Graduate employability and graduateness: an overview of concepts, interpretations and emerging issues
This paper discusses the concept of employability by providing its various definitions and explicating graduate employability issues in Malaysia. Instead of contextualising the concept merely to the employment market, this paper attempts to present a framework which also emphasises the needs of soci...
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| author | Abdul Rahman, Shukran Shuib, Munir |
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| description | This paper discusses the concept of employability by providing its various definitions and explicating graduate employability issues in Malaysia. Instead of contextualising the concept merely to the employment market, this paper attempts to present a framework which also emphasises the needs of society when describing the quality of desirable graduates. This paper then discusses an alternative concept of graduate quality, referred to as graduateness which entails comprehensive attributes of graduates. The paper also discusses a number of initiatives to enhance employability. |
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| spelling | iium-813792020-10-21T02:33:52Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/81379/ Graduate employability and graduateness: an overview of concepts, interpretations and emerging issues Abdul Rahman, Shukran Shuib, Munir BF Psychology LB Theory and practice of education LB2300 Higher Education LC Special aspects of education This paper discusses the concept of employability by providing its various definitions and explicating graduate employability issues in Malaysia. Instead of contextualising the concept merely to the employment market, this paper attempts to present a framework which also emphasises the needs of society when describing the quality of desirable graduates. This paper then discusses an alternative concept of graduate quality, referred to as graduateness which entails comprehensive attributes of graduates. The paper also discusses a number of initiatives to enhance employability. 2011-10 Proceeding Paper PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/81379/1/81379_Graduate%20Employability%20and%20Graduateness_new.pdf Abdul Rahman, Shukran and Shuib, Munir (2011) Graduate employability and graduateness: an overview of concepts, interpretations and emerging issues. In: "2nd International Conference on Humanities, Historical and Social Sciences, (CHHSS 2011)", 21-23 October 2011, Cairo. (Unpublished) |
| spellingShingle | BF Psychology LB Theory and practice of education LB2300 Higher Education LC Special aspects of education Abdul Rahman, Shukran Shuib, Munir Graduate employability and graduateness: an overview of concepts, interpretations and emerging issues |
| title | Graduate employability and graduateness: an overview of concepts, interpretations and emerging issues |
| title_full | Graduate employability and graduateness: an overview of concepts, interpretations and emerging issues |
| title_fullStr | Graduate employability and graduateness: an overview of concepts, interpretations and emerging issues |
| title_full_unstemmed | Graduate employability and graduateness: an overview of concepts, interpretations and emerging issues |
| title_short | Graduate employability and graduateness: an overview of concepts, interpretations and emerging issues |
| title_sort | graduate employability and graduateness: an overview of concepts, interpretations and emerging issues |
| topic | BF Psychology LB Theory and practice of education LB2300 Higher Education LC Special aspects of education |
| url | http://irep.iium.edu.my/81379/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/81379/1/81379_Graduate%20Employability%20and%20Graduateness_new.pdf |