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Reclaiming employability: how business students are resisting the devaluation of their labour and degree
Centre for Justice Briefing Paper, Vol.51, pp.1-4
2024
Abstract
In recent years Australian higher education has focussed on developing graduate skills and knowledge for a smooth transition from education to employment. This emphasis on employability has become so deeply entrenched that the value of a degree is now inextricably linked to graduate employment outcomes. However, although employment is a desirable outcome of participation in higher education, the discourse surrounding this proposition has largely placed the burden of becoming employable on students and seen a boom in students engaging in unpaid work experience and other employability-enhancing strategies.This briefing paper provides insights from recent research into business graduates’ perceptions of their own employability, finding that students are aware of the skills and experience they must demonstrate to leverage graduate employment, believe they possess skills and labour of value to the market, and are resistant to expectations of undertaking unpaid work.
Details
- Title
- Reclaiming employability: how business students are resisting the devaluation of their labour and degree
- Authors
- Tanya Weiler (Author) - University of South AustraliaDeanna Grant-Smith - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Business and Creative Industries
- Publication details
- Centre for Justice Briefing Paper, Vol.51, pp.1-4
- Publisher
- Queensland University of Technology, Centre for Justice
- Date published
- 2024
- DOI
- 10.5204/book.eprints.248997
- ISSN
- 2652-5828
- Organisation Unit
- School of Business and Creative Industries
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 991091971502621
- Output Type
- Magazine article
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