Linkages between higher education and the labour market: lessons from redemocratized Hungary

This research examines how higher education graduates in redemocratized countries, such as Hungary, receive information from multinational corporations regarding employment opportunities. It also assesses how the information exchange between higher education and the labour market, i.e. multinational corporations, shapes new relationships between these two entities. The findings from this study seem to suggest that multinational corporations have influenced Hungarian higher education institutions in several profound ways: (1) the redefinition of graduate recruitment procedures, (2) the shift in employee characteristics that employers value, (3) the implications for curricular design and teaching styles, and (4) the ranking and prestige of universities. The results of this study are not only useful for countries in transition to a market economy but for other countries as well.

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Kassie Freeman

Kassie Freeman is Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership, Peabody College, Vanderbilt University, USA. She has researched and published in the field of the economics of career counselling.