Higher Education and the World of Work: New Relationship Through Bologna Process

Abstract

This paper builds on contemporary discourse on the response of higher education institutions to the needs of society. It reflects on the changing strategic paradigm in the field of higher education within the modern socio-economic context. The paper focuses on the redefinition of the relationship between employers and higher education, encouraged by the Bologna Process. The employability of graduates as the basic link between the world of work and higher education is examined with particular attention on the role and importance of employers as stakeholders in higher education. The findings of the paper are compared with the actual stage of implementation of the Bologna Process at the University of Prishtinë/Priština.