Augmented Education and Employability: Skills, Risks, and the Transformation of Human Roles

This research aims to present original perspectives on stakeholders' perceptions of AI integration in higher education and understand how this transition could contribute to enhancing graduates' skills and employability. It adopts an integrative qualitative approach based on semi-structured interviews and focus groups with various stakeholders (teachers, experts, decision-makers, professionals, students) to which we have added contextualized scenarios.
The results indicate that AI promotes personalisation, efficiency and information accessibility, but raises concerns related to the decontextualisation of content, the cognitive dependency, the loss of human interaction and the risks of algorithmic injustice and exclusion, particularly in assessment and recruitment. The findings indicate that AI is deeply transforming teaching practices, competence requirements, and institutional processes. The study calls for stronger regulation and a “human-in-the-loop” approach to ensuring ethical and inclusive integration.

AI education, Employability, Higher education, Skills gap, Stakeholders

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