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Global economic realities shouldn’t deter African universities from continuing to push for massification. But they must do so armed with knowledge, lessons from elsewhere and strong funding models.
Don’t just rely on your degree certificate to get a job after university. Work on your employability too.
Confusing short-term jobs with long-term career outcomes is a distraction from the real issues in science higher education.
Young people are pressured into university and many end up in unsuitable courses. We need to recognise these realities and be clear about the purpose of higher education so it doesn’t lose its value.
It depends on what you mean by ‘graduates’.
If robots will take traditional graduate jobs, universities should be training students in borderless leadership skills.
With secure jobs hard to find, it’s easier for people from higher social classes to be in temporary work.
Graduates aren’t all working in coffee shops – they have fuelled growth in top jobs.
As debates rage on whether graduates are ‘over-educated’, researchers have looked at what’s actually happening to their jobs.
Gaining that required qualification to put on your CV is what counts to win a job in today’s “graduate economy”. On current trends, perhaps everyone will have a degree by the end of this century. Already…
An increasing number of high-skilled graduates, rather than technology, could be to blame for a decline in the UK’s mid-paying jobs.
A lifetime of study and preparation are no guarantee of success for PhDs when they hit the job market. Things can and should be improved.
The expansion of higher education in the UK has been driven by a political desire to increase economic growth and to promote social mobility at the same time by drawing more graduates from a larger pool…
It’s that time of year when undergraduates who want to continue their studies are busily looking around for advice on which masters degree to apply for and school leavers are pondering their university…
University is often seen as a route to social mobility, providing the chance for all students to get higher status and better paid jobs no matter what kind of school they went to. But in our new research…
The moment an undergraduate student starts a business degree, their mind is already geared to the job offers they hope will be coming thick and fast upon graduation. Yet there is an ongoing mismatch between…
One criticism of Australian universities is that they indulge in oversupplying graduates in certain fields such as dentistry and journalism. But whose responsibility is it to set enrolment targets which…
With the university summer holidays now in full swing, many second-year students will be gearing up to start their first day at work in September instead of heading back to lectures. Sandwich years – a…
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