ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses a broader investigation that combines a telephone interview of graduates and focus groups involving representatives of the academic community and external professionals. The underlying intention beneath the rather contrived social situation is not that academics fully accept the requirements that are made from outside the institution, but that they critically reflect on the new demands, the changing context and the mission of the university in the new context. The increase in demand for trained people is what provokes the extension of the educational system, of university training, which results in a change in the number and the features of the professions. The research meanwhile aims to contribute to informed decision-making by the university via the Graduate Observatory. Essentially, an assessment of the situation, employability conditions, convenience of changes in the university, and suggestions for ways of improvement were requested. When the research methodology employed is aimed at some kind of intervention the problem becomes more acute.
