Tracking Third Level Graduates

How Europe Tracks Students

September 24, 2012 - 3:00am

By

Doug Lederman

It has become an article of faith among many policy makers in the United States that the country needs better data about student progress through higher education and into the work force. The perceived inadequacy of currently available federal and state information, for accountability and institutional improvement purposes alike, has prompted a drive by the Obama administration and its foundation partners in the “completion agenda” to strengthen federal, and state and institutional data collection and usage.

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Equipping graduates for working abroad

Is it not about time that we accepted the fact that Ireland cannot provide employment for all of its graduates and that a large portion of them are going to emigrate? What we do need to look at is how best to equip them to travel abroad to find employment, to test their learning, develop greater understanding and for those who wish to, to return to Ireland with enhanced knowledge which they can add to Ireland’s growing knowledge society/smart economy.

Have our Careers Guidance Counsellors got sufficient support and knowledge to advise school leavers and graduates on the opportunities of foreign experience and what they need to know to make a success of working abroad?