A Matching The Proportion Of The Distribution Of The Teaching Load For Knowledge, Skills And Abilities With The Proportion Required By Employers In The Labor Market

Session

Education and Development

Description

This paper focuses on graduates of university programs in Kosovo and the type of Learning Outcomes achieved at the end of their studies. In this regard, it mainly scrutinizes the business requests and university offers regarding the ratio of teaching workload to knowledge on the one hand and skills / abilities on the other. In order to analyze the compatibility of business demand between what universities offer, in the ratio of teaching workload between knowledge and skills, there was used at a large extent the quantitative approach, collecting data through questionnaires for samples of two groups (businesses and universities). Therefore, data were obtained through a questionnaire in the period September - December 2019, from 254 respondents from businesses and 63 respondents from universities / colleges in Kosovo. In the meantime, the descriptive analysis of data and empirical findings are also analyzed, as well as the results of which have been depicted from statistical tests. In this perspective, it is worth noting that the results of the empirical findings indicate a discrepancy between the ratio of teaching workload between the knowledge and skills offered by university programs and those required by employers and the labor market. Obviously, there has been witnessed a big difference between the demands of businesses regarding this distribution of workload and what universities offer in their undergraduate programs. Meanwhile, 73% of respondents from the sample of universities stated that their institutions offer more knowledge than skills in the curricula of programs. Whereas, 70.9% of businesses require that university programs, teaching workloads shall be in compliance with the ratio between knowledge and skills / abilities. Moreover, 3.6% of respondents from the business sample agree with what university programs offer, concerning this issue.

Keywords:

Labor market; Teaching workload; Knowledge / skills /ability; Businesses.

Session Chair

Alma Lama

Session Co-Chair

Feride Lohaj

Proceedings Editor

Edmond Hajrizi

ISBN

978-9951-437-96-7

Location

Lipjan, Kosovo

Start Date

31-10-2020 10:45 AM

End Date

31-10-2020 12:15 PM

DOI

10.33107/ubt-ic.2020.137

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A Matching The Proportion Of The Distribution Of The Teaching Load For Knowledge, Skills And Abilities With The Proportion Required By Employers In The Labor Market

Lipjan, Kosovo

This paper focuses on graduates of university programs in Kosovo and the type of Learning Outcomes achieved at the end of their studies. In this regard, it mainly scrutinizes the business requests and university offers regarding the ratio of teaching workload to knowledge on the one hand and skills / abilities on the other. In order to analyze the compatibility of business demand between what universities offer, in the ratio of teaching workload between knowledge and skills, there was used at a large extent the quantitative approach, collecting data through questionnaires for samples of two groups (businesses and universities). Therefore, data were obtained through a questionnaire in the period September - December 2019, from 254 respondents from businesses and 63 respondents from universities / colleges in Kosovo. In the meantime, the descriptive analysis of data and empirical findings are also analyzed, as well as the results of which have been depicted from statistical tests. In this perspective, it is worth noting that the results of the empirical findings indicate a discrepancy between the ratio of teaching workload between the knowledge and skills offered by university programs and those required by employers and the labor market. Obviously, there has been witnessed a big difference between the demands of businesses regarding this distribution of workload and what universities offer in their undergraduate programs. Meanwhile, 73% of respondents from the sample of universities stated that their institutions offer more knowledge than skills in the curricula of programs. Whereas, 70.9% of businesses require that university programs, teaching workloads shall be in compliance with the ratio between knowledge and skills / abilities. Moreover, 3.6% of respondents from the business sample agree with what university programs offer, concerning this issue.