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Graduate Employability Agenda in Global Higher Education: Are We Moving in the Same Direction?

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Graduate Employability Across Contexts

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This chapter describes the need to develop employability for students so that they can best cope with changes in the current economic climate and employment market. It also highlights the tension in the employability agenda in the higher education sector due to different perspectives among stakeholders, institutional priorities, and availability of resources. It argues that personal and contextual factors heavily influence the adoption of and the effectiveness of implementing employability initiatives; thus, it is necessary to investigate how graduate employability is viewed, developed, and translated into employment outcomes and career development in different contexts. Finally, the chapter introduces the main contents to facilitate readers’ follow of the book project.

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Lu, V.N., Nghia, T.L.H., Bui, B.C., Singh, J.K.N. (2022). Graduate Employability Agenda in Global Higher Education: Are We Moving in the Same Direction?. In: Nghia, T.L.H., Bui, B.C., Singh, J.K.N., Lu, V.N. (eds) Graduate Employability Across Contexts. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-3959-4_1

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