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A demand-based student enrollment model for higher educational institutions
Dissertation (D. Phil.) -- University of Stellenbosch, 1996.
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| author | Bruwer, Johan de Wet |
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| spelling | oai:scholar.sun.ac.za:10019.1/54954 A demand-based student enrollment model for higher educational institutions Bruwer, Johan de Wet Fox, W. Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Economic and Busniess Management. School of Public Leadership. Universities and colleges -- South Africa -- Admission Labor economics -- South Africa College students -- Recruiting -- South Africa College attendance -- South Africa -- Planning Manpower planning -- South Africa College graduates -- Employment -- South Africa Dissertations -- Public and development management Dissertation (D. Phil.) -- University of Stellenbosch, 1996. The more suggestion or implication that the notion of climbing the socioeconomic ladder through more (higher) education is incorrect or has approached its limits, is not easily accepted. However, imbalances between the occupational composition of graduate personpower supply have become a reality in South Africa. Consequently first-destination graduate jobseekers in particular, are becoming increasingly unemployed or underemployed for varying periods of time. To reduce the damaging consequences of this scenario on higher educational institutions, a new paradigm, student enrollment management, has emerged. A literature study undertaken, revealed that previous student enrollment models did not incorporate labour market demand as a component and were, as a result, limited in both their scope of application and effectiveness. A model was therefore developed that is demand-based and in which the higher educational institution applying it controls both the size and composition of its student enrollment, aligning it with labour market realities, thus ensuring the maximum benefits to all its stakeholders. Certain of the economic and business management sciences were used as illustrative example of the likelihood of first-destination graduate employment. The demand for first-destination graduate jobseekers is a function of specific macro and micro structural employment demand factors and can be calculated by means of a compilation of the critical indicator findings expressed in formula format. Job specifications, specifying various requirements for conducting job functions is a key factor. However, prior work experience is the most important indicator of the likelihood of first-destination graduate employment. Another key indicator is inter-regional migration. On average, only 60% of graduates find permanent employment in the service region of their university or technikon. Business establishments that employ graduates are in general large concerns (average = 59 employees), with a long operational history, mainly in the trade and industrial sectors. Less than half (44%) of all business establishments employ graduate personpower which accounts for a mere 13% of their total labour forces. The average required work experience to perform all of the establishments' job functions varies between 2.0 and 3.98 years, while the average preferred graduate age group is between 24.3 to 33.1 years. First-destination graduates are thus either unemployed or underemployed, not because the are educated, but because they are young and inexperienced. Of the seven academic fields investigated, only two - tourism management and real estate management - were so-called 'undersupplied' meaning that first-destination graduate employment prospects were excellent. In the marketing management, human resources management, public relations management, and public management and administration fields, a heavy 'oversupply' situation exists and first-destination employment prospects are grave, varying between 31% to a mere 10%. The higher educational institutions investigated in the study, thus do not apply student enrollment management, least of all with a demand-based objective as rationale, proving the stated hypothesis. Furthermore, in not a single of the academic fields graduate output even closely matched graduate employment demand, the total absorption factor for all the graduates only being 50.1%. Market forces alone cannot be relied upon to correct these imbalances and it is therefore the responsibility of the institutions through the application of the demand-based student enrollment model. Doctoral 2012-08-27T11:36:49Z 2012-08-27T11:36:49Z 1996 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/54954 en_ZA Stellenbosch University 750 pages application/pdf Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University |
| spellingShingle | Universities and colleges -- South Africa -- Admission Labor economics -- South Africa College students -- Recruiting -- South Africa College attendance -- South Africa -- Planning Manpower planning -- South Africa College graduates -- Employment -- South Africa Dissertations -- Public and development management Bruwer, Johan de Wet A demand-based student enrollment model for higher educational institutions |
| title | A demand-based student enrollment model for higher educational institutions |
| title_full | A demand-based student enrollment model for higher educational institutions |
| title_fullStr | A demand-based student enrollment model for higher educational institutions |
| title_full_unstemmed | A demand-based student enrollment model for higher educational institutions |
| title_short | A demand-based student enrollment model for higher educational institutions |
| title_sort | demand based student enrollment model for higher educational institutions |
| topic | Universities and colleges -- South Africa -- Admission Labor economics -- South Africa College students -- Recruiting -- South Africa College attendance -- South Africa -- Planning Manpower planning -- South Africa College graduates -- Employment -- South Africa Dissertations -- Public and development management |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/54954 |
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