Don’t expect too much from ‘After Diploma Surveys` Cover Image

Óvatosan a diplomás pályakövetés elvárásaival
Don’t expect too much from ‘After Diploma Surveys`

Author(s): Éva Berde
Subject(s): Labor relations, Higher Education , Evaluation research, Socio-Economic Research
Published by: Akadémiai Kiadó
Keywords: Hungarian Higher Education; Post Graduation survey;

Summary/Abstract: This article shows that ‘After Diploma Surveys` results (surveys aimed at ex-students) regarding their alma mater must be accepted with caution. Answers could be biased, for two reasons: firstly about 60-80% of people choose not to return questionnaires while some of them probably do so because of their bad opinion of their alma mater. Secondly, the bias may be caused by the large time lag between the university studies of respondents and data collection. Also, Hungarian Higher Education regulations have changed so frequently in the last twenty years that answers appearing in the survey will most likely be referring to a situation that is different from the now-existing one. General results from such surveys reveal that the labor market offers benefits to persons with a university degree. Present types of ‘Post Graduation Survey` give a new perspective: they are delivered by individual universities but with a common central block of questions along with other university-related questions; in addition, answers to the central block of these questionnaires are collected not only in local institutional databases but also in a central data bank.

  • Issue Year: 19/2010
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 448-459
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Hungarian