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Higher education, graduate skills and the skills of graduates : the case of graduates as residential sales estate agents
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Tholen, G., James Relly, S., Warhurst, Christopher and Commander, J. (2016) Higher education, graduate skills and the skills of graduates : the case of graduates as residential sales estate agents. British Educational Research Journal, 42 (3). pp. 508-523. doi:10.1002/berj.3222 ISSN 0141-1926.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/berj.3222
Abstract
The UK labour market is subject to significant graduatisation. Yet in the context of an over-supply of graduates, little is known about the demand for and deployment of graduate skills in previously non-graduate jobs. Moreover, there is little examination of where these skills are developed, save an assumption in higher education. Using interviews and questionnaire data from a study of British residential sales estate agents, this article explores the demand, deployment and development of graduate skills in an occupation that is becoming graduatised. These data provide no evidence to support the view that the skills demanded and deployed are those solely developed within higher education. Instead what employers require is a wide array of predominantly soft skills developed in many different situs. These findings suggest that, in the case of estate agents, what matters are the ‘skills of graduates’ rather than putative ‘graduate skills’.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB2300 Higher Education |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Institute for Employment Research | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Skilled labor, Real estate agents, Real estate agents--Education, Education, Higher, Graduate students, Labor market | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | British Educational Research Journal | ||||||||
Publisher: | Routledge | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0141-1926 | ||||||||
Official Date: | June 2016 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 42 | ||||||||
Number: | 3 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 508-523 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1002/berj.3222 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 15 December 2015 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 10 February 2018 |
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