Universities, Employability and Human Development.

Universities, Employability andHuman Development; Preface; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; 1 Contextual and Policy Conditions; University-Employability-Employment; Higher Education for Human Development, Well-Being and Agency; Education Purposes; Tracing Key Policy Developments in South African Higher Education; The Current Higher Education Context: Policy, Participation and Funding; The Employability Research Project; What Follows; Notes; References; 2 Graduate Employability, Global Shifts and Local Realities; Perspectives on What Universities Do.

Higher Education and Socio-economic DevelopmentGraduate Employability: Assumptions and Tensions; Graduate Employability in South Africa; Contextual Realities; Graduate Demand Predictors; Graduate Supply Predictors; Higher Education as/and the Public Good; Note; References; 3 A Human Capabilities Conceptualization of Graduate Employability; Development as Well-Being (Individual, Social and National) and Agency; Capabilities, Agency Freedoms and Equality; Not to Neglect Functionings; 'Conversion Factors': Education and Inequalities; Resources (Including Income); Capital or Capabilities.

Which Capabilities?A 'Good' Education; Notes; References; 4 Employability and Conversion Factors; Understandings of 'Graduate Employability'; Personal Conversion Factors; Social-university Conversion Factors Influencing Employability; University Reputation; Field of Study; Aspirations; Misalignment of Theory and Practice; Extra-curricular Activities; Human Development Values as a Conversion Factor for Expansive Employability; Graduate Employability; Notes; References; 5 Access and Participation; University Contributions; Enhancing Inclusive Access; Teaching and Learning.

The Contribution of the Careers OfficeCan Universities Do More?; Note; References; 6 Democratic Citizenship and Employable Graduates; Why Citizenship When Considering Employability?; Nussbaum and Three Human Development Capabilities; Critical Examination; Global Citizenship; Narrative Imagination; 'Human Development Citizenship': University Visions, Missions and Values; Developing Citizens: University Arrangements; Perspectives from Staff and Students: Fostering Citizenship Values; Teaching and Cultivating Citizenship; Student Agency Freedoms; Towards 'Human Development-Citizenship'

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