期刊名称：Journal of Perspectives in Applied Academic Practice
电子版ISSN：2051-9788
出版年度：2015
卷号：3
期号：2
页码：26-37
DOI：10.14297/jpaap.v3i2.137
出版社：Edinburgh Napier University in collaboration with Aston University, the Universities of Dundee and Auckland
摘要：We examine the role of universities, employers, professional associations and graduates in the development of professional skills of new university graduates, through studying the professional work experiences of recent Australian information technology graduates as a particular case to inform our wider analysis and argument. We argue that the development of professional (or work-ready) skills is a distributed responsibility, and different stakeholders have different contributions to make. Furthermore, this approach will be successful only when each player accepts its responsibilities and cooperates with the others. It is suggested that: universities take responsibility for preparing graduates to learn how to learn in uncertain situations; employers take responsibility for training graduates when they commence work; graduates take personal responsibility for developing their professional skills both within and outside university studies and professional associations take responsibility for increasing students’ exposure to the industry through scholarships, internships, research and job ready programmes. Although the findings are grounded in data collected from new IT graduates, much of the discussion is relevant for other disciplines.
关键词：work-ready graduates; professional skills; graduate work experiences; university preparation and employer expectations
