Arts Graduates, Their Skills and Their Employment: Perspectives for Change

Originally published in 1992, this book was the first to gather together the view of industrialists, teachers and researchers. It focusses on the skills dimension of arts graduates which carry significant implication for all undergraduate programmes. It examines how the humanities and the world of work interact and how the relationship might be shaped in the future as the United Kingdom moved rapidly to a system of mass higher education. This book will be of use to all those responsible for enabling the new graduate of whatever subject to develop their skills and marketability to the full.

Heather Eggins is a Visiting Professor at Staffordshire University, and at Strathclyde University UK. She is a Fellow Commoner of Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge. Her research interests are in a range of aspects of higher education policy and strategy, including access issues and skills. She was a Fulbright New Century Scholar, and, apart from teaching in higher education, has served as Director of the Society for Research into Higher Education, and a consultant to UNESCO. She has considerable editorial experience, and her many books include, as editor and contributor, The Changing Role of Women in Higher Education: Academic and Leadership Issues; Access and Equity: Comparative Perspectives, and (co-authored with Anna Smolenseva and Hans de Wit), Higher Education in the Next Decade: Global Challenges, Future Prospects.