Academic Graduates Research Articles

Future-proofing entertainment: Navigating market changes in television and internet video services through predictive modeling

This research investigates the further prospects of TV and internet video services in the dynamic Yemen market by analyzing the factors that influence their use and engagement. This research expands its framework by including the combined concept of absorption and employ of technologies, and the idea of technology disruptions and systems improvement adding an entertaining bend to the analysis. Its purpose is to investigate the connection between the intention to use and the behaviour of interacting with the material. The research subjects were answered by a group of 400 academic graduates. In contrast to previous studies, this study discovered that only the Perceived Ease of Use (PES) is effectively connected with the desire to use online video services. However, it also revealed a significant optimistic connection between customer quality Online Flow Experience (OFE), Perceived Behavioral Control (PBO), and Instrumental Orientation (IR), the purpose to employ internet video services. Findings indicate a decline in TV viewership, while the limited amount of available money may pose a significant obstacle to the expansion of video platforms. This study provides vital insights into the evolving consumer behavior inside Yeman's media network at a period of minimal investigation.

Stratification of Urban Health Centers of Khorramabad Based on Socioeconomic Status of Households Using Factor Analysis and Cluster Analysis

Background: In numerous studies in the field of medical sciences, researchers use health centers as a frame for stratified sampling. Since socioeconomic variables play a major role in health outcomes, the present study aimed to classify urban health centers of Khorramabad in terms of the socioeconomic status of households using factor and cluster analysis. Materials and Methods: In this cross-sectional study, the statistical population included all urban areas of Khorramabad based on the population and housing census conducted by the Statistical Center of Iran. Firstly, the scatter maps of urban areas and health centers were adopted together. Thereafter, socioeconomic indexes of urban areas were calculated in seven fields, and exploratory factor analysis was used to reduce dimensions. Finally, the similar health centers in terms of factor scores were allocated to the same clusters by k-means cluster analysis using SPSS software (version 26) and were displayed on city maps using Arc GIS software. Results: Three factors identified in factor analysis explained about 73.3% of the total variance of socioeconomic indexes. Based on cluster analysis, 11 health centers were located in cluster 1 (related to lower educational attainment, poorer housing amenities, and higher rate of homelessness and divorce), 16 centers were located in cluster 2 (related to higher studying persons rate, lower marriage rate in women, lower unemployment rate, and higher residence in apartment flats) and 10 health centers were located in cluster 3 (related to higher academic graduates, more profitable jobs, and better housing amenities). Conclusion: The results of this research can be used in health studies in urban areas of Khorramabad as a basis for performing stratified sampling. Furthermore, it is recommended that authorities adopt more effective planning to improve deprived areas in cluster one.

Мотивация трудоустройства выпускников колледжей: анализ изменений

In the context of large-scale import substitution, improving the training of workers for all sectors of the national economy in the system of secondary vocational education becomes an urgent problem. It is necessary to cre-ate conditions that ensure the formation of motivation among college graduates for the implementation of the entire volume of competencies acquired during the study in the specialty or associated with it. In this regard, there is a need to investigate the motivations that determine the employment of current academic graduates. Based on the materials of three sociological studies conducted by the Ural Federal University in 2018, 2021, 2023, the main factors influencing the choice of a future place of work by senior students of different colleges of the Middle Urals are revealed. The article shows changes in assessment of the level of the desired salary, prospects of realization of abilities, professional and career growth when making a decision to work in a pro-fession or adjacent to it.

