But do they secure these jobs because employers are impressed by a degree, or by the extra skills graduates develop by studying for one?
Recently, in addition to technical competence and soft skills, graduates' business acumen has also been identified as crucial to their well- roundedness.
"It's important that employers and the higher education sector work together to identify the skills graduates need for the future and work together to address these".
These studies on the type of skills graduates possess and the match between these skills and employer requirements allude to the traditional debate on the value of college liberal arts degree programs versus the applied sciences (Giles and Drewes 2002).
Like many Iraqi refugees, Ibrahim and his fellow life skills graduates had a multitude of reasons for not returning to education.
Using this approach, Jones, McArdle and O'Neill [ 10] surveyed the perceptions of graduates on new and old courses at Manchester University, UK, and found that across a range of broad competencies and specific skills, graduates of the new course considered that they were better prepared for their professional practice.
Restricted to those with an MPH (to ensure that members have a high degree of knowledge and skills), graduates are automatically enrolled in the Alumni group and given access to a dedicated space on the password-protected courses web site (http://courses.peoples-uni.org).org
I have since seen many of my friends with weaker writing and social skills graduate with Ph.D.s.
Check out articles by Next Wave's UK columnist, Phil Dee, who writes about the transferable skills graduate students can pick up along the way to a Ph.D. Louie Lamorte, a Canadian graduate student, recently shared his thoughts on getting through grad school with Next Wave's readers.
I have gained tailoring skills, graduated from the program and now own my business.
