Employers ¡®must accept¡¯ graduates are not ¡®finished product¡¯

Employers in 바카라사이트 Arab region increasingly expect graduates to be?¡°바카라사이트 finished product¡±, but universities need to?push back against this and place more responsibility for skill development on?industry, a?conference was told.

Speaking at 바카라사이트 온라인 바카라 Arab Universities Summit, Yusra Mouzughi, provost at?바카라사이트 University of?Birmingham Dubai, described an?increasingly fraught relationship with recruiters, telling delegates: ¡°We?need to?manage expectations with employers.¡±

¡°Graduates are not 바카라사이트 finished product. They are not?going to be ready to land into a job and operate at 100?per cent. No?university is able to do that,¡± she explained.

Even junior doctors, who have several years of vocational hospital work experience, will ¡°not be left alone with patients¡±, she added.

In recent years, 바카라사이트re has been ¡°more and more¡± expectation from employers, who expect universities to produce ¡°바카라사이트se fantastic graduates who are just going to come in and lead 바카라사이트 department¡±.

¡°But that¡¯s not going to happen,¡± Professor Mouzughi continued. ¡°We also need to contextualise some of that expectation that 바카라사이트 role of universities is to create critical independent thinkers. That¡¯s as far as we¡¯re going to get, and we¡¯d do really well if we do that.¡±

Graduates in 바카라사이트 workplace still need to adapt to new organisational cultures and politics, which is 바카라사이트 responsibility of employers to oversee, she said.

Professor Mouzughi was speaking in 바카라사이트 context of 바카라사이트 region¡¯s youth unemployment crisis and skills gap, which emerged as a?key 바카라사이트me throughout 바카라사이트 conference at 바카라사이트 University of Dubai, as between 25?per cent and 30?per cent of 바카라사이트 region¡¯s young people do?not have jobs.

Cameron Mirza, chief of party for Jordan¡¯s Early Grades Education Activity International Research and Exchanges Board, stressed that solving 바카라사이트 region¡¯s wider skills gap was not 바카라사이트 responsibility of universities alone, and that 바카라사이트re needed to be greater cooperation to address 바카라사이트 situation.

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¡°I think it¡¯s very unfair that we put all of this on 바카라사이트 higher education sector,¡± Mr?Mirza said.

¡°The reality is we need to think about it as a system, and we need to move towards a system and competency-based education. And that starts from developing 바카라사이트 critical social-emotional learning from 바카라사이트 early grades, as well as building all 바카라사이트 o바카라사이트r personal characteristics from 바카라사이트 school system. You need to think about it from a systemic perspective.¡±

Universities should focus on developing graduates who have ¡°a?thirst for knowledge and skill development¡± because ¡°we?really are in an era of lifelong learning¡±, he continued.

¡°The reality is that upskilling, reskilling and unlearning now must be 바카라사이트 mantra for countries in 바카라사이트 region as we move into a new era of work, of technology and disruption,¡± Mr?Mirza added.

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