Abstract
The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of Institutional attributes on the employability readiness of the engineering graduates of the High Education Institutes in Oman. The study adopted a self-directed structured questionnaire was distributed to a sample of engineering students and graduates from a number of colleges and universities. The study used structural equation modelling (SEM) for analysing the collected data. The findings of the statistical analysis of the study showed that Omani graduates signify the contribution of the HEIs Policies, Classroom environment, the implementation of Student Centric Approach strategies on the graduates’ readiness for employability skills attainment. Also, the findings of the study recommend HEIs to improve their teaching quality, overall Syllabus and Course Curriculum, assessment strategies, and teaching materials to enhance their graduates with required graduates’ readiness for employability skills. Specifically, study findings showed Institutional attributes factor could high have an influence on the Readiness for Employability of the graduates in Oman when the HEIs reform effectively the Institution-Related attributes factors analysed in the research study. Finally, the study’s implementations and recommendations could be transferred to the Gulf and Arab or other countries’ contexts having similar settings of HE systems and similar issues of skills gap and employability concern of their graduates.
Highlights
Graduate readiness for employability is the main driver for HEIs all over the world
The HEIs have added a range of employable readiness required competencies including soft, and generic technical skills-based learning outcomes that are integrated into their degree curricula programmes hoping to improve their graduate readiness for employability
The study findings demonstrate no significant influence of Institution-Related attributes factor (H1) on the Readiness for Employability of the engineering graduates of the HEIs in
Summary
Graduate readiness for employability is the main driver for HEIs all over the world. To achieve this objective, the HEIs have added a range of employable readiness required competencies including soft, and generic technical skills-based learning outcomes that are integrated into their degree curricula programmes hoping to improve their graduate readiness for employability. One study had analysed the ways universities deliver graduate employability required skills and their methods of embedded them into their programme curricula. He analysed three influencing factors which affects graduate employability. Those factors are the human capital factors, the social capital factors and the individual behaviour factors (Holmes, 2013)
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