Employabilité : les grandes écoles françaises s’en sortent bien
Selon le dernier classement du Times Higher Education, douze écoles et universités françaises font parties des 150 établissements mondiaux qui offrent la meilleure employabilité. Plus...
Comment les employeurs recrutent-ils leurs salariés ?
Cette étude présente les premiers résultats de l’enquête Offre d’emploi et recrutement de 2016 qui permet d’examiner les caractéristiques des nouveaux recrutements en CDI ou en CDD de plus d’un mois réalisés entre septembre et novembre 2015. 26 % des établissements disposent d’un service RH et 41 % utilisent leur site internet pour recueillir des candidatures. Plus...
Resisting the ‘employability’ doctrine through anarchist pedagogies & prefiguration (AUR 59 02)
In recent years there has been an increasing emphasis on ‘employability’ as a metric by which the success of a university education and our teaching is, or should be, assessed (Jackson et al., 2013). Academics have been instructed to re-write and re-structure courses to improve the ‘employability’ of our graduates, in everything from scientific and vocational fields to arts and humanities. More...
Tuning in to graduate employability
By Sharon Dell. Among African universities, many of which are rooted in struggling national economies, the issue of graduate employability and entrepreneurship has taken centre stage over the past few years. Read more...
Ready to Work: Employability and Higher Education
Reshaping our understanding of employability
Employability is a term that dominates discussion of higher education, but is frequently subject to misunderstanding. Current developments in this area promise to deliver richer and more meaningful information to enhance understanding of how integral employability activity is to supporting students through their studies and on into the labour market. More...
What do we mean when we say international experiences develop graduates’ employability?
The term ‘employability’ is often used as a throwaway line: jargon which is chucked into the mix to show the importance or relevance of something, frequently used without clarification of what we mean by it. More...
Graduate employability: top universities in Canada ranked by employers
But students already thinking about graduate jobs will be pleased to hear that Canadian universities also maintain an excellent reputation with employers. Read more...
Validation fights exclusion and makes employability possible
Over 200 participants in Cedefop’s conference on how to make learning visible, on 28 and 29 November in Thessaloniki, agreed that validation of non-formal and informal learning is important for Europe’s future. More...