Abstract
The study consists of three relatively independent parts that are however connected by the same subject. The first major topic of the study is how in different countries they react to problems of employability of higher education graduates in the labor market, and what measures are taken specifically in state higher education policy to solve problems of imbalance between demand and supply of higher education.
Development was analyzed in ten countries: Italy, Germany, Denmark, the Netherlands, France, Great Britain, USA, Russia, China and South Korea. The second part of the study deals with international comparison of evaluation of higher education graduates by their employers.
It is based on a survey conducted in 2012-2013 among more than 900 employers in nine European countries and it involved experts of SVP PedF UK also. Comparative research answers the following sets of questions: What are the major trends on the labour market for higher education graduates and how these trends impact the skills that higher education graduates are supposed to have? What are the key characteristics that employers look at when they recruit higher education graduates? What are the skills that graduates should possess in order to be employable? Are these identified characteristics and skills comparable across countries and professional fields? In the third part data on the employability of graduates of each public and private higher education institutions in the Czech Republic are explained and interpreted and published in the attached table.
Unemployment rate of graduates is specially analyzed by time elapsed from graduation, type of school (public vs. private), type of education (Bachelor’s, Master’s and PhD) and its evolution in time for the last eleven years. The unemployment rate of graduates over the last 4 years has increased quite significantly.
Of those graduates not continuing in their studies 5.5% were unemployed six months to one year after graduation in 2012/13.