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dc.contributor.authorJackson, Denise
dc.contributor.authorBridgstock, Ruth
dc.date.accessioned2019-09-24T03:58:25Z
dc.date.available2019-09-24T03:58:25Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.identifier.issn1360-080X
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/1360080X.2019.1652403
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/387708
dc.description.abstractWelcome to this Special Issue, the fifth issue for 2019, which focuses on employability and employment outcomes as drivers of higher education practice. Your guest editors are Associate Professor Denise Jackson from Edith Cowan University, and Professor Ruth Bridgstock from Griffith University. The return on investment of higher education is attracting increasing scrutiny in the context of rising fees, mass student participation, and a perceived oversupply of non-employment ready graduates. Some have argued that the strategic directive of developing student employability in a bid to improve (often short-term and narrowly-focused) employment outcomes devalues higher education learning. For others, it may provide some assurance that the higher education sector is committed to developing future-capable graduates with skills of relevance to the workforce. Either way, preparedness for work is a critical issue, as graduates transition to an uncertain world of work characterised by digital disruption, intense competition for roles, and precarious working arrangements. To accommodate these trends, the notion of graduate employability has broadened to encompass constructs such as career self-management, professional identity, a collaborative mindset, enterprise and entrepreneurship, cultural capital and social networking capabilities. Developing these dimensions is intended to empower students to achieve their career goals while developing future workers and leaders that can drive innovation and prosperity, as well as make meaningful contributions to community and society.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherRoutledge
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom449
dc.relation.ispartofpageto450
dc.relation.ispartofissue5
dc.relation.ispartofjournalJournal of Higher Education Policy and Management
dc.relation.ispartofvolume41
dc.subject.fieldofresearchEducation systems
dc.subject.fieldofresearchSpecialist studies in education
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPolicy and administration
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode3903
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode3904
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4407
dc.subject.keywordsSocial Sciences
dc.subject.keywordsEducation & Educational Research
dc.titleLetter from the guest editors
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC3 - Articles (Letter/ Note)
dcterms.bibliographicCitationJackson, D; Bridgstock, R, Letter from the guest editors, Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2019, 41 (5), pp. 449-450
dc.date.updated2019-09-24T03:51:12Z
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gro.rights.copyright© 2019 Taylor & Francis (Routledge). This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management on 21 Aug 2019, available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/1360080X.2019.1652403
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