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Europlat Employability Survey: Core findings and implications
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| Year of publication | 2012 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | Paper presents the core findings of the Europlat employability survey focusing on employability issues related to the post-Bologna transformations of psychology study programmes across the European Union. The objectives of the survey were to find out: (1) how relevant the employability/employment issue is; (2) what the current problems are in the employability/employment area; and (3) to explore the best practices in dealing with employability/employment issues. Findings cover both the national context of employability and institution-level issues and practices related to the employability of psychology bachelors and partially masters as well. The survey focused especially at senior academics teaching psychology in bachelor and master study programmes. Seeds of the snowball procedure were the 32 Europlat project partners from different psychology departments and the 52 associated Europlat partners (psychology departments and psychological societies). The total number of valid responses is 228 coming from 32 countries and almost a hundred universities. Most of the responses came from teachers or teacher-researchers, teacher-practitioners. Answers imply that employability is currently not an issue at many departments which is probably the reason of relatively high proportion of “do not know” answers or vague/general answers to open questions. Nevertheless, it seems that the issue of employability is of rising importance and probably will be even more important in a future: due to the increased numbers of bachelor graduates who will not continue to study master‘s degree. The positive message is that bachelors seem to have much to offer. The most valued competencies were research and statistics, communication and interpersonal skills, critical thinking and testing (assessment) or more general skills such as writing skills and presentation skills, ability to solve problems, ability to work or lead a small team, being non-judgmental or good command of English. |
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