Fostering Graduate Employability: Rethinking Tanzania's University Practices

Autor/in	Mgaiwa, Samson John
Titel	Fostering Graduate Employability: Rethinking Tanzania's University Practices
Quelle	In: SAGE Open, 11 (2021) 2, (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Mgaiwa, Samson John)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2158-2440
DOI	10.1177/21582440211006709
Schlagwörter	Employment Potential; Unemployment; College Graduates; Universities; Best Practices; College Role; Education Work Relationship; Partnerships in Education; School Business Relationship; Quality Assurance; Educational Quality; Alignment (Education); Curriculum Development; Educational Research; Developing Nations; Foreign Countries; Tanzania + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Arbeitsmarktbezogene Qualifikation; Beschäftigungsfähigkeit; Arbeitslosigkeit; Hochschulabsolvent; Hochschulabsolventin; University; Universität; Hochschulpartnerschaft; Qualitätssicherung; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Curriculum; Development; Curriculumentwicklung; Lehrplan; Entwicklung; Bildungsforschung; Pädagogische Forschung; Developing country; Developing countries; Entwicklungsland; Ausland; Tansania
Abstract	Globalization, partly spurred by technological innovation such as artificial intelligence and robotics, continues to disrupt not only economic trajectories and business models, especially in the developed world, but also the knowledge and skill requirements for graduates entering the labor market. A growing corpus of literature on graduates' employability has identified barriers to employment ranging from skills mismatch to a lack of soft skills. Although the literature on graduate employability is informative and illuminating, the role of university practices in fostering graduate employability in sub-Saharan Africa, and Tanzania in particular, has been less studied. Drawing on the broader employability literature, this article provides a comprehensive analysis of the best university practices in an effort to address the unemployment problems of university graduates in sub-Saharan Africa and Tanzania in particular. Four critical university best practices for fostering graduate employability are of interest--developing effective university--industry partnerships, aligning university education with a country's development plans, regular university curriculum reviews, and strengthening quality assurance systems. Therefore, this article contributes to the higher education literature on the role of university practices in fostering graduate employability. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01