Challenges for academic career services in Mazovia

Abstract

This paper summarises the failed attempt to conduct a survey concerning the operations of academic career services in schools of higher education in Mazovia. The survey was conducted within the ‘Regional foresight for schools of higher education in Warsaw and Mazovia. Academic Mazovia 2030’ project. The author describes the reasons for Iow response rate from academic career services and the resulting consequences, i.e. unavailability of up-to-date, complete information about the status quo of such sen/ices in Mazovia. The paper invokes studies conducted by the Provincial Labour Office (Wojewódzki Urząd Pracy) in Warsaw and presents a brief portrayal of academic career sen/ices in Mazovian schools of higher education. Given the challenges to be faced by career sen/ices after the reform of higher education (their contribution in the process of adjusting the educational programmes to the needs of labour market, and to tracking the careers of graduates), it is particularly important to improve the efficiency of career sen/ices and their organisation as well as cooperation with stakeholders. It is also important for career sen/ices to conduct desk research and to collect and process data about their customers. An important challenge for career sen/ices is to inerease their participation in EU-funded projects and to improve the appeal of sen/ices offered to students and graduates.