Evaluation of Economic Education from Graduates’ Point of View

• Main Authors: Hana Řezanková, Renáta Kunstová
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Czech Statistical Office 2012-03-01
• Series: Statistika: Statistics and Economy Journal
• Subjects: Higher education; graduates; education evaluation; acquired competence levels; required competence levels
• Online Access: http://www.czso.cz/csu/2012edicniplan.nsf/engt/D70047D21B/$File/e-180212q1k3.pdf

The labour market expects graduates with certain levels of competences, which reflect the quality of education. In this paper we present the results of the analyses of selected indicators concerning of the education quality obtained on the basis of answers of graduates of the University of Economics, Prague. The graduates were addressed four or five years after graduation within large REFLEX surveys realized in 2006 and 2010. We compare competence levels acquired by graduates with competence levels required by employers; both types of levels were evaluated by graduates. We investigate dependency, agreement and similarity of acquired and requiredcompetence levels by different coefficients and we compare their values in the 2006 and 2010 surveys.