ERASMUS MUNDUS, EMPLOYABILITY SURVEY RESULTS

ERASMUS MUNDUS, Clustering Erasmus Mundus Masters Courses and Attractiveness Projects. LOT 2: EMPLOYABILITY SURVEY RESULTS.
Enquête sur l'insertion professionnelle des étudiants Erasmus Mundus – rapport et recommandations, réalisée par MKW et le Céreq
Dans le cadre d'un appel d'offres, la Commission européenne a financé en 2010 et 2011 une enquête menée par MKW et le Céreq sur l'insertion professionnelle des étudiants en masters Erasmus Mundus. Les résultats, analyses et recommandations émanant de cette enquête sont désormais publiés. Téléchargez le rapport de l'enquête. Téléchargez les recommandations de l'enquête.
PRACTICAL GUIDELINES
The Erasmus Mundus programme (EM) aims to promote European higher education, to help improve and enhance the career prospects of students and to promote intercultural understanding through cooperation with third countries, in accordance with EU external policy objectives, in order to contribute to the sustainable development of third countries in the field of higher education. For this purpose the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency commissioned an in-depth quality assessment of Erasmus Mundus Masters Courses (EMMCs) and related projects to enhance its attractiveness, among which the present study on employability of Erasmus Mundus students and graduates.
Erasmus Mundus, actually, can be regarded as an educational programme to meet the challenges arisen from dynamic and international oriented labour markets. In the framework of Europe 2020’s aim “to enhance the performance and international attractiveness of Europe's higher education institutions and raise the overall quality of […] education and training […], combining both excellence and equity”1 Erasmus Mundus can be seen as one important measure, providing high level education for mobile and high skilled students from all over the world in trans-national learning environments covering leading faculties of all academic disciplines offering European double, multiple or joint degrees. Simultaneously, the programme poses high requirements, comprising a highly selective quality recruitment procedure, a time-intensive curriculum, a multitude of educational systems and languages, which demands students’ adaptability.
The present Guidelines offer a means to explore, individually or collaboratively, the challenges Erasmus Mundus Masters Courses have to deal with in bringing their approved excellence in research and teaching in accordance with improving their students’ position on the labour market. Moreover, discovered examples of good practice can lead to practical recommendations of concrete measures how to provide students with prerequisites and resources that make them “employable”. The Practical Guidelines should thus enable Erasmus Mundus Masters Courses as well as universities willing to start a EM programme to reappraise existing course designs in order to develop intrinsic and selfcontained strategies enhancing employability.
Nevertheless, this publication is in no ways foreseen to outline a tailor-made approach to enhance employability, nor as an exhaustive “to-do-list”. Due to the high diversity of the Masters programmes, not every measure can be applied according to the same logic. Notwithstanding the remarkable level that many EMMCs already exhibit, they have been launched at disparate times and to different preconditions and some measures are still “under construction”. Future progress in the area of employability will therefore be exciting to be monitored and continuously updated.
To base the practical guidelines on a scientific point of view, the present document starts with introducing the undertaken quantitative and qualitative survey methods and its most important results. For each of the topics treated, the major findings are summarized and strengthened by a related graph or chart. Afterwards, every topic is illustrated by an example of good practice from one EMMC, which have been gathered during the qualitative interviews and the Erasmus Mundus Employability Workshop, identifying recommendable strategies and solutions. It has to be mentioned that this good practice neither depicts the entire scope of activities of each EMMC, nor is exhaustive for the whole topic. Therefore, each section ends with recommendations drawn from the entire sample of interviews. Finally, a section of general recommendations will conclude these guidelines.
Téléchargez le rapport de l'enquête. Téléchargez les recommandations de l'enquête.