Accommodate employability and social good

Employability is outside the bubble of economic growth has to be regarded as a concept. Higher education would not go for the labor market, but according to the needs of society. Higher education is a human right, and as such, it must be accessible to everyone.

The European Students' Union, or ESU, recommends that unites our society in higher education, in terms of development. There is no single organization responsible for the global development of higher education. ESU will be completed only in higher education to all people at their best, provide impartial contributions to the development of a puzzle.

Consensus

Current trends in higher education have opened up a debate on the future of higher education, and we live in a society those values ​​and priorities should be based on a thorough debate.

To reach consensus and objective perspective, it is very important to her, instead of who is responsible for higher education and cooperation between all stakeholders in the discussion of who is talking about is not the focus.

ESU believes that higher education is a public good and a public responsibility. Hence the need to tell everyone what kind of society they want to build and what they want to get higher education.

Students and student representatives and influential actors are the core of higher education reform, local, national and international level.

Europe, ESU 13.5 million students, including 47 students from 39 countries are represented in the national unions. These students bring forth the policies and projects and the development of higher education to decide on future steps.

Student progress Graduates' employment, or SAGE, ESU is a project, employability and policies to defend the development of independent research and contribute to the development of education and higher education learning.

Research project, one of which, through a survey, a study of graduate employability in Europe will be published in the autumn of 2013, this study makes a clear distinction between employability and employment.

Employability is a process of learning, achievement and potential graduate to get a job is defined as the acquisition of a real job to make sure that it does not confuse the concept - even though the concept is very dependent on the environment.

What does it mean to enter the labor market?

First mentioned in the Sorbonne declaration in 1998, the employability of a harmonized European system of higher education was a key idea. However, the definition of access to the labor market has changed over time.

Bologna Declaration (19 June 1999), the labor market is the introduction of 'citizens was called employability', the Prague (19 May 2001) As was explained in the 'post-graduate employability'.

Today, higher education is a term applied to the interpretation of the different actors in the field, which has been weakened by the political discourse has created misunderstandings and confusion in the education system.

"Employability learning comes from the complex, and the 'core' and skills 'key' is a concept rather than a wider range," writes Manta Yorker Learning and Employability, a set. Values, not just value-added areas. Also, enter the labor market is not the only characteristic of a new graduate. "Throughout a person's working life should be constantly refreshed," he argues.

It is important to remember that the employability and social levels are strongly interlinked, the students develop a sense of the ways that reflect their particular situation.

This reflects the success of the education system in order to create a society in which we live, to go back to the basics and that higher education serves multiple purposes, and suggested that the Council of Europe member states must agree on:

• Preparation for the labor market.
• Preparation for active citizenship in democratic societies.
• Personal Development.
• Develop and broad, advanced knowledge base keeping.

Threats and consequences

Short-term goals, and individual performance with a focus on education as a private good, narrow definition of employment, weakening a key role higher education plays in the democratic development of society.

Hinder the development of the academic values ​​of the misconceptions about the employability of higher education, and the increased co modification and privatization within the system are a threat because they encourage.

These two concepts are very similar, and both instrumental and changes in the perception of education - its transformation into an economic factor and a means to prosperity.

If the co modification of the market in this way, higher education, being referred to the contents, privatization, while private companies related to the operational standards referred to higher education institutions.

The consequences of such an elitist approach to the threat of higher education, national education budget cuts reflect the introduction of tuition fees, and restricted access to higher education. At the same time students become a consumer or other products.

If not reported, users of the system, nor are consumers. Reform and development of higher education in their knowledge, experience and expertise will be an active partner helped.

In addition, discussions with other partners to create a common and objective approach to higher education as a tool to promote social development.

* Michael Tolentino Novena Vuksanović Frederickson and the executive committee of the Union of Students in Europe.