The Relationship between Employability Skill and Job Mismatch towards Graduates’ Unemployment

Academic graduates are expected to contribute more significantly to industry and the national economy by bringing in skills, knowledge, innovation, and productivity. Their role is essential in driving industrial growth, sustainability, and overall development for economic growth. However, in Malaysia, the difficulty of finding employment for graduates has become a major problem, not only from the graduates’ point of view but also from the employer. While the graduates are struggling to find job openings that match their skills, the employers at the other end find it difficult to locate people who are compatible with their businesses' vision. In Malaysia, several causes contributed to an increase in the unemployment rate for recent graduates including graduates' lack of employability skills and job mismatches. Quality such as communication, soft skills, problem-solving, and creative abilities, are shown to be weak in unemployed graduates. This research attempts to examine the relationship between employability skills and job mismatches towards the graduate’s unemployment. A questionnaire has been developed to gather the data. Graduates of the Faculty of Business and Management (FBM), UiTM have been identified as the population. Descriptive and regression analyses were run using SPSS software. Findings suggested that both independent variables (employability skills and job mismatches) contributed significantly towards the graduate’s unemployment. This study is significant as it highlights the need for graduates to improve necessary skills such as leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills (Briones, G. et al., 2021) needed within the industry to land a job.

The reasons for the gap between academic education and the required skills of the labor market in Iran

PurposeThe present study aims to investigate the reasons for the gap between academic education and the required skills of the labor market in Iran.Design/methodology/approachFor this purpose, the authors adopted a thematic analysis method. The participants in the study were connoisseurs from universities and research institutes in Iran, who were selected with purposeful sampling methods of snowball type. To collect the data, the authors used a semi-structured interview and performed a thematic analysis for data analysis.FindingsThe findings showed that the views and perceptions of the connoisseurs participating in the study about the reasons for the gap between academic education and the skills required in the labor market in Iran can be classified into four main themes including lack of attention to labor market needs in the academic curricula, lack of attention to practical and entrepreneurial skills in the academic curricula, the weak link between universities and industry and society, and shortage of academic resources and equipment in some academic disciplines.Originality/valueThe present study had three implications. First, the human capital theory, the social closure theory, the positional conflict theory and the labor market segmentation theory are more compatible with the labor market of Iranian graduates, compared to other theories of the labor market. Second, the lack of coordination between academic education and the required skills in the labor market has weakened the Iranian economy. Third, the absence of practical and entrepreneurial skills in academic graduates has led to increased unemployment in Iranian society.

KONTRIBUSI KEPEMIMPINAN VISIONER KEPALA SEKOLAH DAN PELAKSANAAN SUPERVISI TERHADAP EFEKTIVITAS SEKOLAH DASAR (SD) DI KECAMATAN DARUL IMARAH KABUPATEN ACEH BESAR

As an institution, schools are intended to produce academic graduates who have talent and character. High management standards, as well as openness, responsibility, and accountability, are characteristics of effective schools. Efficient schools serve as the best learning environments while providing high-quality teaching. In this study, the principal's initiative was carried out to support teachers and staff in improving the learning process and developing a better teaching and learning environment to achieve academic goals. The implementation of the principal's supervision, the principal's inspirational leadership, and school success are the three variables included in this study. The research was conducted through quantitative research techniques. Each variable can be explained individually thanks to this investigation. The relationship between different variables is evaluated using correlation. 36 elementary school teachers from Darul Imarah sub-district, Aceh Besar district participated in this study. The research findings show that visionary leadership has an average impact on school effectiveness of 4.44. The partial correlation coefficients for school effectiveness are 0.545 and 0.397, respectively. When compared with the principal's visionary variable, the supervisory performance of the principal has a stronger partial correlation coefficient. Substantial correlations were found between Principal Visionary Leadership (X2) 0.399, Principal Supervision Implementation (X1) 0.033, and School Effectiveness (Y) 0.00.

