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Graduate tracking : a 'how to do it well' guide.

4 Jun 2020

This guide aims to support country officials to develop or strengthen their measures for tracking their graduates. It includes effective practice in conducting graduate surveys and using administrative data. The Commission’s New Skills Agenda for Europe (2016) emphasised the need for countries to have a ‘better understanding of the performance of graduates’. To achieve this, the Commission proposed a new initiative on: ‘graduate tracking to improve information on how graduates progress in the labour market’. The Council Recommendation on tracking graduates (2017) was subsequently issued. It proposed “making progress by 2020 on the establishment of graduate tracking systems” and set out how they should be implemented. The Recommendation acknowledges that initiatives and systems for collecting information about leavers of higher and vocational education and training could benefit from improvement and standardisation. The ability to track graduates is also considered a core component of effective Quality Assurance systems as it provides a mechanism for gathering intelligence on skills utilisation in the labour market and placement rates. This is recommended in both the Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in the European Higher Education Area (ESG), the European Quality Assurance Framework for Vocational Education and Training (EQAVET) and reinforced by the European Framework for Quality and Effective Apprenticeships.
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Authors

Directorate-General for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture, European Commission, ICF Consulting

Catalogue Number
NC-01-20-251-EN-N
Creator
Publications Office of the European Union
DOI
https://doi.org/10.2766/263936
ISBN
9789276181323
Published in
Belgium
Rights
© European Union

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