Do young graduates with professional and vocational master's degrees regard themselves as competent to hold their jobs ?

Julien Calmand (1) , Jean-François Giret (2) , Philippe Lemistre (3, 1) , Boris Menard (1)

1 CEREQ - Centre d'études et de recherches sur les qualifications
2 IREDU - Institut de recherche sur l'éducation : Sociologie et Economie de l'Education
3 CERTOP - Centre d'Etude et de Recherche Travail Organisation Pouvoir

Professional and vocational courses requiring 5 years' post-secondary study are supposed to meet specific needs for competences in a given area of employment. Young graduates believe they have acquired the specific competences they think their employers require. In their view, the shortfall lies in their general competences. Is this a reason to question the increasingly vocational nature of university courses?

Mots clés: higher education; competence; vocationalisation; 2010 cohort; 5 years’ post-secondary study

Domaines: Education

Julien Calmand, Jean-François Giret, Philippe Lemistre, Boris Menard. Do young graduates with professional and vocational master's degrees regard themselves as competent to hold their jobs ?. 2016. ⟨halshs-01264109⟩