Tinjauan Ketepatan Kode Diagnosis Pada Kasus Bedah Pasien Rawat Inap di RSKD Duren Sawit

Based on Kenmenkes RI in 2014, it explains about coding which has the meaning as an activity of providing main diagnosis codes and secondary diagnoses in accordance with ICD-10 and providing procedure codes in accordance with ICD-9CM. Coding inaccuracies can affect the financing of health services, this study was conducted to see the accuracy of the main and secondary diagnosis codes of surgical cases of inpatients at Duren Sawit Hospital using descriptive research methods with a quantitative approach, namely writing aims to describe the results obtained on the accuracy of diagnosis codification. Informants in this study were inpatient coders at RSKD Duren Sawit, data collection in this study using interviews and observation methods. The results of this study indicate that the coding SPO uses the latest procedures based on an electronic system, the educational background of the coder at RSKD Duren Sawit has an important role in the quality of the correct code. The competence of the coder at RSKD Duren Sawit still has to undergo deeper learning, in the results of coding research on surgical cases of inpatients, it was found that the average dignosis code that had accuracy was 58 (63.74%) and 33 (36.26%) were inappropriate, and it was also found that the results of the accuracy of the secondary diagnosis were 84 (92.30%) and 7 (7.70%) were inappropriate. Based on the 4 characters, the inaccuracy occurred in the main diagnosis of the majority in the 4th character as many as 31 (34.7%). There are factors that become obstacles to the identification of 5M, namely the man factor, the lack of accuracy of doctors in inputting diagnoses and the lack of accuracy of officers in re-examining incorrect diagnosis codes and having to undergo learning related to coding more deeply for diagnosis coding officers who are not from academic graduates of medical records.

Vocational education: a poor second choice? A comparison of the labour market outcomes of academic and vocational graduates in China

ABSTRACT In the Reform Era, the Chinese Government has placed great emphasis on the role of education in ensuring the economic success of individuals and of the country as a whole. While vocational and academic post-secondary qualifications are officially set at the same level, vocational education is positioned at the bottom of the educational hierarchy and suffers considerable societal prejudice. Drawing on the most recent nationwide-representative data, we investigate the labour market positioning of graduates from the two types of education in terms of their income, occupation, and level of employment precariousness. The results suggest that: (1) vocational graduates earn less than academic graduates; (2) the type of post-secondary education is significantly correlated with the likelihood of obtaining white-collar high-skilled positions; and (3) vocational graduates face greater precariousness in their jobs than academic graduates do. This study also reveals that the hierarchically stratified post-secondary system may be a source of economic inequality in the Chinese Reform Era. Moreover, it demonstrates that the visible hand of the state seems to further facilitate the reproduction of current forms of inequality that leave an increasing number of graduates in marginalised labour market positions.

Pengembangan Kurikulum Mandiri Berbasis Capaian di SMA Al Hikmah Boarding School Batu

Reforms and decentralization helped to accelerate progress towards achieving progress. Educational autonomy needs to be maximized in balancing the currents of the global climate. The ability of educational institutions to adapt to the global climate is very much needed. So that when faced with the current Covid-19 outbreak, schools can survive and run stably. The key component in the management of education is the curriculum. The role of the curriculum as the brain of the operationalization of the institution can be designed creatively and independently. Achievement-based independent curriculum as a manifestation of educational autonomy. This research focuses on the design and model of achievement-based independent curriculum development. The aim is to find an achievement-based independent curriculum design and model in boarding schools. This research uses a qualitative approach with the type of case study research. The results of the study found that the curriculum development design at SMA al Hikmah Boarding School was based on the competency standards of shalih, muslih, and optimal academic graduates. Meanwhile, the development step consists of four components, including philosophical construction, strengthening the foundation based on vision-mission-objectives, designing innovation programs, and producing program innovation outputs. Meanwhile, the Al Hikmah Boarding School curriculum model is independent-intergartive. The model by integrating the program into graduate competency standards is in the form of a life proposal and leadership character.

