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SES G 06, Paper Session
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Abstract:
Due to high unemployment rate caused by the recent economic changes, university students graduating in 2009, who are facing the challenges of entering the labour market, are in a difficult situation. Having a university degree does not necessarily guarantee success in the job market because of the expansion of higher education and the rapidly changing nature of the labour market.
Graduating university students have to accommodate to these growing expectations, which necessitates that - apart from their higher educational studies - they have to obtain practical experience, as well as certain qualifications and competences that may partly be obtained during practical learning and partly at the institutions of adult education.
Therefore, in the research we focus on the latter: The Impact of Tertiary Education on Regional Development (TERD). The leader of the TERD research is professor emeritus Tamas Kozma. (Please visit: http://terd.unideb.hu/en/ )
We examined BA/BSc students, who participated in adult education besides their higher educational studies. Our aim was to map the different kinds of knowledge and skills that are required by BA/BSc students but are not provided by higher education. At the same time we intended to find out which are the special areas of adult education that students most often choose on in the hope of becoming successful in the labour market. The research was carried out among 1,361 students, who studied at Hungary’s, Romania’s and the Ukraine’s Hungarian-speaking tertiary educational institutions, which places the research in a European perspective. Yet, we are focusing particularly on Hungary’s tertiary education institutions.
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