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Competitiveness and quality of higher education: graduates' evaluation Cover

Competitiveness and quality of higher education: graduates' evaluation

Open Access
|Mar 2014

Abstract

The aim of the paper is to find the competitiveness of Latvian university graduates in Latvia and the European Union labour market concerning aspects of entrepreneurship education. To achieve the purpose of this study to determine the competitive and qualitative levels of Latvian universities and necessary improvements that need to be made, a survey of 4,909 graduates (from the years 2006-2011) representing six Latvia universities was performed between November-December, 2011. Results indicate that, in general, the graduates consider themselves competitive in the Latvian labour market. The graduates have positive opinions concerning the quality of theoretical knowledge as well as the abilities to present information and to evaluate, analyse and systematise it. At the same time, there are serious improvements that are necessary in regard to entrepreneurship education and to increase the competitiveness of Latvian universities, which can be done by improving the quality of the study process, the content of courses, teaching (learning) methods and the attitudes of academic staff to better motive students to develop their skills emphasising the practical side of the study process

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jtes-2013-0011 | Journal eISSN: 1691-5534 | Journal ISSN: 1691-4147
Language: English
Page range: 52 - 66
Published on: Mar 12, 2014
Published by: Daugavpils University
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 2 issues per year

© 2014 Veronika Bikse, Baiba Rivža, Ieva Brence Latvian, published by Daugavpils University
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons License.