A quarterly publication of AQU Catalunya
One of the great challenges facing the future is to train students in digital skills and artificial intelligence.
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One of the objectives of university education is to improve the employability of graduates, and one way to guarantee this is to bring university education closer to the needs of the country's productive forces. To this end, since 2014, AQU Catalunya has been surveying the opinions of employers through a three-yearly Employers Study. Although the survey changes slightly with each new edition, its core blocks remain the same, seeking to identify the following: (i) the factors that influence the recruitment of recent graduates, (ii) the possible recruitment issues facing companies and organisations and the reasons for those difficulties, (iii) based on the employers' experience, the skills that could be improved during university education and (iv) employers' overall satisfaction with the skills of the recent graduates they have hired. It should be noted that in the third edition of the study, 3,042 responses were received from companies and organisations that had interacted with the university world, either by hiring recent graduates or hosting students on internships.
Within the framework of this study, AQU Catalunya has recently published its Employability and University Education in the Field of Law report, which provides a cross-cutting overview of the employability of law graduates, specifically those with bachelor's degrees in law and master's degrees in advocacy. Data reflecting the opinions of different stakeholders in regard to the employability and training of graduates is collected and analysed through surveys on satisfaction levels, employment outcomes and the opinion of the employer community. In addition, basic data is collected on the degrees analysed.
The most noteworthy findings in the report are as follows.
Why did they choose to study law? How satisfied are they with their studies overall? Would they choose the same degree again?
What is the experience of law graduates in terms of finding employment three years after completing their studies? How do they feel about their working conditions? Could their employment outcomes have been improved by the acquisition of a particular skill during their studies?
Which factors most influence recruitment? Have they had difficulties when hiring? Which competences could be improved in law degrees and master's degrees in advocacy? Which skills do they work on in internships?
In addition, the survey asks which skills will be needed in the future field of Law. Digitisation and artificial intelligence will be the most important challenges in the coming years.