- Title
- The quality of higher education and its influence on graduate employability and employer perception
- Creator
- Mqingwana, Siviwe Nokulinda
- ThesisAdvisor
- Cuthbert, Carol
- Subject
- Employability
- Subject
- Career education
- Subject
- Education, Higher Aims and objectives
- Subject
- College graduates Employment
- Subject
- Universities and colleges Ratings and rankings
- Subject
- Labor supply Effect of education on
- Subject
- College graduates Vocational guidance
- Date
- 2022-04-06
- Type
- Academic theses
- Type
- Master's theses
- Type
- text
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/284526
- Identifier
- vital:56071
- Description
- This study examined the quality of higher education and its influence on graduate employability and employer perception. Through determining the factors influencing graduates’ employment by employers and also the elements that induce employers in employing graduates, this was achieved. This research is rooted in a positivist perspective determining the relationship between graduate employability and a universities’ status. The main goal of this research was to examine to what extent employers are influenced by a higher education institution's perceived reputation when employing graduates. The linear regression model was used to predict the relationship between graduate employability (dependent variable) and the perceived reputation of the university by employers and citations of the university. This was achieved using quantitative methods. The quantitative database that this research relied on is Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) world university ranking. This research made use of descriptive data analysis as well as linear regression. The data set analysis showed citations of the institution had a significant negative relationship with the rate of employability (although this was a relatively weak relationship). The reputation of the institution and the number of international students enrolled do not affect the rate of employability. The analysed data set also showed that the number of citations of a university had a significant impact on the rate of employability at the 10% significance level. As such, higher education institutions need to consider including current market demand into their offerings to improve their graduate’s employability.
- Description
- Thesis (MBA) -- Faculty of Commerce, Rhodes Business School, 2022
- Format
- computer, online resource, application/pdf, 1 online resource (51 pages), pdf
- Publisher
- Rhodes University, Faculty of Commerce, Rhodes Business School
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Mqingwana, Siviwe Nokulinda
- Rights
- Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons "Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike" License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/)
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