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David F J Campbell ([email protected]): “Bachelors and Employability” BeSt3 “The Job and Education Fair”: Vienna, March 2, 2007
Bachelors and Employability 2007/09:Challenges for the employability of BAs
1. The Bachelors as a “short-term” degree versus the expectation that, as a consequence of LLL (“life-long learning”), the demand on the individual to extend the number of accomplished academic degrees will expand;
2. “BA” degrees must be seen as “individual components” of a more comprehensive education and degree system;
David F J Campbell ([email protected]): “Bachelors and Employability” BeSt3 “The Job and Education Fair”: Vienna, March 2, 2007
Bachelors and Employability 2007/10:Challenges for the employability of BAs
3. The Bachelors must integrate: (specialized) knowledge, social skills, personality;
4. Practical knowledge (internships/“Praktika”) will gain crucially in importance for the BA;
5. The disciplinary tracks of the BA degrees will equal the disciplinary logic of the previous system versus the disciplinary basket will be reshuffled;
David F J Campbell ([email protected]): “Bachelors and Employability” BeSt3 “The Job and Education Fair”: Vienna, March 2, 2007
Bachelors and Employability 2007/12:Challenges for the employability of BAs
9. BAs: Language of teaching in the national language (German) and/or in English;
10. BAs: Recognition of work experience for certain BA modules or not;
11. BAs: “Horizontal mobility” – the ability of adding additional studies and degrees in an “interdisciplinary mode” after completion of a BA’s degree.
David F J Campbell ([email protected]): “Bachelors and Employability” BeSt3 “The Job and Education Fair”: Vienna, March 2, 2007
Bachelors and Employability 2007/13:Hypothetical typology & virtual %
distribution of BAs and MAs
• In the following, as working hypotheses for a further debate, a (micro) typology of different profiles of BA and MA degrees and of their (“virtual”) percentage distribution of frequency – in the future – are being presented.