Effective practices in academic support services in Greek public universities : preliminary findings from career services
Part of : MIBES Transactions : international journal ; Vol.1, No.1, 2007, pages 130-143
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The modern university has to respond to new data and meet new challenges that arise in our days. It must respond to the developments that determine the new conditions that are shaped within the national and international environment. New techniques in the field of information, the widening of research sources, the broadness of new issues, the need to avoid partiality of knowledge and the adoption of a documented multi-disciplinary approach are only a few parts of the components of the new conditions, to which a university has to adjust. University's administrative and organizational services should support the goals and missions of the institutions to which it belongs. Academic support services such as Career Services have to be shaped by a new philosophy and emphasize the creation of two-way relationships between students and market stakeholders parallel with traditional programs, in order to be able to contribute to the planning of a curriculum of knowledge and practical training for their students. The participation of students and market stakeholders in such activities will create a "win-win" synergy, in practice and not only in theory, for the purpose of creating interactive relationships. Career Services function as a bridge between theory and practice and as a facilitator of career advancement for full-time employment in the future. This paper describes the preliminary findings of a research project that is being currently conducted with the purpose of identifying effective practices in academic support services such as Career Services from both Greek Public and foreign Universities. The research is based on a questionnaire comprising both quantitative and qualitative criteria, followed by: a semi-structured interview, collected documents from the corresponding administrator/directors, in order to identify and describe effective academic support practices, and web resources with an international approach.
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higher education, student services, career offices, Greek public universities, best practices
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