Transactional Leadership Patterns For Human Resources Development

The pattern of leadership is a style or model of leadership used by leaders to influence subordinates so that organizational goals are achieved or it can also be said that leadership style is a pattern of behavior and strategies that are preferred and often applied by a leader. A leader in an educational institution must have a style or model in order to influence his subordinates in order to achieve goals at the institution. The transactional leadership pattern can be interpreted as the method used by a leader in moving his members by offering rewards/consequences for each contribution made by members to the organization.
 The focus of this research is to find out the leadership pattern of a madrasah principal in his efforts to develop human resources, in this case educators and education staff. Because in reality, madrasas are still seen as educational institutions that are less good than public schools. The progress of an educational institution cannot be separated from the participation of the principal, educators, teaching staff and parents of students. The author sees the leadership pattern of the head of MI Muhammadiyah 2 Kedungbanteng Tanggulangin with a transactional leadership pattern
 This study uses a descriptive method which is carried out through data collection in the field, which provides an overview of the leadership of the madrasah principal. This research approach uses a qualitative approach. The data of this research are in the form of quotes, words, phrases, and story sentences. 
 From the research conducted, MI Muhammadiyah 2 Kedungbanteng has not yet fully implemented the pattern of transactional leadership, because the exiting human resources tend to stagnate and do not develop in terms of academic graduates who are generally reluctant tot continue their studie at a higher level.

Career history and career identity: antecedents of job-field underemployment

The current article deals with the antecedents that generate a phenomenon of a mismatch between an academic graduates' field of education and their occupational field (horizontal mismatch). The two examined antecedents were the individuals' career history and their "career identity" level. It has been found that (a) the more expansive the individual's layoff history, the greater their horizontal mismatch level, and (b) the higher the individual's career identity level, the lower their horizontal mismatch level. This emphasizes the importance for academic individuals regarding investing in specific competencies, skills, and abilities throughout their career, to aid in career success.

Employability Distress: Factors Affecting ICT Graduates’ Employability and Work Integration in the Workspace

There has been an ongoing debate on the subject of graduate unemployability in South Africa and the extent to which it has affected academic graduates. The growing consensus regarding intensifying levels of graduate employability distress today is explicitly supported theoretically in a number of research studies. This is despite the considerable efforts that have historically been made concerning the graduate labour force and their probable ramifications in the context of South Africa’s far-reaching labour market issues. A number of scholars both in the past and the present have identified several issues emerging from the heterogeneity of the quality of education, graduates’ capabilities and skills competencies, higher education institutions’ involvement in the industries and employers’ requirements for employment. This study aimed to explore the views that graduates conceive about employability and stress, reason for their unemployment and identify the factor that causes them to be unemployed and decisively suggest way to address these challenges. A quantitative approach and a questionnaire were used. A total of 195 questionnaires from graduates/students in the College of Business and Economics were recovered and usable. The findings reveal a paradox in the increased level of ICT graduate unemployment and skills mismatch and shortages. This has been attributed mostly to organisational changes which may have given rise to misalignment between the skills that graduates currently have and those that employers seek from graduates. Findings suggest that the kind of education obtained, graduates’ incapability to apply the skills received and work experience are factors hindering employability.

University graduates' skills-and-employability evaluation in Poland - a case study of a faculty of management in Warsaw

The purpose of this paper was to present an attempt to build an innovative and comprehensive system of gathering and analysing reliable, accurate and up-to-date feedback on employability of academic graduates in Poland. After a literature review on the nature of the mismatch between the labour market requirements and the knowledge and skills of higher education graduates, as well as challenges connected with obtaining feedback from graduates, a case study devoted to collecting and analysing labour market stakeholders' feedback undertaken by a small faculty of a non-public academy in Warsaw, Poland is presented. A sample of 31 opinions of the faculty's graduates was gathered and analysed, in the form of an arithmetic mean, minimum and maximum values and cross-plot charts. The main conclusion of both the literature review and the case study is that the labour market highly values technical, especially IT skills and business-related soft skills, such as team-working. The two main challenges for the academic decision-makers are to develop curricula that would foster the development of the desired knowledge and skills and to build effective communication channels with all their stakeholders. A further, more comprehensive research into the matter will be worth conducting.

Is vocational education a safety net?

