"Research and Research in Practice" Teaching within Higher Education: Graduates, Employers, and Higher Education Face-to-Face to the Competitive Job Market Requirements

Abstract

The Higher Education (HE) sector needs to reinvent itself accordingly to meet tomorrow's demand of competitive labor market requirements with modern skills and knowledge. It means it is necessary to examine various approaches required to the changes in the education process, and the job markets, that promote students' knowledge improvement to understand and respond to job markets' requirements. The HE sector must be concerned with fostering modern modes of teaching triangle (T-L-R) in the context of the modern job market requirements. The research is based on an analysis of "Research and Research in Practice" through academics, graduates, and MA students' visions and attempts to choose the main aspects that are affecting to develop of creativity and logical thinking of students in accordance with the modern labor markets and to find new educational trends by subject area of specialism with the statements/indicators. The research considers an approach to find modern higher educational trends by subject area with the statements/indicators of today's competitive job market requirements. The higher education sector needs to respond to the fast development of Information Technology (IT) and the modern job markets. Study shows visible results that the needed professional skills creation is required to adapt and transform the teaching of research by the subject's area of specialism that will form graduates' practical, logical, analytical skills and creativity. The central aspect of this approach is to be formulated as follows: responding to the modern competitive job market requirements and developing integration of competencies of "Research and Research in Practice" for the expected professional level. Research methodology considers the following steps: preparing an online questionnaire with statements/indicators for the three categories of respondents (academics, graduates, MA students), using the Likert Scale, and data processing with STATA. According to the research results, the problems and their solving for graduates' employment according to the modern job market requirements are visible that the needed professional skills creation is the transformation of the teaching of research into the teaching "Research and Research in Practice" by the subjects area of specialism.