Higher Education and Labour Market – Students’ Subjective Theories

The Bologna Process puts forward the quest for employability and forges closer links between the transition into the labour market and students’ lives and the realm of university itself. Students are still confronted with performance requirements from the academic field but at the same time with external demands from the labour market. This makes higher education for students more complex and more challenging. The research project: “Higher Education and the Labour Market: Subjective Theories of Students and Faculty between Employability, Professionalization and Practice” (STEP) investigates this process and the changing demands on students in relation to their later transition into the labour market. This article presents first results of the research project.

10.08.2011 | Mechtild Oechsle & Gudrun Hessler (Bielefeld)