Graduate Employability and Lifelong Learning

Students - your courses

2010-05-20T10:12:00.000+03:00

How do you believe your university/faculty/department prepares you for your likely employment options after graduation?

Students - careers guidance

2010-05-20T10:11:00.002+03:00

Does your university/faculty/department have a career-guidance centre? Would/Do you use it? How would you rate its effectiveness?

Students - further study or employment

2010-05-20T10:10:00.002+03:00

Are you planning to work right after graduation, or are you planning to continue in academic studies (i.e., at the master’s level)? Why or why not?

Universities - knowledge, skills and competencies

2010-05-20T10:09:00.003+03:00

How do you believe your university/faculty/department prepares students for their likely employment options?

Universities - exit points

2010-05-20T10:09:00.000+03:00

What percentage of first-degree graduates of your university/faculty/department go directly to outside employment versus continue in academic studies (master’s studies)?

Universities - lifelong learners

2010-05-20T10:08:00.003+03:00

How does your university/faculty/department serve non-traditional, life-long-learning students?

Universities - graduate feedback

2010-05-20T10:07:00.002+03:00

What feedback from graduates of your university/faculty/department do you get? How does it affect your future curricula planning?

Universities - graduate tracking

2010-05-20T10:06:00.001+03:00

Does your university/faculty/department track graduates and alumni? If so, why and how do you collect the data and in what ways is that information used?

Employers - support for lifelong learning

2010-05-20T10:04:00.003+03:00

In what ways does your company/organization provide support for employees who wish to re-skill or take continuing education courses?

Employers - alumni and careers centres

2010-05-20T10:03:00.001+03:00

Does your company/organization work with either alumni groups or careers guidance centres of universities? If so, in what ways? Why?

Employers - links with institutions

2010-05-19T14:41:00.002+03:00

As an employer, what is your interaction with individual programs/departments at institutions of higher learning (universities, colleges etc)? In what form does this cooperation/interaction take?

Employers - level of qualifications

2010-05-19T14:39:00.003+03:00

As an employer, what level of qualification do you usually expect a graduate employee to have (ie Bachelor's degree (BA/BSc), Master's degree (MA/MBA/MSc)or Doctoral degree (PhD))? Why?

Employers - skills and competencies

2010-05-19T14:37:00.002+03:00

As an employer, what skills and competencies do you specifically look for when hiring university graduates? Which of these do you find most lacking with the graduates you appoint?

Students and Universities - informal and non-formal education

2010-05-18T15:13:00.005+03:00

Are informal and non-formal education opportunitites integrated into your university's programs? If so, how?

Graduates and Students - Bologna style degrees

2010-05-18T15:12:00.006+03:00

What is your experience of the Bachelor's, Master's, Doctoral structure of higher education qualifications?

Graduates and Students - lifelong learning

2010-05-18T15:10:00.006+03:00

Did you return to higher education (either full-time or part-time)after a period of employment? If so, why? What were your experiences?

Universities - employer input

2010-05-18T15:08:00.004+03:00

Does your university/department/program consult employers when developing new or revising exisiting curricula/courses/programs? Why? How?

Graduates - how prepared were you?

2010-05-18T08:18:00.004+03:00

Do you think your university adequately prepared you for the employment market? What courses do you wish had been offered during your degree course? What skills did you have to learn formally or informally after graduation?

Graduates - university contact

2010-05-18T08:15:00.005+03:00

Should universities and colleges keep in touch with their graduates? Does your university ever contact you? In what ways do you think contact with your university would be useful to you and/or your career?