the earning prospects of many graduates have been below expectations. This chapter argues that the policy drive to reform HE as a means of improving graduate employability and narrowing social inequalities, is difficult to reconcile with today's labour market. The employability skills that are becoming part of the formal curriculum in many universities bear little relationship to the way employers recruit for 'graduate' jobs. The chapter reviews the existing literature on graduate employability and then discusses some of the evidence on graduate employment. It describes the limitations of the recent employability-focused drive to improve labour market outcomes for graduates. Book Name: Higher Education and Social Inequalities
Related Links	http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/16620/1/Higher%20Education%20and%20the%20Myths%20of%20Graduate%20Employability%20final.pdf https://api.taylorfrancis.com/content/chapters/edit/download?identifierName=doi&identifierValue=10.4324/9781315449722-10&type=chapterpdf
Ending Page	166
Page Count	15
Starting Page	152
DOI	10.4324/9781315449722-10
Language	English
Publisher	Informa UK Limited
Publisher Date	2017-08-09
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Book Name: Higher Education and Social Inequalities Economics History and Philosophy of Science Graduate Employability Employability The Relationship Labour Market
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Chapter

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