The output of the university education process is a graduate with a degree qualification and certain abilities, which should qualify him or her for activities in the ICT sector. The level and skills profile should be relevant to the labour market requirements. Therefore the graduate qualification should be described as a set of abilities required to exercise the profession, rather than just listing the knowledge acquired in the education process. The main stakeholders here are university professors, representatives from the profession (e.g. industry), industrial and professional associations, accreditation bodies, government, and not least the students themselves.
The ICT Consortium recommends that university professors organise a second loop of permanent communication between the stakeholders especially local employers though they may in fact be global operators, in order to adjust the outcomes to the needs of the profession continuously, to keep the outcomes up-to-date, and to increase the employability of their graduates on an on-going basis. A valuable input for defining the outcomes of ICT curricula are the core Generic Skills Profiles established by the Career Space ICT Consortium.
