Aligning Graduate Teacher Education with Labour Market Needs: Strategies for Enhancing Employability in Complex and Dynamic Labour Markets

Misheck Samakao and Gift Masaiti
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Misheck Samakao: Kwame Nkrumah University, Zambia
Gift Masaiti: Kwame Nkrumah University, Zambia

International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science, 2025, vol. 9, issue 1, 2333-2342

Abstract: It has been established that there are complex relationships amongst education, labour supply, demand and employability. The relationship amongst these variables has kindled numerous debate amongst scholars, academicians, economists and scientists. Education itself influences the levels of labour demand and supply. Similarly, the levels of labour supply and demand have strong influence on the overrall levels of employability on the labour markets. There are linkages in between the variables that significantly determine the cause-effect relationships. Understanding the relationships amongst these variables could significantly help in finding the solution to the problem of graduate unemployability on the labour market. This article aimed at exploring what could be done with graduate teacher education in order to increase demand for graduate teachers on the labour market. The study employed mixed methods research which was grounded in pragmatism. Both probabilistic and non-probabilistic methods of data collections were used. The quantitative data was analysed using SPSS while thematic análysis was used to analyse qualitative data. The study results indicated that graduates do not have additional skills for employability on the labour markets. Furthermore, it was also established that the traditional graduate teacher education could be transformed by linking it to the labour markets needs. The introduction of the international language skills, culture, research, innovations and entrepreneurial skills could significantly transform the graduate teacher education thereby making it of a higher quality and consequently translating into increased demand and supply for the enhanced graduate teacher employability on the labour market. Demand and supply could be predominantly manipulated through the nature of the education being given out. It was recommended that the government could actively lead in the process of graduate teacher education and transformation through policy, robust curriculum reviews and quality improvement.

Date: 2025
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