Does Higher Education Matter? Lessons from a Comparative Graduate Survey

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Understanding the Early Career Benefits of Learning Abroad Programs (2015, background): “Extensive research in Europe has considered the match between graduate attributes, including learning abroad experiences, and employment roles (Brennan et al., 1996; de Weert, 1996; Teichler, 2007), and this approach aligns with the Australian higher education context.”
Graduate Employability: A Review of Conceptual and Empirical Themes (2012, background): “Both policymakers and employers have looked to exert a stronger influence on the HE agenda, particularly around its formal provisions, in order to ensure that graduates leaving HE are fit-for-purpose (Teichler, 1999, 2007; Harvey, 2000).”
Developing social competence and other generic skills in teacher education: applying the model of integrative pedagogy (2016, unknown): “…competence, or so-called people skills, are often mentioned as the most important skills in studies where employers or recently graduated employees are asked about generic attributes needed at work (e.g. Greene and Burleson 2003; Manninen and Hobrough 2000; Teichler 2007; Tynjälä et al. 2006).”
The concept of transition system (2008, background): “This identified different transition patterns and then looked for explanations of distinctive national patterns in terms of ‘certain characteristics of the higher education system or the professional values and the social fabric’ (Teichler 2007, 20).”