Perspectives on graduate employability attributes for management sciences graduates

Admission Conditions and Graduates’ Employability

Admission Conditions and Graduates’ Employability We evaluate the information content of admission conditions for study programs’ quality by investigating its relationship with graduates’ employability. We find that study programs with larger numeri clausi are associated with a higher probability of finding a job. Additionally, compulsory admission exams seem to be informative about study progr...

Graduate Employability in Asia

Rethinking Generic Graduate Attributes

The issue of Generic Skills has received considerable attention over recent years as universities seek to renew and articulate their purposes and demonstrate the efficient achievement of these, particularly in response to calls for accountability. As an articulation of the core outcomes of higher education as a process (HEC 1992) generic skills (or generic attributes as they are also known) are...

Do Study Abroad Programs Enhance the Employability of Graduates?

Do Study Abroad Programs Enhance the Employability of Graduates? Despite the great popularity of international educational mobility schemes, relatively little research has been conducted to explore their benefits. Using data on a large sample of recent Italian graduates, this paper investigates the extent to which participation in study abroad programs during university studies impacts subseque...

Graduate Students' Perspectives on Effective Teaching

This study employed data collected over an 8-year period in which graduate students' perspectives on effective teaching were collected during a class exercise. The data were organized into three categories: (a) teaching competence (knowledge of content and teaching), (b) relationships with students (having the best interests of students at heart), and (c) teacher attitudes (with respect to teac...