Higher Education Research and Development

Skill Development
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Article 1 Jackson, Denise. "Business graduate employability – where are we going wrong?"
Higher Education Research and Development, 2013: 776-790.
This article explores the lack of technical skills in new business graduates it adverse impacts on
organizational productivity and performance along with global competitiveness. These gaps are
continually increasing with global competitiveness in the business environment. Although,
business schools are pouring all hard efforts into developing non-technical background people
and they also developing employability in this field. However the education system and more
specifically business schools ignoring or paying less attention to measure the skill outcomes and
placing to business graduates at an adequate workplace. This ignorance of business school
towards employment placement of new business graduates gives a sense that these business
schools and stakeholders assume that graduate people will automatically place in employment,
irrespective of the role of learning programs and leaners skills and characteristics. But this
negligence of stakeholders towards the employment placement of learners is impacting on
graduate employability. This research article highlights and finds out the employment placement
concepts. This article suggests that stakeholders need to develop strategies, attitudinal change
and systematic measurement of outcomes of non-technical skills in education, organization, and
work settings. Furthermore, this study recommended that stakeholders need to develop skills in
undergraduate students to accomplish employment goals.
Additionally, this article also explores that business organizations and employers need to accept
mastery of skills in students provided by the educational organization and consider that skills can
be enhanced through various learning and training programs (Jackson 2013).
Article: 2 Tymon, Alex. "The student perspective on employability." Studies in Higher
Education, 2013 : 841-856 .
This article also discussed growing concern towards education curriculum and issues with
graduate employability with focusing on the engagement of undergraduate people in skills
development concepts. This research shows that there is a sheer lack of employability definition
and unclear concept regarding the employability. This research observes that students presume
short-term means about employability and instudnets terms finding a job is employment. But for

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the researcher employment means employability with maintaining longer-term quality in
employment.
The most common skills as per studies are team working, information technology,
communication, organizing, and planning. Besides, this study found hardworking, adaptability,
flexibility, commitment, and dedication as personal attributes.
This study also says that not only the universities but another stakeholder including students are
merely interested in the skill development curriculum. Besides, unclear and ambiguous
contribution of skills and attributes in daily practices which results in ignorance towards higher
education institutions in skill development. Also, the ability of higher education institutions in
employability generation and development is suspicious.
It is also found the curriculum in which embedded skills lead demotivation in the first and
second years students and increase less engaement in skill development activities. Thus, to
improve in this area higher education institutions need to increase awareness of employability
and communicating benefits of students' engagement for skill development (Tymon 2013 ).
Article: 3 Subramanian, Ramaiyer, Kalpathy. " Higher Education And Employability
Skills." International Journal of Combined Research & Development, 2017: 711-721.
This research article identified that in the competitive job environment there are critical gaps lies.
In the job market soft skills are much required for the job. This study revealed that ability,
experiences, competencies, and knowledge which can be filled by learning, training and working
experience. Similar to other research studies this study also states and identified the lack of
education system in developing skills in students and graduates. This examines that the higher
education system is not able to develop the required skills set in students and which is
unfortunate for the education system and business world throughout the globe.
Thus, to fill these gaps and develop a skillset in business graduates several business
organizations are struggling and spending high amounts in learning and training programs
especially in business graduates as a new recruited employees. Most of the business
organizations need soft skills and nontechnical skills such as proficiency in languages especially
English languages for internal and external business communication. Apart from communication

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and languages business organizations also need a team working, self-management, self-learning,
planning and organizing as transferable skills. Although full-time employment is a governmental
objective and organizations also need some skills at entry-level at the time of recruitment to
ensure their ability for further learning (Subramanian 2017).
Article: 4 Boahin, Peter. "The changing nature of work and employability skills
development in higher education institutions in Ghana." European Journal of Educational
and Development Psychology, 2018: 21-32
This research article defined employability on the competence-based dimensions and based
higher workplace learning and education institution context. This research paper gives an insight
into the employability aspect and compares it with learning.
An integrated overview of competence-based dimensions in defining employability responds to
calls for more integrated approaches to studying employability. It has been echoed in both the
higher education and the workplace learning context contrasted insights of higher education and
workplace learning from European literature perspectives. This study says that some huge gaps
and differences lie in focus and terminology however there are many overlaps also found out in
the literature.
Education and working organizations both agree that general skills and disciplinary knowledge
are much needed to perform an offered task or job, but social skills and networking skills also
imperative for adaptability for changes and continue learning. Similarly, meta-cognitive skills are
also required to reflect an individual’s goals, ambitions, identify and values. this research article
also advocates that both learnings are essential for employees as higher education institutions to
develop emotional regulation whereas workplace learning gives an ability to achieve a healthy
work-life balance (Boahin 2018).
Article: 5 Matsouka, Kyriaki, and Dimitrios Mihail. "Graduates’ employability: What do
graduates and employers think?" Industry and Higher Education, 2016: 321-326.
This research article examines the views of human resources managers of business organizations
and university graduates with the relevance of soft skills in the labor market and employability.

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This research article also defines soft skills as personal attributes that enhance and improve a
person’s social interactions, career prospects, and job performance. This article advocates that
these are required skills in employees in the labor market with other skills like technical skills,
professional knowledge and understating of tool operations and functioning.
Although, this research revealed significant gaps in the view of HRM managers and business
graduates. The major gaps lie in the views of soft skills such as emotional intelligence,
professionalism, and goal setting. Business graduates perceive and believe that they acquired
these skills form an education course while business managers believe that these students have a
significant lack of leadership and professional skills. Infect, this study finds out that some
educational institution fails to consider to student as future employees and fail to develop
required skills by employers from students. However, views of both graduates and employers
match on academic qualifications the graduate’s students possess (Matsouka and Mihail 2016).

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Bibliography
Boahin, Peter. "THE CHANGING NATURE OF WORK AND EMPLOYABILITY SKILLS
DEVELOPMENT IN HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS IN GHANA." European
Journal of Educational and Development Psychology, 2018: 21-32.
Jackson, Denise. "Business graduate employability – where are we going wrong?" Higher
Education Research and Development, 2013: 776-790.
Matsouka, Kyriaki, and Dimitrios Mihail. "Graduates’ employability: What do graduates and
employers think?" Industry and Higher Education, 2016: 321-326.
Subramanian, Ramaiyer, Kalpathy. " Higher Education And Employability Skills." International
Journal of Combined Research & Development , 2017: 711-721.
Tymon, Alex. "The student perspective on employability." Studies in Higher Education, 2013 :
841-856 .