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March 2012
ARTICLES
- Gender differences in graduate labour market outcomes: ten years on
The workplace behaviour of the group of females with higher studies is different to that of females with lower levels of education (see table 3). The inactivity rate for females aged between 25 and 54 with lower levels of education is 21% and an employment rate of 63%, whereas the females surveyed had an inactivity rate of 2.5% and an employment rate of 93%. Education narrows the differences in professional achievement between males and females. From this it can be deduced that the differences between males and females in the general population cannot be extrapolated to those between male and female university graduates.
Anna Prades Nebot - Project manager of AQU - Winddat, a tool for monitoring recognised degree programmes and awards
Winddat is a teaching indicators website for the development and analysis of degree programmes that was designed and developed within the context of the VSMA Framework for the ex-ante accreditation, monitoring, modification and accreditation of recognised degree programmes as a support tool for quality assurance of the development of university programmes of study. Winddat presents evidence in the form of uniform indicators for academic outcomes, the university admissions pre-registration process (preinscripció), resource availability, teaching staff, employers and graduate labour market outcomes, amongst other things, all of which is necessary evidence for system diagnosis and drawing up proposals for enhancement and corrective measures for the programmes of study offered by universities in Catalonia.
Carina Àlvarez Ramos and David Gassiot Andreu - Project Manager and Head of the IT unit of AQU
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