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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
DOI 10.1080/1360080x.2019.1646378
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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
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
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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