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Academics' diversification enhancing graduate employability through the scholarship of teaching and learning
Faizah A. Majid1.
Current debates on higher education graduates seem to address graduates’
quality and their employability. Since industries’ role as future employers
become central in the preparation of graduates, issues on graduate
employability (GE) have become one of the heated discussion topics with
the inclusion of smart partnerships and collaborations between higher
education institutes and industries. As students generally spend between
three and five years in higher education institutes prior to graduating,
students’ graduate employability relies quite heavily on the preparation
for the world of work during their time in the institutions. The Ministry of
Higher Education has called for academics to collaborate with the industries
as a measure to enhance GE. Needless to say, academics’ diversification
has always directed them to be multi-taskers. Four main professional
tracks inevitable amongst the academics namely; teaching, research (and
publication), community service and academic leadership have made the
academic profession a diversed one. While this is easy to comprehend,
the task to establish and maintain linkages with industries in enhancing
GE remains an issue yet to be championed by the academics who are
already swamped by various academic tasks, let alone collaborating with
the industries to specifically promote graduate employability. This paper
examines the issues of graduate employability alongside the diversed tasks
of the academics. Based on Boyer’s scholarship of teaching and learning
(SOTL), this paper aims to address how GE could be enhanced amidst the
academics’ diversification. The proposed framework is hoped to pave the way forward for the academics to play their parts in enhancing GE amidst
their diversification in order to achieve the Ministry of Higher Education
aspiration of ‘soaring upwards’.
Affiliation:
- Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia
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