We invite education planners, teachers, specialists, researchers and developers to contribute to UAS Journal issue 4/2020. The theme of the issue is using data from work-related studies in teaching, education planning and education systems development.
Universities of applied sciences have a great deal of information about careers and employment, which they obtain from various stakeholders, employment networks and the universities of applied sciences’ own career monitoring and other feedback surveys.
This information is not, however, used to the full in teaching, education planning or national school systems development. Analysing and using career and employment data in a greater variety of ways would benefit both education organisers, teachers and students, as well as employment and public operators.
Subject of the call for papers
We are interested in how the results of national career monitoring surveys conducted by universities of applied sciences are used and implemented, but articles may also be based on other reviews concerning the impact of higher education, alumni employment and career paths or labour market development.
The articles may be related to the following subjects or questions:
- What kind of work-related data are UASs using? What kind of data is still needed?
- What kind of data is used systematically, and how is it used? What kind of data should definitely receive more attention than it currently does?
- Can/should work-related studies be viewed critically? What does this mean in practice?
- Work-related studies in proactive education and management development work
- Work-related studies as a tool for pedagogical development
- Employment quality and measuring this
- Access to work-related studies by different UAS user groups.
- Work-related studies in assessing and developing educational quality and impact
- The principle of continuing education and using information from work-related studies.
Proposed articles based on research or investigational work take priority, but disseminating comprehensive and multifaceted work-related studies and cases from practice are also of interest, especially because nationwide career monitoring surveys have only been conducted twice.
Schedule and practical guidelines
- Send your article proposal to uraseurannat(at)turkuamk.fi by Sept. 15, 2020.
- Feedback on the articles will be sent to the responsible author by Oct. 15, 2020.
- Send your final version of the article by Oct. 31, 2020.
- The themed issue will be published during the week 50.
The maximum length of a specialist article is 10,000 characters, a review 4,000 characters and less formally structured texts about 3,000 characters (incl. spaces). Detailed instructions for authors can be found on uasjournal.fi/in-english/instructions-for-writers
The editors of the themed issue are Liisa Marttila/TAMK, Jaana Kullaslahti/HAMK, Anne Rouhelo/ Turku AMK, Arja Räinä-Räsänen/Oamk, Taina Kilpinen/Laurea and Tina Lauronen/ Education and Training Research Foundation, ESR project, From UAS to Career – Career Data for All.
