Conferences

Dissemination and Deliverables

• The concept and methodology of the project "Higher Education and Graduate Employment" was reported upon suggestion by the Austrian government at the Meeting of the Directors General of Higher Education (ministries of education of the European Union) and Heads of Rectors‘ Conference in Vienna on 28-29 October 1998. This meeting served to examine the potentials of statistics and surveys on graduate employment and work. The participants suggested to present the results of the project at a later stage to the Meeting.
• The questionnaire "Higher Education and Employment" was made known to many institutions of higher education. Some institutions in Germany and Spain accepted the invitation of conducting a survey of their "alumni" in association with the European study. The project eventually will revise the questionnaire in order to make it known as a model questionnaire for use by individual institutions.
• The questionnaire also was employed in consulting researchers and agencies outside Europe interested in undertaking graduate surveys, e.g. the Chinese Ministry of Education in December 1999 (World Bank Project on Science and Engineering Teaching) and the Association of African Universities in September 2000 (training programme of higher education researchers in Africa).
• A seminar took place in Tokyo on 30 May, 2000 (CHEERS Euro-Japanese Workshop), where the authors of the Japanese country report discussed their draft with some team members from 4 countries participating in the project.

Conferences

• Japanese-European Comparison on Higher Education and Graduate Employment, 2 June 2000, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
• "La formación y el empleo de los universitarios en Espana y en Europa", 11-13 September 2000, Santander, Spain;
• Trends in Graduate Employment: how do British Graduates Compare?", 24 January 2001, Centre for Higher Education Research and Information, London, United Kingdom
• "Sevilla, 2005"

• As a start of international presentations of the project, a special panel "Transition from Higher Education to Work" with 8 speakers of the project from 4 countries was reserved at the 12th World Congress of the International Industrial Relations Association (IIRA), 29 May-2 June 2000, Tokyo, Japan.
• Presentations of the results began at various national and international expert conferences on higher education, labour market, current societal changes, etc. Among others, the co-ordinator of the project presented the results at four international conferences in Germany, the United Kingdom and South Africa.
• The project also serves as a basis for information in the framework of teaching in the doctoral or advanced training programmes on higher education. For example, it formed the basis of one-day or two-day training seminars held by the project co-ordinator in February 2000 in Budapest (jointly arranged by the University of Debrecem and the Hungarian Institute for Educational Research) and in February 2001 in Bern (jointly arranged by the universities of Bern and Lausanne).