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The collaboration of higher education with the business: The barriers to employ...
Suleman, F.; Suleman, A.We examine employers’ perception of the collaboration of higher education (HE) with business and the barriers to employers’ engagement. A sample of 162 employers from Portugal filled an original survey, in 2020, designed to examine the relationship between HE and the world of work. The employers differ in the perception of the collaboration of HE with business, and this is reflected in their engagement. Some em...
Employability skills and jobs for graduates: Learning from job advertisements
Suleman, F.; Suleman, A.; Cunha, F. M.We use 2812 online job advertisements from 21 European countries to identify attributes demanded by employers and explore economic and labour market characteristics associated with the set of required skills. Whereas some employers clearly target ready-to-work candidates for high skilled occupations, others do not even specify skill requirements. The latter are from countries that are moderate or modest innovat...
Mercado de trabalho e bem-estar após a grande recessão: Dificuldades e desafios...
Suleman, F.; Barradas, R.Este capítulo procura evidenciar fenómenos persistentes no mercado de trabalho de jovens e o modo como esses problemas afetam diversas dimensões da vida pessoal dos jovens em Portugal. É sabido que o emprego jovem é fortemente afetado pelas condições económicas e as épocas recessivas tendem a ter maiores impactos na transição dos jovens para o mercado de trabalho (Kahn, 2010). As consequências da designada Gran...
Pluriatividade enquanto resposta dos jovens à vulnerabilidade no mercado de tra...
Barradas, R.; Suleman, F.Neste capítulo, pretendemos caracterizar os jovens que detêm mais do que um emprego e analisar os determinantes da pluriatividade em Portugal. O tema não foi ainda devidamente tratado como objeto de estudo, por isso esta pesquisa representa o primeiro trabalho focado exclusivamente no caso dos jovens portugueses, para o qual a evidência empírica é relativamente inexistente. Portugal representa um caso de estudo...
Introduction: The complex transition of higher education graduates into the lab...
Suleman, F.; Videira, P.; Teixeira, P.In recent decades, countries worldwide have experienced a significant expansion of higher education, albeit at different paces. This has led to a rapidly increasing supply of the skilled workforce. There are strong economic and social arguments behind the expansion of higher education as a driver of economic growth and for providing positive effects for individuals, firms, and society as a whole. However, some ...
Tackling regional skill shortages: From single employer strategies to local par...
Suleman, F.; Videira, P.; Araújo, E. R.This research examines regional skill problems and the strategies adopted to reduce skill shortages by a set of employers (n = 16). The data collected in 2019 in a northern region in Portugal indicate considerable and persistent shortages of engineering and IT graduates and non-graduates for operational jobs. The employers implement anticipative strategies interacting with the education system, and the city cou...
Employers’ perception of the role of higher education in Portugal: The varying ...
Suleman, F.; Suleman, A.Higher education is under great pressure to provide skills that smooth graduates’ transition into the labour market, prepare them for the world of work and, ultimately, contribute to their employability. This supply-side perspective does not, per se, reflect employers’ view of the mission of higher education. Our research provides empirical evidence on how employers in Portugal perceive the role of higher educa...
A massificação do ensino superior: novas missões e novos desafios
Suleman, F.Este trabalho incide sobre as motivações económicas e não económicas relacionadas com a expansão do ensino superior. A literatura analisada indica que o ensino superior tem duas grandes missões. A primeira parte da teoria do capital humano e reconhece o papel do ensino superior para preparar mão-de-obra qualificada e resolver problemas de competências das organizações. Na mesma linha de preparação dos indivíduo...
New research and trends in higher education
Sousa, M.; Suleman, F.; Melé, P. M.; Gómez, J. M.New methodologies, contexts, and technologies are generating a lot of interest in the field of higher education, and this Special Issue intends to address the current research and trends in all dimensions of higher education. It will serve as a global focal point for the examination and reporting of a wide range of issues affecting higher education learning processes: innovations in learning, new pedagogical me...
Higher education and employability skills: barriers and facilitators of employe...
Suleman, F.; Videira, P.; Araújo, E.This research examines the barriers and facilitators to employers’ engagement with higher education institutions. The data were collected through interviews with a set of employers (n = 19) in the Northern region of Portugal, V.N.de Famalicão, in 2019. We begin by exploring employers’ engagement activities as a potential solution to address local-level skill problems. Empirical evidence suggests that the engage...