Work placement reflective assessments and employability enhanced through highlighting graduate attributes.

Graduate Employability in Asia

Employability and Work Adjustment of Epileptic Patients

Employability and work adjustment of all the 116 adult epileptics patients of Agra District who had attended the out-patient department of Agra Mental Hospital during a period of 3 years was studied through a follow-up investigation. 32.76% patients were found to be unemployed and among the gainfully employed patients and housewives 44.6% had satisfactory work adjustment, 32.4% had slight impai...

Rethinking Generic Graduate Attributes

The issue of Generic Skills has received considerable attention over recent years as universities seek to renew and articulate their purposes and demonstrate the efficient achievement of these, particularly in response to calls for accountability. As an articulation of the core outcomes of higher education as a process (HEC 1992) generic skills (or generic attributes as they are also known) are...

Promoting Employability through Specific Literacies

Literacies VICKY DUCKWORTH Edge Hill University, United Kingdom GORDON ADE-OJO University of Greenwich, United Kingdom This special issue of the International journal of multidisciplinary comparative studies (IJMCS) is drawn from the papers presented at the week-long Research Workshop, run by Literacy Research and Development Centre (LRDC) at the University of Greenwich. The papers were accompa...

The Representation of Social Actors in the Graduate Employability Issue: Online News and the Government Document

This paper presents the first part of a larger study on the issue of graduate employability in Malaysia as construed in public discourse in English, a language of power in Malaysia. The term employability itself has many definitions depending on the requirements of government and industry, and in the case of Malaysia, the English-language ability of graduates is inseparable from graduate employ...