“ LABOUR MARKET INSERTION OF THE GALICIAN UNIVERSITY SYSTEM GRADUATES“

Luis Carlos Velón Sixto – Technician in Quality Management

Mª Carmen Fernández Montes - Technician in Programmes (Labour market insertion responsible)

Agency for Quality Assurance in the Galician University System (ACSUG)

24 September 2009

ACSUG presentation

Galician University System (SUG) . Main characteristics

Studies on insertion in the labour market

Why? What for?

Studies on insertion in the labour market: graduates

Methodology

General and specific objectives

Most relevant results

Studies on insertion in the labour market : employers

Methodology

General and specific objectives

Most relevant results

INDEX OF CONTENTS

The Agency for Quality Assurance in the Galician University System (ACSUG) was legally established on 30 January 2001 as a consortium between the Regional Government of Galicia and the three Galician universities.

ACSUG presentation (I)

ACSUG Vision ACSUG aims to be a point of reference in

guaranteeing the quality of the SUG Higher Education institutions, recognised in Galicia, Spain and internationally for its independence, transparency and credibility.

ACSUG Mission The fundamental mission of the Agency for

Quality Assurance in the Galician University System (ACSUG) is to contribute to improving the quality of the Galician University System (SUG). To do so, it takes actions in the area of drafting reports, evaluation, certification and accreditation for the activities conducted by Galician universities, especially related to teaching, research, knowledge transfer and management.

Organizational Chart

ACSUG presentation (II)

CGI ACA

EXPERT ADVISORSCOMMITTEES

ADVI SORY BOARD

PRESI DENT

BOARD OF DI RECTORS

BOARD OF DIRECTORS PERMANENT COMMITTEE

DI RECTOR

MANAGEMENT AND GOVERNING BODIES ASSESSMENT AND CONSULTATIVE BODIES

CABI NET OF DI RECTI ON

TEACHI NG STAFF UNI T PROGRAMMES UNI T MANAGEMENT UNI T

EVALUATION OF TEACHING STAFF

COMPLEMENTARY COMPENSATION

PROGRAMMES ASSESSMENT

TEACHING ACTIVITY EVALUATION

LABOUR INSERTION ANALYSIS

RESEARCH EVALUATION

ECONOMIC MATTERS

HUMAN RESOURCES

COMPUTER SYSTEMS

RECEPTION AND ARCHIVES

QUALITY MANAGEMENT

LEGAL CONSULTANCY

SECRETARY AND EXT. RELATIONSHIP

CGI ACA

EXPERT ADVISORSCOMMITTEES

ADVI SORY BOARD

PRESI DENT

BOARD OF DI RECTORS

BOARD OF DIRECTORS PERMANENT COMMITTEE

DI RECTOR

MANAGEMENT AND GOVERNING BODIES ASSESSMENT AND CONSULTATIVE BODIES

CABI NET OF DI RECTI ON

TEACHI NG STAFF UNI T PROGRAMMES UNI T MANAGEMENT UNI T

EVALUATION OF TEACHING STAFF

COMPLEMENTARY COMPENSATION

PROGRAMMES ASSESSMENT

TEACHING ACTIVITY EVALUATION

LABOUR INSERTION ANALYSIS

RESEARCH EVALUATION

ECONOMIC MATTERS

HUMAN RESOURCES

COMPUTER SYSTEMS

RECEPTION AND ARCHIVES

QUALITY MANAGEMENT

LEGAL CONSULTANCY

SECRETARY AND EXT. RELATIONSHIP

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Average growth in staff numbers

ACSUG main activities:

Activities related to adopting EHEA requirements

Setting up internal quality assurance systems for degree programmes (FIDES and AUDIT programmes).

Verification, follow-up and accreditation of officially recognised programmes (VERIFICA programme).

University services evaluation. Assessment of teaching staff (DOCENTIA programme).

Accreditation prior to teaching staff recruitment.

Teaching staff complementary compensation.

Labour market insertion analysis and surveys

ACSUG presentation (III)

3 Universities: Santiago de Compostela (USC), A Coruña (UDC) and Vigo (UVI).

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Degree courses offered inthe Galician UniversitySystem (SUG) bybranches of knowledge

7 campuses:UDC: Campuses of A Coruña and FerrolUSC: Campuses of Santiago de Compostela and LugoUVI: Campuses of Vigo, Ourense and Pontevedra

About 75000 students last academic year.

JUSTIFICATION

Why ?

The quality of higher education can be translated in terms of insertion in the labour market.

To contribute towards improving the quality of training for graduates of the SUG.

Responsibility of the universities in terms of the employability of their graduates.

The design of the new study plans based on competences.

What for?

To improve the quality of the university courses offered

in the SUG.

To provide a retrospective view of the graduates that

makes it possible to detect the training and

organisational needs of the institutions.

To improve the quality of the insertion of SUG graduates

into the workplace.

