Please mind the gap : En kvalitativ studie om studievägledarens syn på relevansproblematiken inom högre utbildning

• Main Author: Jansson, Ida
• Format: Others
• Language: Swedish
• Published: Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för pedagogik, didaktik och utbildningsstudier 2019
• Subjects: Competence; learning; employability; theory and practice; higher education; labor market; work-related; Pedagogy; Pedagogik
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-397182

A current topic that is being discussed in education is the opportunity to work after graduation. The thesis strives to investigate what kind of competence is being created in higher education in order to determine the employability of the student and to clarify what educational support that is available. The study was conducted through semi-structured interviews with seven student counselors who shared their views on the correlation between education and the labor market in order to explore how to work with employability. The result shows that there is a lack of work-related learning in higher education that increases the gap between education and the labor market. The student indicates stress and anxiety about the future of the labor market and feels lost in what the education generates for type of competence. To avoid this problem, information about the skills that the labor market is demanding should be implemented in education and the opportunity to assign internships in the general programs.