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Strategic institutional approaches to graduate employability: navigating meanings, measurements and what really matters

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Bridgstock, Ruth, Jackson, Denise·2019·Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management

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Despite ongoing efforts by universities, challenges and tensions continue to exist in academic discourse, policy and practice around graduate employability. These factors can militate against the sector’s capacity to prepare learners for life and work, because they promote unclear, and sometimes counterproductive and competing, courses of action. This article suggests that higher education institutions’ approaches to graduate employability reflect at least three aims. The aims relate to: (i) short-term graduate outcomes; (ii) professional readiness; and (iii) living and working productively and meaningfully across the lifespan. The commitment to each of these aims is often tacit and ill-defined and varies within as well as between institutions, and over time. This article attempts to navigate a productive path through the multiple aims and agendas, along with the definitional and measurement challenges, to identify, workable approaches. It suggests some actionable principles to enhance employability that address the tensions between the three employability aims.

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Authors: Bridgstock, R., & Jackson, D.
Affiliations: Griffith University (AU)
Edith Cowan University (AU)
Corresponding author: Jackson, Denise
ORCID: Bridgstock, Ruth
Jackson, Denise
Venue: Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Published: 2019-07-25
Volume: 41
Issue: 5
Pages: 468-484
ISSN: 1360-080X (ISSN-L)
1469-9508
DOI: 10.1080/1360080x.2019.1646378
OpenAlex: W2947482696
Cited by: 146
References: 64
Citations by year: 2026: 18 · 2025: 22 · 2024: 21 · 2023: 38 · 2022: 24 · 2021: 13 · 2020: 10
FWCI: 31.70
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: green
eprints.qut.edu.au
Locations: Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management (publishedVersion)
QUT ePrints (Queensland University of Technology) (submittedVersion)
Australasian Journal of Paramedicine (submittedVersion)
Griffith Research Online (submittedVersion)
Topics: Social Sciences › Education › Higher Education and Employability
Social Sciences › Education › Doctoral Education Challenges and Solutions
Social Sciences › Education › Disability Education and Employment
Keywords: graduate employability, higher education institutions, professional readiness, graduate outcomes, lifelong employability, employability policy

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