Beyond employability skills: Developing professional purpose

E-Skills, Competitiveness and Employability

In Europe in particular, the so-called Lisbon Strategy has enhanced efforts to mobilize active economic and social forces around education, innovation and knowledge intensive sectors and activities such as information and communications technologies. At the same time, European institutions and national governments have pursued their efforts to deepen and strengthen a European social model where...

Employability skills in the Master of Professional Accounting : One school ’ s journey

This paper describes the efforts made by the School of Accounting, Finance and Economics at Edith Cowan University (ECU) to address concerns expressed by the accounting profession, employer groups, higher education reviews and universities regarding the employability of accounting graduates and the need for accounting graduates to demonstrate a higher level of competence in non-technical skills...

The Importance of Developing Employability

Developing Models of Professional Competence to Enhance Employability in the Network World

Key drivers of change today include rapid advances in computing and networking technologies, continuing growth of the information and knowledge economy and expectation of value-added personalised services. Related effects of environmental forces on the library and information profession include a convergence of interests around electronic delivery, a blurring of boundaries between professional ...

No Dilemma at all: The Importance of Liberal Education in Developing Skills for Employability

140 A climate characterized by global financial instability, budgetary belt-tightening, and stringent public accountability has certainly contributed to calls for reevaluating the value and purpose of post-secondary education and, especially, liberal education. On the one hand, some suggest that post-secondary education should aim to provide students with specialized knowledge and credentials n...