Effectiveness of University Education in Italy: Employability, Competences, Human Capital

✍ Scribed by Luigi Fabbris

• Publisher: Physica-Verlag HD
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 376
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In this volume – drawn on experience at Italian universities – the authors infer upon the quality of the education achieved by graduates by surveying their transition to work and further professional paths. Papers are presented on the effectiveness of university education, on employability of graduates, with a discussion on considering the employment rate as the main assessment indicator, on competence analysis for backward assessment purposes and finally on university human capital indicators.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 9
Informative Sources for the Evaluation of the University Education Effectiveness in Italy......Page 12
A Fuzzy Measure of Satisfaction for University Education as a Key for Employment......Page 21
A Multilevel Analysis of Graduates' Job Satisfaction......Page 38
Quality Assessment of the University Educational Process: an Application of the ECSI Model......Page 52
Evaluating the University Educational Process. A Robust Approach to the Drop-out Problem......Page 64
A Structural Model of the Employment Pathways of the University of Foggia Graduates......Page 79
Measurement of University External Effectiveness Based on the Use of the Acquired Skills......Page 96
Graduates' Job Quality Dimensions According to a Delphi-Shang Experiment......Page 112
Networks of "Weak" Ties of Padua University Graduates Searching for Employment......Page 129
University Choices and Work Destinies in Italy......Page 146
Accept or Refuse a Job? How Graduates Decide......Page 155
A Multilevel Chain Graph Model for the Analysis of Graduates' Employment......Page 172
Transition from University to the Job Market. A Time Analysis of the University of Cagliari Graduates......Page 185
The Determinants of Graduates' Placement. Analysis of Interactions Using Boolean Logit Models......Page 197
The Transition from University to the Job Market. An Emigration Analysis of the University of Cagliari Graduates......Page 209
University Studies and Employment. An Application of the Principal Strata Approach to Causal Analysis......Page 220
Is the Length of the First Job Search Spell a Valid Measure of External Effectiveness of University Programmes?......Page 233
Competence-based Compatibility between Jobs and University Curricula......Page 247
The Ideal Candidate. Analysis of Professional Competences through Text Mining of Job Offers......Page 260
Companies, Competences and Graduates' Selection Processes: an Attempt to Quantify......Page 275
Tesserae of Graduates' Competences for Mosaics of Work Activities......Page 284
Competences Offered to Statisticians by the Italian Universities and Required by the Job Market......Page 301
Jobs and Competences of Graduates in Statistics......Page 319
Academic Training and Competences Analysis of Social Work......Page 331
Profiling and Labour Market Accessibility for the Graduates in Economics at Naples University......Page 341
Human Capital Growth for University Education Evaluation......Page 353
Estimating University Human Capital through Growth Models......Page 365