This article assesses the employment and occupational outcomes of upper secondary education graduates from academic and vocational tracks in Italy. In particular, we formulate and test the hypothesis that – contrary to some common expectations – academic graduates outperform vocational graduates at a stage of occupational maturity, even when considering individuals without a tertiary degree. Moreover, we explore differences between tracks by gender as well as across geographical areas and city sizes. Thanks to the detailed information available in the PLUS data, we assess labor market outcomes adjusting for a rich set of socio-demographic characteristics and for early academic performance. The results corroborate our hypothesis and indicate that the advantage of academic graduates holds across genders, areas and different city sizes.

Revenue from contracts: cash vs accrual

Learning outcomes The case provides an insight on the provisions of the IND AS 115 (largely converging with IFRS 15), financial impact of alternative accounting practices and dynamics of a revenue recognition decision. MBA students can use the knowledge derived from the case at their workplace when they encounter accounting of “revenue from a contract with customers”. Case overview/synopsis Saifudin Rehman, one of the promoter of Suprajeet Corporation (SUC) had been engaged in electrical installation contract business. The firm had been doing well in the field of small contracts and was having steady growth. People in the firm were also quite acquainted with the kind of contracts they were doing. However, Saifudin always wanted to get into a big contract business. For getting into big installation contracts, the corporation needed more working capital and needed to satisfy the criteria of having a high amount of turnover in the preceding year. The case will be looked into from the perspective of accounting procedure to see the possibility of increasing the revenue by changing the method of accounting in relation to revenue recognition. The case provided the opportunity to evaluate the benefits and the costs involved in changing the accounting method in SUC. Complexity academic level Commerce Graduates and MBA I. Supplementary materials Teaching notes are available for educators only. Subject code CSS 1: Accounting and Finance.

Educational diversity and individual pay: the advantages of combining academic and VET graduates in the workplace

This study analyzes how worker pay is related to educational diversity, i.e., diversity in the educational composition of work groups in terms of the different types of vocational and academic education. As previous research shows that various types of diversity have positive effects in the workplace, a positive effect due to ‘educational diversity’ also seems plausible. We provide novel empirical evidence on the relation between the educational diversity of work groups and productivity, or more precisely, individual workers’ pay. Using theoretical considerations drawn from diversity research, we develop hypotheses on the relation between a group’s educational diversity and individual workers’ pay. Drawing on an exceptionally large set of employer-employee data with more than 87,000 employers and 1,200,000 employees, we test our hypotheses and find that the educational diversity of work groups—and thus work groups with workers of different types of vocational and academic education—is positively related to individual workers’ pay. Thus, educational diversity in the form of a combination of academic and Vocational Education and Training (VET) graduates in the workplace seems to be advantageous for the workers involved. Our findings suggest that educational diversity is especially beneficial in groups with high levels of task complexity and shorter organizational tenure.

The effect of the School-to-Work Programme on the employment of vocationalhigh school graduates

ABSTRACT We examine the effects of the 2011 Korean School-to-Work Programme on the career choices of vocational high school students. To identify the causal impacts, we utilize the difference-in-differences method, comparing vocational high school graduates to academic high school graduates between 2011 and 2012. The results show that the policy increased the employment rate of vocational high school graduates by 36%. The proportion of graduates advancing to postsecondary education decreased by a similar magnitude, implying that the policy indeed altered the career choices of a significant number of vocational high school students, leading them to pursue employment rather than attend college.