To contribute towards improving the employability of

future graduates.

JUSTIFICATION

STUDIES ON INSERTION IN THE LABOUR MARKET: GRADUATES

METHODOLOGY

GENERAL AND SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES

MOST RELEVANT RESULTS Technical data from studies

Percentage of SUG graduates who work

Skills, knowledge and attitudes of the graduates

Employment search routes

Factors valued in hiring

Utilidad de los conocimientos adquiridos en el título

Necesidad de información sobre empleo en la universidad

Satisfacción con los estudios realizados

Selection of the population Request for data from the universities of the USG Stratified sampling Field work: C.A.T.I system Debugging, analysis and review of results Production of reports: recipients, publicity and

dissemination.

METHODOLOGY

Discovering the opinion of graduates from the different degree

courses in the USG on their employment situation.

Discovering the difficulties encountered in their incorporation into

the job market.

Describing the behaviour, attitudes and opinions of graduates.

Contributing towards adapting the educational offer to the needs of

the job market.

Establishing a means of obtaining information for forecasting the

future development of the university.

GENERAL OBJECTIVES

Discovering the opinion of graduates on education and the university

Studying the level of use and efficiency of the different means of finding

employment

Discovering the situation of the job market for different degrees

Discovering the opinion of graduates on the strong and weak points of the

faculty or school where they studied, as well as needs for additional training

Discovering the situation of the job market for graduates from the USG and

the features of working as professionals

Discovering the level of satisfaction of graduates with their jobs, if they

work, and how far these meet the expectations they had while studying.

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES

•Population: graduates in SUG in academic years 2001-2003, 2003-2005 and 2005-2006

•Sample: stratified, by degree course-campus

•Absolute maximum error: 10% in each stratus

•Field work: telephone survey

April-June 2007

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2005-20062001-2003Academic year

TECHNICAL DATA

Branches of knowledge 2001-2003 2003-2005 2005-2006

Health Sciences 76.50% 76.06% 74.92%

Sciences 49.41% 60.50% 63.88%

Engineering and Architecture 71.10% 83.28% 79.06%

Social and Legal Sciences I 56.21% 78.32% 74.98%

Social and Legal Sciences II 46.30% 59.74% 62.17%

Social and Legal Sciences III 43.00% 62.07% 66.56%

Social and Legal Sciences IV 61.00% 70.06% 73.83%

Arts and Humanities I 35.50% 60.74% 59.96%

Arst and Humanities II 45.50% 66.27% 65.92%

SUG 55.70% 71.00% 71.07%

Analysis of results based on areas of knowledge: Health Sciences, Sciences, Engineering and Architecture, Social and Legal Sciences I, Social and Legal Sciences II, Social and Legal Sciences III, Social and Legal Sciences IV, Arts and Humanities I and Arts and Humanities II.

RESULTS: Percentage of SUG graduates who work

• “ competence is the ability to respond to demands and perform tasks in a suitable manner”

(according to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development in the DESECO Definition and Selection of Competencies study, 1998)

• “competence refers to the behaviour, skills, knowledge and attitudes which favour the correct performance of work and which the organisation is interested in developing or recognising in its collaborators with the aim of achieving the strategic goals of the company”

RESULTS : Skills, knowledge and attitudes

• “…..a dynamic combination of attributes - with respect to knowledge and its application, to the attitudes and responsibilities - which describe the results of learning a specific programme, or how the students will be capable of fending for themselves on the completion of the educational process”

(According to the TUNING project, 2003)

RESULTS: Skills, knowledge and attitudes

• competences “the abilities, attitudes and knowledge

necessary to carry out working activities with the required levels of quality and efficacy in employment”

RESULTS : Skills, knowledge and attitudes

Skills, knowledge and attitudes 2001-2003 2003-2005 2005-2006

Motivation 4.26 4.45 4.50

Learning abilities 4.29 4.45 4.48

Problem-solving ability 4.24 4.43 4.45

Written and oral communication skills 4.31 4.35 4.41

Taking responsabilities 4.13 4.35 4.39

Working in a team capacity 4.27 4.28 4.35

RESULTS :Most valued skills, knowledge and attitudes

Scale of evaluation 1: None to 5: Much

Skills, knowledge and attitudes 2001-2003 2003-2005 2005-2006

Computer skills 3.54 3.91 3.90

Critical thinking 3.53 3.85 3.87

Broad general knowledge 3.60 3.79 3.78

Creativity 3.56 3.74 3.70

Leadership 3.23 3.37 3.44

Foreign language knowledge 2.81 3.27 3.26

RESULTS :Least valued skills, knowledge and attitudes

Scale of evaluation 1: None to 5: Much

RESULTS : Most valued skills, knowledge and attitudes

Scale of evaluation 1: None to 5: Much (SUG graduates 2005-2006)

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Learning abilities 5 2 2 1 3 3 4 2 3 2

