Fostering Graduate Employability: Rethinking Tanzania’s University Practices
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2021-04-13
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Sage open
Abstract
Globalization, partly spurred by technological innovation such as artificial intelligence and robotics, continues to disrupt
not only economic trajectories and business models, especially in the developed world, but also the knowledge and
skill requirements for graduates entering the labor market. A growing corpus of literature on graduates’ employability
has identified barriers to employment ranging from skills mismatch to a lack of soft skills. Although the literature on
graduate employability is informative and illuminating, the role of university practices in fostering graduate employability
in sub-Saharan Africa, and Tanzania in particular, has been less studied. Drawing on the broader employability literature,
this article provides a comprehensive analysis of the best university practices in an effort to address the unemployment
problems of university graduates in sub-Saharan Africa and Tanzania in particular. Four critical university best practices for
fostering graduate employability are of interest—developing effective university—industry partnerships, aligning university
education with a country’s development plans, regular university curriculum reviews, and strengthening quality assurance
systems. Therefore, this article contributes to the higher education literature on the role of university practices in
fostering graduate employability.
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higher education, education, social sciences, sub-Saharan Africa, Tanzania, employability, graduates