Unemployed Gratuates − the untapped Potential of Lublin? Cover Image

Bezrobotni absolwenci – niewykorzystany potencjał Lubelszczyzny?
Unemployed Gratuates − the untapped Potential of Lublin?

Author(s): Urszula Soler
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL & Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
Keywords: human resources; social capital; unemployment; education

Summary/Abstract: In recent years it has been talking about students as hidden unemployment, the necessity of adjustment the character of the study to the needs of the labour market and the modern economy because they paths often are not common. Governing for a long time promote very effectively the so-called “ordered studies” to encourage young people to study technical knowledge at the expense of the humanities and social studies. It is also used a specific tactics to opposing “good” technical faculties , which provide after a graduate a bright future - the “bad” one - the humanities , which according to the assurances of the ruling, generate unemployment. However, the political authorities often forget that professional success depends not only on the nature of completed studies, but also of many other items. Among the other they include human and social capital. The purpose of this article is to present the actual status and vision of the future university graduates on the example of sociology at the Catholic University of Lublin and their place in the community of Lublin.

  • Issue Year: 42/2014
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 179-200
  • Page Count: 22
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