Employable me
Australian higher education and the employability agenda
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4545520 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Peter Baron (0000-0001-8239-2885, Law School, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia), Shashray Mccormack (0000-0002-7339-0463, Education Services, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 257-273 |
| Publication date | 2024-05-03 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1360-080X • E-ISSN: 1469-9508 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/1360080x.2024.2344133 |
| OpenAlex | W4395047938 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 36 |
Few issues have attracted as much policy interest in the tertiary sector as graduate employability.Graduate employability positions universities and their students as key players in the national economy.At the same time, the standard conception of graduate employability, as it has evolved from human capital theory and modified by neoliberal ideology, has met with significant criticism.This paper reports on our analysis of the strategic plans of Australia's 42 operating universities current in 2018 to better understand (1) the extent to which employability was embedded in each university's strategic priorities and (2) the ways in which employability was characterised in those plans.Our paper provides empirical evidence of the way in which Australian universities universally and uniformly adopted a particular model of employability, simultaneously claiming its distinctiveness.Our analysis suggests the need for Australian universities to take a more thoughtful and nuanced approach to graduate employability
Criticism · Economic growth · Economics · Employability · Higher education · Human capital · Ideology · Management · Optimal distinctiveness theory · Pedagogy · Political science · Public relations · Sociology · Higher Education and Employability · Higher Education Practises and Engagement · Human Resource and Talent Management · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology
Work-integrated learning in non-professional degrees
Curriculum approaches to strengthening student employability and improving graduate outcomes in the STM disciplines
From clusters of crises to constellations of hope
Students’ perceptions of learning, work and wellbeing networks in work-integrated learning (WIL)
The definition of educational quality in a quasi-marketised higher education system
Transformational accounts of students’ undergraduate education are evoked by their engagement with knowledge
The Zone of Proximal Employment for sustainable careers
Social Sciences and Humanities’ Employability Culture and Public Policy Challenges
Why Employees Need Entrepreneurship Education Even If Never Start a Business
Work-integrated learning in the humanities, arts and social sciences
The Death of Human Capital?
Research Methods in Education
Children of the market
Graduates' employment and the discourse of employability
Forms of graduate capital and their relationship to graduate employability
Conceptions of the value of higher education in a measured market
How to plan and perform a qualitative study using content analysis
Performativities and fabrications in the education economy
Neoliberal turns in higher education
The impact of employability on Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences degrees in Australia
The Impact of Market-Driven Higher Education on Student-University Relations
Neoliberalism and education
Employability and higher education
Between instrumental and developmental learning
Student perceptions of themselves as ‘consumers’ of higher education
Australian universities in the age of Covid
Performativity, Commodification and Commitment
Neoliberal individualism in Dutch universities
Sacrificial Citizenship
The teacher's soul and the terrors of performativity
Education, opportunity and the prospects for social mobility
Employing discourse
Limitations of human capital theory
Three Approaches to Qualitative Content Analysis
The Psychic Life of Neoliberalism
| Citations per year | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |