Employability and Good Learning in Higher Education

By P. Knight, Mantz Yorke *. 2003

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A systematic review of current understandings of employability (2016, background): “In addition to references around adaptability, self-efficacy (Dacre-Pool and Sewell 2007; Knight and Yorke 2003), openness (Bridgstock 2009) and ambition (Hogan, Chamorro-Premuzic, and Kaiser 2013) have also been discussed in relation to conceptualisations of employability.”
The graduate attributes we’ve overlooked: enhancing graduate employability through career management skills (2009, background): “At least as much as indicating a graduate’s ability to obtain and maintain work, these statistics tend to indicate information about the short-term graduate employment market in a particular region (Coleman & Keep, 2001; Knight & Yorke, 2003b) or for a particular occupational grouping.”
Key Competencies of Tourism Graduates: The Employers' Point of View (2009, background): “There have been many attempts to “pin down” employability skills and competencies, and the discussion has also been shaped by the shortcomings and limitations these functional lists might have as they always include an element of choice (Knight & Yorke, 2003).”
Students’ perceptions of their preparedness for transition to work after graduation (2018, background): “Furthermore, taking into account that current conceptualizations refer to the ability to engage in ‘good learning’, which, according to Knight and Yorke (2003), depends on the quality of students’ general approaches and beliefs, and to the necessity to foster proactive attitudes that enable…”
Fostering Graduate Employability: Rethinking Tanzania’s University Practices (2021, background): “Some have suggested a framework that emphasizes the role of HE in fostering the employability of graduates (Knight & Yorke, 2003).”
What does ‘quality’ in higher education mean? Perceptions of staff, students and employers (2019, background): “Provision of careers advice is one part of enhancing student employability (Knight and Yorke, 2003).”
Complex skills and academic writing: a review of evidence about the types of learning required to meet core assessment criteria (2006, background): “... skills and attitudes; the coordination of qualitatively different constituent skills; and the transfer of what is learnt to daily life or work settings’ (van Merrienboer et al., 2003, p. 5). It is distinct from learning generic skills and taking deep approaches to learning in that academic learn”