Soft skills as key competences for successful employability of graduate students

‘Students-as-partners’ scheme enhances postgraduate students’ employability skills while addressing gaps in bioinformatics education

Teaching bioinformatics is a longstanding challenge for educators who need to demonstrate to students how skills developed in the classroom may be applied to real world research. This study employed an action research methodology which utilised student-staff partnership and peer-learning. It was centred on the experiences of peer-facilitators, students who had previously taken a postgraduate bi...

Graduate Employability in Asia

E-Skills, Competitiveness and Employability

In Europe in particular, the so-called Lisbon Strategy has enhanced efforts to mobilize active economic and social forces around education, innovation and knowledge intensive sectors and activities such as information and communications technologies. At the same time, European institutions and national governments have pursued their efforts to deepen and strengthen a European social model where...

Active Learning and the Development of Employability Skills for Apparel Students

In a globalised environment there is high competition as well as significant opportunities. It is essential that university graduates are industry ready, equipped with the necessary professional and technical skills. This study investigates the relationship between active learning strategies and the development of employability skills within apparel. The curriculum development encompasses a var...

Students, Knowledge and Employability

Citizens are increasingly are provided with choice and customization in public services and this has now also become a key feature of higher education in terms of policy roll-outs on personal development planning (PDP) and more generally as part of the employability agenda. The goal here is to transform people, in this case graduates, into active, responsible citizen-workers. A key part of this...