ABSTRACT
This chapter argues disadvantaged and face potentially damaging consequences as a result of the discourse of employability, which puts the emphasis on individual responsibility, and takes insufficient account of social inequalities. The lack of employability skills among Malaysian graduates is being used to justify increasing government involvement in Higher Education (HE) in the context of policy making in order to bring about reform in the HE sector for national economic development. The fact that government and other stakeholders are now addressing the problems faced by graduates in obtaining employment marks a dynamic shift in the relationship between universities, the jobs market and future economic growth. The main document from which the extracts are drawn is The National Graduate Employability Blueprint (2012), which expounds an ambitious government reform agenda on graduate employability (GE) published in November 2012 after extensive consultations with key participants from public and private sectors.
