HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS RESPONSE ON LABOUR MARKET NEEDS

ABSTRACT Global as well as domestic economic situations have a significant impact on the labour market. In doing so, the higher education institutions awareness of the current situation is crucial. Although we know that it is impossible to foresee every situation in the economic field, both, abroad as well as in our country, several different approaches to solve this situation occur. Approaches are reflected in the higher education institutions response in terms of the different number of offered study places, they try to improve specific competencies or study programmes and to issue deficient study programmes. The higher education institution's standard of success is quality assurance. One of the indicators of the quality assurance in higher education institution is also the employability of its graduates. Regarding to the current state of employability of young people, the interest was to find out how higher education institutions contribute to the employability of their graduates or how they do adapt the needs of the labour market. The contribution in this paper is to present some options of traceability of university graduates and used it as an indicator of the quality assurance of higher education institution and to supplement existing mechanisms in response to the movement of higher education institutions in the labour market. For employability of the graduates is also crucial cooperation and connection between labour market and higher education institutions. Keywords labour market, higher education institution, unemployment