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Prof. Dr. Ulrich Teichler

Changes in the Relationships Between Higher Education and the World of Work on the Way Towards the European Higher Education Area. Prof. Dr. Ulrich Teichler Keynote speech at the EUA Conference “University and Society: Engaging Stakeholders”, Marseille, 1-3 April 2004. „Employability“.

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Prof. Dr. Ulrich Teichler

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  1. Changes in the Relationships Between Higher Education and the World of Work on the Way Towards the European Higher Education Area Prof. Dr. Ulrich Teichler Keynote speech at the EUA Conference “University and Society: Engaging Stakeholders”, Marseille, 1-3 April 2004

  2. „Employability“ • A core theme • A highly relevant theme • An add-on theme of the Bologna Process? Teichler, Higher Education and the World of Work

  3. Employment and Work Dimensions of the Bologna Process • Professional relevance of the Bachelor • Emphasis on levels, not types of programmes • Counteract steep hierarchies • Support for professional mobility Teichler, Higher Education and the World of Work

  4. Bologna: A Triangle of Conflicting Objectives Homogeneity Compatibility and Comparability Diversity(horizontal and vertical) Variety(between countriesand cultures) Teichler, Higher Education and the World of Work

  5. Study and Subsequent Employment: Changing Relationship • Compatibility and comparability • Homogeneity • Diversity • Horizontal • Vertical • Variety • Countries • Cultures Teichler, Higher Education and the World of Work

  6. Employability:The Employment Issues • To get a job at all • Job search and recruitment • Smooth transition • Employment success • Competence of managing one’s own career Teichler, Higher Education and the World of Work

  7. EmployabilityThe Work Issues • Match between field of study and occupation • The complex link between study and work assignment • The demand: transfer skills, work attitudes, values, social skills etc. Teichler, Higher Education and the World of Work

  8. EmployabilityThe Misleading Term • To many issues addressed • To often: just getting a job • Emphasis only on the „exchange value“ • Biased critique of higher education Instead: „The professional relevance“? Teichler, Higher Education and the World of Work

  9. Curricula and Professions in Europe • Persistent variety amidst structural convergence of study programmes? • Or convergence of substance as consequence of structural convergence? Teichler, Higher Education and the World of Work

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