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dc.contributor.authorBennett, Dawn
dc.date.accessioned2019-07-11T11:30:19Z
dc.date.available2019-07-11T11:30:19Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.identifier.citationBennett, D. 2019. Graduate employability and higher education: Past, present and future. HERDSA Review of Higher Education. 5: pp. 31-61.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/75996
dc.description.abstract

The question of how to prepare higher education students for employment is at the forefront of higher education, yet in many respects it is the wrong question. This review article poses an alternative question: how might we prepare higher education students to navigate an increasingly complex world and labour market in which they will need to think for a living? I begin by considering the labour market environment into which graduates transition. I align this with contemporary definitions of employability before revisiting my employability and related research undertaken over the past 20 years. In voicing possible solutions, I structure the article’s latter sections according to the four challenges posed by the Australian Deputy Vice-Chancellors for response in the 2019 HERD Review: namely, university funding; commitment to change by university staff; dealing with complexity; and building capacity.

dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherHERDSA
dc.relation.urihttp://www.herdsa.org.au/herdsa-review-higher-education-vol-5/31-61
dc.subjectGraduate outcomes
dc.subjectEmployability
dc.subjectHigher education
dc.subjectGraduate attributes
dc.subjectPost-secondary education
dc.subjectCareer development learning
dc.subjectAcademic workforce
dc.subjectGraduate employment
dc.titleGraduate employability and higher education: Past, present and future
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.volume5
dcterms.source.startPage31
dcterms.source.endPage61
dcterms.source.titleHERDSA Review of Higher Education
dc.date.updated2019-07-11T11:30:19Z
curtin.departmentSchool of Education
curtin.accessStatusOpen access via publisher
curtin.facultyFaculty of Humanities
curtin.contributor.orcidBennett, Dawn [0000-0002-0676-1623]
curtin.contributor.researcheridBennett, Dawn [A-7210-2009]
curtin.contributor.scopusauthoridBennett, Dawn [55574191781]


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