The present paper, developed within a research project promoted by the National Committee for the Evaluation of the University System (CNVSU, the complete report is available on www.cnvsu.it), analyses the Italian uni- versity offers, focusing on the communication adopted by the Universities to publicise their objectives and the results expected, also with respect to the potential employments. The analysed documents are the course infor- mation sheets of all the 3-year degree courses and some specialised (2- year) degree courses, contained in the OFF.F database of the Ministry of the University (MIUR) for the academic year 2005/06. The research pur- sued the following aims: 1. reading the education offer focusing mainly on the competences fore- seen for the graduates; 2. reading the foreseen job prospects for the graduates in a course; 3. analysing the consistency of the competences provided with the fore- seen employment prospects; 4. analysing the consistency between the competences acquired by the 3-year graduates and the competences offered to whom decides for continuing with a 2-year degree course specialisation. The analysis of points 1.-3. is carried out through the use of typical text – mining procedures, while for point 4. the reference is to methods developed for the analysis of multi-linguistic corpora. In section 2, a short overview on the adopted methods is presented, while in the following sections some gen- eral reflections on the topics are made, referring to the principal results for the degree in Statistics (#37), as an example.
Competences and professional options of the Italian graduates: results from the texual analysis of the degree course information data
CROCETTA, CORRADO;
2011-01-01
Abstract
The present paper, developed within a research project promoted by the National Committee for the Evaluation of the University System (CNVSU, the complete report is available on www.cnvsu.it), analyses the Italian uni- versity offers, focusing on the communication adopted by the Universities to publicise their objectives and the results expected, also with respect to the potential employments. The analysed documents are the course infor- mation sheets of all the 3-year degree courses and some specialised (2- year) degree courses, contained in the OFF.F database of the Ministry of the University (MIUR) for the academic year 2005/06. The research pur- sued the following aims: 1. reading the education offer focusing mainly on the competences fore- seen for the graduates; 2. reading the foreseen job prospects for the graduates in a course; 3. analysing the consistency of the competences provided with the fore- seen employment prospects; 4. analysing the consistency between the competences acquired by the 3-year graduates and the competences offered to whom decides for continuing with a 2-year degree course specialisation. The analysis of points 1.-3. is carried out through the use of typical text – mining procedures, while for point 4. the reference is to methods developed for the analysis of multi-linguistic corpora. In section 2, a short overview on the adopted methods is presented, while in the following sections some gen- eral reflections on the topics are made, referring to the principal results for the degree in Statistics (#37), as an example.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