Problem-solving ability 4 3 1 3 1 4 10 6 4 3

Written and oral communication skills 7 4 12 7 2 2 1 4 2 4

Taking responsabilities 3 5 5 5 5 9 11 12 9 5

RESULTS: Average of employment search routes

Employment search routes 2001-2003 2003-2005 2005-2006

Internet 3.14 3.24 3.52

Self-promotion (sending CV) 3.65 3.55 3.41

Through friends and relatives 2.78 2.63 2.54Responding to employment advertisements in the newspaper 3.03 2.72 2.48

INEM 3.05 2.43 2.16Introduction to public entrance examination/temporary competition 2.08 1.92 1.98

Galician Public Employment 3.08 2.33 1.97Employment scholarships from other isntitutions/managed by other institutions

2.16 1.76 1.84

Offers and employment scholarships through the university (not OSIX) 2.04 1.76 1.83

Temporary employment agency (ETT) 2.13 1.88 1.77

University-employers foundation 1.80 1.57 1.67

Self-employment 1.45 1.40 1.37

Consulting 1.39 1.33 1.32

Placing advertisements 1.19 1.28 1.24

OSIX 1.29 1.28 1.19

Scale of evaluation 1: None to 5: Much

Factors valued in hiring 2001-2003 2003-2005 2005-2006Mobility 4.17 4.29 4.25Working experience 4.47 4.33 4.24Interview 4.13 4.22 4.19

Opportunity 4.38 4.31 4.16

Degree 4.01 4.04 4.05

Perseverance 4.04 4.14 4.04

Computer skills 3.96 4.12 4.02

Internships 3.83 3.93 3.74

Foreign languages 3.59 3.72 3.68Relationships 3.95 3.79 3.60Absence of relative load/commitment 3.62 3.63 3.54Internships in other companies 3.58 3.75 3.51Selection test 3.78 3.50 3.43Postgraduate, masters degree or PhD 3.39 3.35 3.31Specialization 2.83 3.04 3.03Faculty/school reputation 2.89 2.89 2.87Academic file 2.70 2.60 2.62

RESULTS: Average of factors valued in hiring

Scale of evaluation 1: None to 5: Much

% quite/much 2003-2005 2005-2006

Health Sciences 68.35% 71.55%

Sciences 65.52% 58.92%

Engineering and Architecture 58.38% 52.83%

Social and Legal Sciences I 55.84% 51.35%

Social and Legal Sciences II 63.06% 60.01%

Social and Legal Sciences III 60.42% 57.69%

Social and Legal Sciences IV 60.15% 53.70%

Arts and Humanities I 65.36% 67.64%

Arst and Humanities II 69.03% 69.15%

SUG 61.39% 58.47%

Scale of evaluation 1: None to 5: Much

RESULTS: Use of knowledge acquired in the degree

STUDIES ON INSERTION IN THE JOB MARKET: EMPLOYERS

To offer a different perspective: that of employers

To provide information to universities on educational

demands from employers

To study which competences businesses demand in their

employees

Analysis of university education and its orientation towards

the job market

METHODOLOGY

GENERAL AND SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES

MOST RELEVANT RESULTS Skills, knowledge and attitudes of the graduates

STUDIES ON INSERTION IN THE JOB MARKET: EMPLOYERS

Selection of the population: Galician SMEs, SABI database. Random stratified sample Fieldwork: telephone and mail surveys Debugging, analysis and review of results Production of reports: recipients, publicity and

dissemination.

METHODOLOGY

To estimate the potential demand for graduates by Galician SMEs in the short term

Specific objectives

Finding out about the situation of Galician SMEs in relation to their university work

Studying the future demand for graduates in the Autonomous Region

Analysing the factors that contribute most towards the hiring of graduates: education required and competences and abilities valued by employers

OBJECTIVES

Average assessment

Positive attitude 4,59 Problem-solving ability 4,37 Working in a team capacity 4,34 Capacity to learn and adapt to changes 4,30 Taking responsabilities 4,30 Planning, coordinating and organising 4,27 Oral communication skills 4,00 Leadership 3,38

Scale of evaluation 1: None to 5: Much

RESULTS :Most valued skills, knowledge and attitudes

CONCLUSIONS: graduates and employers

• Graduates and employers :

Knowledge is considered as the foundation over which a professional future can be constructed, and

competences, considered as personal skills, abilities and attitudes, are essential elements for

professional development.

Skills, knowledge and attitudes most valued:

Problem solving ability

Working in a team capacity

Taking responsabilities

Written and oral communication skills

• Graduates and employers:

The most valued competences by employers such as leadership skills and foreign

language knowledge are those which are the least valued by graduates.

Dissemination of results:

Publications

Regional press E-mail Mail Via website

INFORMATION SYSTEMS

• Website:

– http://www.acsug.es

• E-mail:

– insercion.laboral@acsug.es– luis.velon@acsug.es– mari.montes@acsug.es

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