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University Observatory Employability and Employment


The Employability and Employment Observatory University emerges from the current situation, in which "unemployment, instability, training and labor mismatches, are just some of the problems they face Spanish university" explain its promoters. In collaboration with universities around the country, will be responsible to collect and generate information that contributes to design educational policies and favorable to finish school work. This article describes the work of the Observatory, its intention to become a benchmark for college and employment, and the role of the Centers for Collection and Analysis of Information distributed

University Observatory Employability and Employment

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More than a million unemployed university is a fact that leads to reflection. Therefore universities have teamed up to try to find solutions. Thus was born the University Observatory Employability and Employment, an initiative of the Conference of Rectors of Spanish Universities (CRUE), UNESCO Chair and University Management Policy at the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM) and the Foundation of Social Work "la Caixa ", which provides financial and institutional support.

Its priorities include analyzing how many graduates find work, the time it takes to find, what kind of contracts signed and even if you are satisfied with the job they get. These are some of the goals that detail the drivers own project also concerned about the level of entrepreneurship among Spanish university, type of work related to their studies that get placed, if they are overqualified for these jobs, if they have professional skills required by companies or if instead the university must apply changes and to what extent influence the studies in the career.

In short, the Observatory is concerned "after" to guide the "before": what happens once graduates leave school, what situation they face in the labor market and what can the university to improve the chances of access to work. "It's an initiative that studies and measures the employment and employability of university graduates in Spain they explain that generates reliable and timely information for the design of educational policies and employment information."

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The Centre's objective is to become the informative source of national and regional reference. Thus, aims to collect and generate information and indicators that meet international quality standards, explains. The headquarters is located in the UNESCO University Management and Policy Chair UPM, but has a network of ten Collection and Analysis of Information (CRAI), distributed in the Spanish university system.

In these centers, researchers and technicians work with the same methodology. Also, a tip from a group of academicians and national and international technical experts from different fields and disciplines advise and assist in the annual planning and evaluation of the activities of the Centre. The goal is to "support information decision of prospective students, current students and college graduates and employers, politicians and university managers with responsibilities in education and employment".

Centers for collecting and analyzing information

The CRAI were organized from a number of criteria. You searched not divide an autonomous community colleges or grouped into the same set of several communities where each has a relatively high number of students and schools. Moreover, it has taken into account the geographical proximity, history and history of collaboration and teaching modality (blended and international).

This method sets the ten have formed, leading to the corresponding units. These "may be based on an observatory, center, institute, agency, among others, involving one or more universities." Unit cooordinaciĆ³n address, members of the board of experts and each of the units are available on the website of the Observatory.

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