4th Industrial Revolution: Skills Sets for Employability of Business Graduates in Bangladesh

University-Industry Collaboration (UIC) for Developing Highly Skilled and Productive Business Graduates in Bangladesh

University-Industry Collaboration (UIC) creates highly skilled and productive business graduates for meeting demand of industry, globalization, knowledge economy, and job market at home and abroad. In coping with ongoing acute competitive pressures of the information edge, higher education curricula of business needs to be intellectually planned, through collaboration between university and ind...

Admission Conditions and Graduates’ Employability

Admission Conditions and Graduates’ Employability We evaluate the information content of admission conditions for study programs’ quality by investigating its relationship with graduates’ employability. We find that study programs with larger numeri clausi are associated with a higher probability of finding a job. Additionally, compulsory admission exams seem to be informative about study progr...

Determination of Employability skills of Academic Graduates with Exploratory Mixed Method Approach

This paper reports  employability skills determination using exploratory blended method from the viewpoint of the experts of higher education, graduates, the workforce and experts in the field of employability .Sampling method in the qualitative section was purposeful and theoretical sampling. The qualitative data collection was carried out through in-depth interviews and constant comparison of...

The Skills of the Unskilled in the American Industrial Revolution

Were ordinary factory workers unskilled and was technology “de-skilling” during the Industrial Revolution? I measure foregone output to estimate the human capital investments in mule spinners and power loom tenders in ante-bellum Lowell. These investments rivaled those of craft apprentices. Although factory workers were unskilled in a sense, the implementation of this technology depended on the...

Enhancing the Learning and Employability of Graduates: the Role of Generic Skills