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Employability and Higher Education: The case study of ESTM master's degree
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The labor market in this globalized world, based on new technologies, is constantly changing. In an
increasingly demanding and dynamic world of human resources competences, young people have to
focus on their training in order to enter in the labor market better prepared and thus contribute to the
success of the entity that receives them and for their own professional and personal fulfillment. The
choice of their academic journey is crucial to ensure the achievement of these competences and make
that decision is not easy, with a system of higher education such as the Portuguese, where there are so
many graduation courses and two systems of teaching, University and Polytechnic. In fact, with the
changes introduced in higher education by the so-called Bologna Process, most undergraduate’s
courses saw the number of years reduced from five to three years, while others opted for integrated
master's degrees. In the case of the School of Tourism and Maritime Technology, the option was to offer
three-year degree courses and two-year master's degrees. This study intends to understand where are
the students who have bet on their training at the master's level and finish their master's degree at the
School of Tourism and Maritime Technology (ESTM) of the Polytechnic of Leiria, if they are working in
the area and if the employers recognize these qualifications.
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Viana, A., Pais, S., Sousa, A., Schön, M. (2019), Employability and Higher Education: The case study
of ESTM master's degree”. In EDULEARN19 Proceedings, pages: 399-407. (ISBN: 978-84-09-12031-
4. ISSN: 2340-1117). Conference name: 11th annual International Conference on Education and New
Learning Technologies. Conference held in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, 1st-3rd of July, 2019.
DOI:10.21125/edulearn.2019.0139