Acquisition, Role and Value of Higher Education Competencies

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Acquisition, Role and Value of Higher Education
Competencies

• Christoph Meng
• Research Centre for Education and the Labour
  Market
• Maastricht University

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Agenda

• Competencies Concept
• Recent Surveys
• Academic or Discipline-specific
• Required Competencies
• Acquired Competencies
• Role and Value of Competencies
• Acquisition of Competencies
• Concluding Remarks

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Competencies

• Distinction between competency and skill
• Group of skills
• Referring to a single underlying dimension
• Condition to fulfill complex tasks

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Recent Surveys

• CHEERS
• 3 years after graduation
• Survey in 1998/1999
• European countries Japan
• REFLEX
• 5 years after graduation
• Survey in 2005/2006
• European countries Japan

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Competencies

• Discipline-specific
• Theoretical knowledge
• Knowledge of methods

• Academic
• Learning abilities
• Reflective thinking
• Problem-solving
• Analytical
• Documenting

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Requirements
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Requirements
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Requirements
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Requirements
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Competencies Requirements and ILM versus OLM
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Competencies Requirements and ILM versus OLM
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Acquisition
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Acquisition
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Acquisition
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Competencies Acquisition and ILM versus OLM
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Role of Competencies

• OLM countries
• Allocation Discipline-specific competencies
• Training Academic competencies
• Wage Mismatch in discipline-specific
  competencies
• ILM countries
• Allocation no effect
• Training Academic competencies
• Wage Mismatch in academic competencies (UK)

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Acquisition
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Acquisition
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Acquisition
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Concluding remarks

• Institutional setting
• Competencies requirements
• Orientation of acquisition of competencies
• Role of competencies in transition to labor
  market
• Acquisition of competencies
• Role of learning environment

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• The Bachelor/Master system provides HE institutes
  in the NL and the UK with the same wrapping
  paper.

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• The Bachelor/Master system provides HE institutes
  in the NL and the UK with the same wrapping
  paper. However, when the Dutch employees open
  their present, they will realize that Sinterklaas
  (5th of dec.) still shops in a different place
  than Santa Claus (24th of dec.)