Professional and vocational courses requiring 5 years’ post-secondary study are supposed to meet specific needs for competences in a given area of employment. Young graduates believe they have acquired the specific competences they think their employers require. In their view, the shortfall lies in their general competences. Is this a reason to question the increasingly vocational nature of university courses? 

Training & Employment – n°118

Do young graduates with professional and vocational master’s degrees regard themselves as competent to hold their jobs?

Authors : Julien Calmand and Jean-François Giret and Philippe Lemistre and Boris Ménard

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