2. Summary
Project: Higher Education Reform Project
Name of the service: Higher Education Responsiveness to
Labor Market
Client: MECS through ADB
Consultant: IRIM LLC
Duration: Jan 2015 – May 2016
Core team: consists of 4 international and 4 national
consultants
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3. Core team
International consultants
D. Lkhagvasuren Labor economist, NUM and Concordia University, Canada
Vincent Costa HE specialist on program and curriculum review, USA
Stephen Duggan HE specialist on career guidance, Australia
Saha Meyanathan HE specialist on industry partnership, chief of Business
Council of Mongolia, Malaysia
National consultants
Z. Manlaibaatar Economist, team leader, IRIM
N. Batchimeg HE specialist on program and curriculum review, NUM
Ts. Tsetsegmaa HE specialist on career guidance, NUM
Ch. Tamir HE specialist on industry partnership, IRIM
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4. Objective
Provide technical assistance in designing, conducting and
analyzing:
GraduateTracer Study
Employer’s Satisfaction Survey
Labor Market Study
Provide technical assistance in preparing reports to be
used to:
Review HE programs and curriculum
Provide career information and guidance for students
Develop industry training programs and joint research
projects
Consider comments and suggestions of MECS and HEIs
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5. Developing
methodology
and tools
Meeting and
discussion
Training on
research
methodology
Jan-Apr, 2015
January 2015
Apr-Nov, 2015 Jul-Dec, 2015
Inception Survey and study Training and reporting
Pilot data collection
and analysis of:
• Graduate tracer
study
• Labor market
study
• Employer
satisfaction survey
Training and
guidance note on
• Curriculum review
• Career guidance
• Industry partnership
May, 2016
Timeline
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6. Proposal for Labor Market Survey
Labor market is crucial to HEIs
The important things to study labor market are:
Systematic data
Quality of data collection
Avoiding too complex design
Mongolian universities have experiences on that
We follow the TOR of the assignment from ADB
The main activity is to provide technical assistance
Consider comments and suggestions of MECS and
HEIs
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7. A. Graduate tracer survey
5/6/20167
Panel survey – Repeat two years later
2 times a year
In every spring, graduates of last year
In every autumn, graduates who graduated from three years ago
Year Season
2012
graduated
2013
graduates
2014
graduates
2015
graduates
2016
graduates
2015
Spring GTS-1
Autumn GTS-2
2016
Spring GTS-1
Autumn GTS-2
2017
Spring GTS-1
Autumn GTS-2
2018
Spring
Autumn GTS-2
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8. A. Graduate tracer survey
5/6/20168
The design is proposed to all HEIs
HEIs contact and interview with their all graduates
Data collection method is phone/online questionnaire
Shools prepare their own reports
MECS or NSO also will collect all data from HEIs and
do policy analysis
9. B. Employer satisfaction survey
5/6/20169
Cross sectional survey
Based on contact information of employers of
graduates (obtained during)
Review with as many as employers
In-depth interview with some major employers
10. C. Review of Labor market studies
5/6/201610
Quarterly Labor force survey, NSO
Annual Barometer survey, MOL
Annual Graduate Employment survey, MOL
Mid and long term projection for labor force demand
and supply: 2013-2023, MOL
Youth employment survey, 2015 RAND;
Survey of Informal Employment, 2013, MOL
11. Main indicators
Employment by programs
Job search duration, unemployed duration by
programs
Labor income by programs
Employers’ satisfaction by programs
Opportunities for university-industry partnership
Return of higher education
Economic return or college premium
Regional specifics
Difference between urban and rural
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12. Challenges
Cooperation with or through Institute for Labor
Study, Ministry of Labor
Cooperation with or through Education Institute,
Ministry of Education, Culture and Science
Get approval from Permanent Council of
Methodology, National Statistics Office
How much effort do HEIs make? Most HEIs have no
research capacity and resources (incentive?)
Role of private or non-government research institute
Role of Employers organizations
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