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Employability at the Bologna studies – perception of students and teachers from the university of Rijeka

After five years of implementation of study programmes reformed on the basis of the Bologna declaration and the implementation of extensive reforms the question of the quality of implemented changes at the University of Rijeka come out. In order to establish results after first five years of the Bologna reform extensive research was carried out by the Quality Assurance board of the University of Rijeka in the cooperation with QA units at university constitutes. In this paper the results of a comprehensive study of implementation of Bologna reforms at the University of Rijeka, which applies exactly to the aspect of "employability", are presented. The results of survey of teachers and students of the University of Rijeka indicate their perceptions of employability of students at the reformed studies. The study was conducted over 3984 students and 768 employees. The sample represents 35% of students enrolled in academic year 2009/2010 at the University, and majority of employed teaching staff of all categories. In the research of the Bologna Process employability has been analyzed in several aspects, such is the representation of professional practice within the curricula, perceptions of students and teachers on student preparation for the labour market, ect. Research results indicate that there is the need for certain actions that should contribute to the employability of bachelors and to development of necessary labor market competences of graduate students. The biggest problem, reported in all segments of the research is recognition of bachelors at the labor market. Recognition of bachelors is connected with the definition of their labor market oriented competencies and that is another complex issue that has to be concern in near future.

Employability; Bologna studies

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