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The Mix Of Graduate And Intermediatelevel Skills In Britain: What Should The Balance Be?
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@MISC{National_themix,
author = {Geoff Mason National and Geoff Mason},
title = {The Mix Of Graduate And Intermediatelevel Skills In Britain: What Should The Balance Be?},
year = {}
}
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Abstract
The recent rapid growth in graduate supply in Britain has contributed to a sharp increase in employment of graduates relative to people with intermediate (craft- and technician-level) skills. This substitution process is being driven by changes in demand as well as by supply factors. However, recent evidence of employer difficulties in recruiting graduates suggests that concerns about `quality shortcomings' in some graduate job applicants -- in particular, lack of practical work experience and commercial understanding -- reflect a continuing demand by employers for the skills and knowledge that are most easily acquired through employment-based intermediate skills training. The article considers various ways in which employment-based training could be more closely integrated with higher education courses in order to expand the supply of intermediate skills while still recognising the desire (and ability) of many intermediate-level people to eventually qualify as graduates. 3 1. Introd...
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intermediatelevel skill commercial understanding recent rapid growth education course employer difficulty sharp increase substitution process various way employment-based training many intermediate-level people practical work experience graduate job applicant graduate supply intermediate skill employment-based intermediate skill quality shortcoming supply factor recent evidence
