Voices of Experience: Renewing Higher Education with Alumni Studies

This paper presents an alumni researchstudy as a model for assessing how well highereducation prepares graduates for changing professionaland labour market realities. Results revealed that,while alumni valued the innovative curriculum, theyrecommended increased focus on functional skills; morebalance between team work and individual work; andexpansion of the programme's area of specialisation. Policy recommendations advocated strengthening theemphasis on functional skills; intensifying the rigourof technical and financial coursessemi; linking thefaculty as mentors to students for career developmentsemi;and expanding the school's reputation for excellencein finance as well as in entrepreneurship.