G. Clark et M. Higgitt, GEOGRAPHY AND LIFELONG LEARNING - A REPORT ON A SURVEY OF GEOGRAPHY GRADUATES, Journal of geography in higher education, 21(2), 1997, pp. 199-213
Previous studies have revealed what employers have said they require i
n terms of career or transferable skills in their prospective employee
s when they leave university. This paper reports on a survey of groups
of geographers who graduated one, Jive and 10 years ago from two diff
erent British institutions of higher education. The students identifie
d the features of their geography training which had been of most valu
e to them in their careers and pinpointed aspects which could have bee
n better developed in their degree courses. Conclusions are drawn abou
t the future of the geography curriculum in the light of the graduates
' views on their 'graduateness' and their likely career patterns in th
e 21st century.