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Graduate employability and graduateness: an overview of concepts, interpretations and emerging issues

This paper discusses the concept of employability by providing its various definitions and explicating graduate employability issues in Malaysia. Instead of contextualising the concept merely to the employment market, this paper attempts to present a framework which also emphasises the needs of soci...

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Main Authors: Abdul Rahman, Shukran, Shuib, Munir
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2011
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BF Psychology
LB Theory and practice of education
LB2300 Higher Education
LC Special aspects of education
Online Access:http://irep.iium.edu.my/81379/1/81379_Graduate%20Employability%20and%20Graduateness_new.pdf
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spelling my.iium.irep.813792020-10-21T02:33:52Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/81379/ Graduate employability and graduateness: an overview of concepts, interpretations and emerging issues Abdul Rahman, Shukran Shuib, Munir BF Psychology LB Theory and practice of education LB2300 Higher Education LC Special aspects of education This paper discusses the concept of employability by providing its various definitions and explicating graduate employability issues in Malaysia. Instead of contextualising the concept merely to the employment market, this paper attempts to present a framework which also emphasises the needs of society when describing the quality of desirable graduates. This paper then discusses an alternative concept of graduate quality, referred to as graduateness which entails comprehensive attributes of graduates. The paper also discusses a number of initiatives to enhance employability. 2011-10 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/81379/1/81379_Graduate%20Employability%20and%20Graduateness_new.pdf Abdul Rahman, Shukran and Shuib, Munir (2011) Graduate employability and graduateness: an overview of concepts, interpretations and emerging issues. In: "2nd International Conference on Humanities, Historical and Social Sciences, (CHHSS 2011)", 21-23 October 2011, Cairo. (Unpublished)
institution Universiti Islam Antarabangsa Malaysia
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topic BF Psychology
LB Theory and practice of education
LB2300 Higher Education
LC Special aspects of education
spellingShingle BF Psychology
LB Theory and practice of education
LB2300 Higher Education
LC Special aspects of education
Abdul Rahman, Shukran
Shuib, Munir
Graduate employability and graduateness: an overview of concepts, interpretations and emerging issues
description This paper discusses the concept of employability by providing its various definitions and explicating graduate employability issues in Malaysia. Instead of contextualising the concept merely to the employment market, this paper attempts to present a framework which also emphasises the needs of society when describing the quality of desirable graduates. This paper then discusses an alternative concept of graduate quality, referred to as graduateness which entails comprehensive attributes of graduates. The paper also discusses a number of initiatives to enhance employability.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Abdul Rahman, Shukran
Shuib, Munir
author_facet Abdul Rahman, Shukran
Shuib, Munir
author_sort Abdul Rahman, Shukran
title Graduate employability and graduateness: an overview of concepts, interpretations and emerging issues
title_short Graduate employability and graduateness: an overview of concepts, interpretations and emerging issues
title_full Graduate employability and graduateness: an overview of concepts, interpretations and emerging issues
title_fullStr Graduate employability and graduateness: an overview of concepts, interpretations and emerging issues
title_full_unstemmed Graduate employability and graduateness: an overview of concepts, interpretations and emerging issues
title_sort graduate employability and graduateness: an overview of concepts, interpretations and emerging issues
publishDate 2011
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/81379/1/81379_Graduate%20Employability%20and%20Graduateness_new.pdf
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