Building professional graduates through lifelong learning Behjat, Nura, Geoghegan, Noel, McClymont, Hoda, Volkov, Michael and Gardiner, Michael 2006, Building professional graduates through lifelong learning, International journal of pedagogies and learning, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 47-56. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Building professional graduates through lifelong learning Author(s) Behjat, Nura Geoghegan, Noel McClymont, Hoda Volkov, Michael orcid.org/0000-0002-2459-4515 Gardiner, Michael Journal name International journal of pedagogies and learning Volume number 2 Issue number 1 Start page 47 End page 56 Publisher University of Southern Queensland, Faculty of Education Place of publication Toowoomba, Qld. Publication date 2006-06 ISSN 1833-4105 Summary With rapid changes across the world bringing new dynamics and  expectations to daily lives and workplace practices, increasingly workers, employees and organisations are being required quickly to adapt to and adopt new ideas. However, some employers are claiming that, despite the positive rhetoric of current education systems, the skills and attributes needed for success in the contemporary working world are not forthcoming from educational systems. A key ingredient emerging as a new vision to address the existing gap between rhetoric and practice appears to be the development of the skills for lifelong learning. Data collected from 102 employers in Queensland's marketing industries are examined in this paper to illuminate the interface between employers' expectations of business graduates and Queensland's tertiary education system. As a result of this examination, it appears that what the employers desired from graduates was in line with lifelong learning skills at university level, but there is an apparent lack of provision for developing such skills at that level. Language eng Field of Research 130299 Curriculum and Pedagogy not elsewhere classified Socio Economic Objective 970113 Expanding Knowledge in Education HERDC Research category C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal Copyright notice ©2006, University of Southern Queensland, Faculty of Education Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30009101 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Arts and Education Faculty of Health School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences Higher Education Research Group   Link to Related Work Building professional graduates through lifelong learning (deposited 13-12-2021) University of Southern Queensland, Faculty of Education Publisher (deposited 16-02-2012)   Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Wed, 04 Feb 2009, 11:45:05 EST Fri, 28 May 2010, 15:40:50 EST Thu, 03 Jun 2010, 10:01:50 EST Fri, 17 Feb 2012, 09:43:07 EST Fri, 23 Nov 2012, 10:42:13 EST Tue, 14 Oct 2014, 07:37:10 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 867 Abstract Views, 6 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Mon, 13 Oct 2008, 15:51:08 EST