Reflections on the 2017 HEA STEM conference: graduate employability challenges and solutions

Graduate Employability in Asia

Reflections on the conference

The evaluations that were at the center of attention in the IRP/ASPE conference were impressive testimony to the commitment to careful evaluation on the part of the agencies involved. Compared to even a decade ago, these evaluations almost uniformly demonstrated a high level of technical knowledge and were tackling programs of the sort that previously would have gone unevaluated or would have b...

The Representation of Social Actors in the Graduate Employability Issue: Online News and the Government Document

This paper presents the first part of a larger study on the issue of graduate employability in Malaysia as construed in public discourse in English, a language of power in Malaysia. The term employability itself has many definitions depending on the requirements of government and industry, and in the case of Malaysia, the English-language ability of graduates is inseparable from graduate employ...

on the equivalence of constructed-response and multiple-choice : stem-equivalent, stem non-equivalent but content equivalent, and stem and content non-equivalent items in reading comprehension using multifaceted rasch

the present study investigated construct equivalence of multiple choice (mc) and constructed response (cr) item types across stem and content equivalent mc and cr items (item type ‘a’), non-stem-equivalent but content equivalent mc and cr items (item type ‘b’), and non-stem and non-content equivalent mc and cr items (item type ‘c’). one hundred seventy english-major undergraduates completed mc ...

Report of the second conference on diabetes and Ramadan, Iran, Mashhad, 2017

The phrase " va man kan marizan " on the fasting of the holy month of Ramadan in the verse of 185 of the Qur'anic Surah, followed by the phrase "Yaridullah Bekem Alisar va Yerido bekom alosr", is undoubtedly a major task of medical scientific assemblies. To conduct comprehensive and evidence-based studies, firstly, should determine the course of fasting in patients, and, second, patients who ma...