Exploring the University-based Entrepreneurial Activities in International Collaboration: Development Cases of HEIs

Abstract Objective: This paper attempts to shed some light on the entrepreneurial university elements through the examination of two HEIs – Karelia University of Applied Sciences and Poznan University of Technology. The case study explores the prerequisites for effective result-driven entrepreneurship education and business collaboration. Furthermore, the study examines what is the potential to build joint entrepreneurial pathways for HEI students and staff in an international context within the Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership Project “Entrepreneurship and Communication in Multicultural Teams (ECMT+)”. Methodology: The nature of this exploratory case study is descriptive and data was collected using literature and reports review, participatory observation, reflection, and inference tools. The HEIs cases of practical implementation of the entrepreneurial university framework were selected with a purposeful sampling technique. The applied case study was practical orientated. Due to the small number of informants within the case and its qualitative nature, no generable conclusions can be drawn. Findings: Even as a subjective and descriptive case study, it offers an arena to explore one authentic example of a community of practice and entrepreneurial education platform promoting the systematic competence and skills development in international collaboration context. Entrepreneurial university with a true multicultural nature supports building inclusive education bridging universities with their regions and businesses. Value Added: The study reveals that the higher education has to be more inclusive and develop practices to meet the more diverse learners who may have disabilities and learning difficulties, diverse racial, cultural and linguistic backgrounds or meet with social and economic challenges. The value resulting from the research allow to state that the effective cooperation and building of entrepreneurial university practices at ECMT+ partner universities are beneficial both for students, teachers and the HEIs and they could be applied at other HEIs. Recommendations: The strategic development of higher education should be oriented to promote the entrepreneurial mindset reforming the curricula to provide academic graduates more practical skilled, multi-disciplinary and social competent to discover the entrepreneurial opportunities and boosting employability. Despite the qualitative nature of the study it may enrich the discussion on the entrepreneurial university practice.

An Empirical Study of Factors Effecting Entrepreneurial Intention among Youth

The study is focused on the stimulating features affecting the entrepreneurial intention of the academic graduates. The objective was to analyze the effect of social factors and personality features on entrepreneurial intention. The study is further focused on university students. A survey was conducted to examine the aspects affecting entrepreneurial intention with reference to social factors and personality traits of students. Data was collected from the students of Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, covering the heterogeneous population of students of different Departments of Faculties of Natural, Biological and Social Sciences. A positive relationship has been observed between independent variables like individuals personal characteristics, perception about own abilities to become an entrepreneur, influence of family and friends and dependent variable, i.e. entrepreneurial intention; however, the different aspects of study components showed a varying level of significance. The independent variables perception about qualities of an entrepreneur and career choice had an overall insignificant relationship with the intention for entrepreneurship in the present study. The statistical analysis of data indicates a significant relationship between the social factors as well as the personality features on the entrepreneurial intention among university students, and an entrepreneurs decision is influenced by different elements that associate varyingly to influence entrepreneurial intention. The consequences of this investigation demonstrate that different singular level elements associate to affect an individuals aim about entrepreneurship.

Інституційні та професійні цінності академічного персоналу університетів США

The problem of value priorities in the US universities is actualized in the paper; they traditionally show high ranking positions and make the majority among the best higher education institutions in the international education and research areas. The fundamental institutional values of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, California Institute of Technology, Harvard University and University of Wisconsin-Whitewater are revealed aimed at implementing the best American universities experience for the development of higher education system and its quality in Ukraine. It is proven that American universities function on the basis of their own academic values and have their own culture and philosophy in addition to the established institutional values, such as institutional autonomy, academic freedom and shared governance. Consolidating the mission, vision and priorities of higher education institution development the institutional values reflect the peculiarities of the university’s activities and project the moral ideal of behavior of academic staff, students and graduates, who confirm to stakeholders their competitiveness at the labor market. It is revealed that a key and integral part of professional values in the US universities is academic freedom though which historically and traditionally the defense of democratic values is considered. It is grounded that academic freedom in the American university society is a prerequisite for developing knowledge, conducting research and publishing their results, it also causes the social and institutional responsibility, in particular for compliance with ethical standards of conduct and principles of integrity. It is reveled that the practical realization of the American professor’s right for academic freedom is the right for tenured appointment, which makes it possible to work without the administrative pressure and the risk to be fired because of his unpopular views and statements. It is established that the American Association of University Professors is the founder of the American understanding of academic freedom and the advocate of the universities’ academic staff rights, including their tenure.