Quality Management in Higher Education: Enhancing Students’ Employability through Self-directed Learning

Mousumi Roy and Chatterjee Tilak

Advances In Management, 2009, vol. 2, issue 9

Abstract: Surveys were conducted amongst the potential employers and amongst the tertiary level students (general courses) to gauge their skill and mindset profile to explore the problem of students’ employability from both demand and supply ends. A secondary survey of higher educational institutes (HEI) offering general courses was also taken up in India to find out their role in providing students support for progression and enhancement of employability. It was observed that tertiary level students in general exhibited very low self-belief on their capabilities and cognitive abilities which according to the present study was the root to poor employability. Student’s dependence on both teacher centric instructions- based teaching-learning and tutoring based preparation for summative assessment was observed as the possible explanation behind this lacunae. The solution was therefore explored in how the students learn and how much they apply themselves in varied situations of “new tasks’’. The paper suggests an innovative approach of instilling learner’s self-directed learning propensity by way of developing their cognitive capabilities by encouraging them to learn how to learn through a process formative self assessment.

Date: 2009

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