Matching Curricula with Labour Market Needs for Higher Education: State of Art, Obstacles and Facilitating Factors

Mocanu, Cristina; Zamfir, Ana Maria; Pîrciog, Speranţa

doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2014.08.234

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“…Therefore, to avoid a single and narrow view on curriculum development, new mechanisms that allow a periodical exchange of information among stakeholders need to be put in place. This may be done through regular meetings among the largest employers in the region and/or representatives of employers, ‘in order to identify their needs and assess their satisfaction, increasing the duration of practice stages, establishing links with previous alumni, organizing job fairs in universities, etc’ (Mocanu et al, 2014: 605–606).…”

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University curricula and employability: The stakeholders’ views for a future agenda

Pereira¹,

Vilas-Boas

Rebelo

2020

Industry and Higher Education

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This article explores which measures are perceived by European key stakeholders (students, employers and academics) as crucial for the development of curricula that provide graduates with working-life competences and key skills that may increase their employability. It also seeks to identify measures that may strengthen cooperation between companies and universities. This was achieved through the application of 1734 questionnaires to key stakeholders in five European countries which are part of the European project #Europehome. The most popular measure identified by all stakeholders was the internship. More specifically, internships are considered of great importance to increase graduates’ employability as well as being the best means of cooperation between universities and companies. In addition, the study identified a range of best practices and measures that may help lay the foundations and sustain the development of well-planned curricula.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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University curricula and employability: The stakeholders’ views for a future agenda

Pereira¹,

Vilas-Boas

Rebelo

2020

Industry and Higher Education

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“…In this context, the proposed framework can be used by universities to establish a common strategy to reduce the gap between their supply and market demand in the BA field. In Romania's particular case, this has been a specific recommendation made by the European Comisson in 2013, to improve the match between educational curricula and labour market demands as part of the national higher education system reform [47]. Such a correlation would help students' career perspectives and their productivity which in turn would mean an increased competitiveness and output for the economy.…”

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A Framework for Evaluating the Business Analytics Maturity of University Programmes

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The impact that business analytics (BA) has on companies’ performance will cause, in the near future, a significant increase in the demand for specialists in the field. Universities will play an important role in covering the deficit of professionals already reported by companies, provided that their offer is tailored to real market demands and their students are prepared to acquire the appropriate knowledge and skills. This paper proposes a framework for assessing the maturity level of BA in economic university programmes, based on the knowledge and technical skills needed by BA professionals. This maturity framework is applied to Romanian economic study programs to assess their analytical level and to identify their possible development directions. The educational programmes offer is then confronted with the real demand on the Romanian labour market, highlighting the types of jobs needed in the BA field and the related requirements for each of the analytical levels of the proposed model.

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“…Studies that analyse how different skills are needed in the labour market represent a growing area of research (Mocanu et al, 2014), and a wide range of surveys have been carried out in this area. Some studies have focused on the role that individual attributes play in determining the education-job match (e.g.…”

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“…Boudarbat and Montmarquette, 2018;Frenkel and Leck, 2017;Morgado et al, 2016) state that the nature of this incompatibility can take many forms, including overqualification, underqualification or simply experience incompatibility. Several studies emphasise the fact that many competencies developed during the years of higher education are not very useful in the labour market, while others are not developed properly (Mocanu et al, 2014). Often, when graduates start working, employers realise that they do not have the skills they need (Matsouka and Mihail, 2016;Suleman and Laranjeiro, 2018).…”

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How to develop higher education curricula towards employability? A multi-stakeholder approach

Olo

Correia

Rego

2021

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PurposeThis paper aims to find out what conditions are needed to enhance higher education curricula towards employability from the perspective of different stakeholders in the graduate labour market.Design/methodology/approachAn empirical study was developed, using a qualitative approach, based on semi-structured interviews with higher education institutions (HEIs) and labour market players, in the north region of Portugal. The data were analysed through content and descrip\tive analysis with NVivo.FindingsThe results show a set of constraints that hinder the match of higher education curricula with employability, namely, (1) the weak connection between HEIs and employers and (2) the curricular structure, which is characterised by a heavy theoretical component and a weak approach to the soft skills required by the current labour market. Possible solutions, with implications for educational policy, are given throughout the study.Research limitations/implicationsThe geographical scope and the nature of the study suggest that some precautions are required when generalising results. However, the literature on other areas in Portugal strengthens the findings and compensates for the sample's limitations.Originality/valueThis study combines the perspectives of the different individual stakeholders involved which, when taken as a whole, provide some recommendations for tailored curricula towards employability. Other studies in Portugal address each of these issues individually, without a connection between all the different perspectives.

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Matching Curricula with Labour Market Needs for Higher Education: State of Art, Obstacles and Facilitating Factors

Cited by 14 publications

References 5 publications

University curricula and employability: The stakeholders’ views for a future agenda

University curricula and employability: The stakeholders’ views for a future agenda

A Framework for Evaluating the Business Analytics Maturity of University Programmes

How to develop higher education curricula towards employability? A multi-stakeholder approach

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