in the new quality evaluation system labour market aspects are quite prominent which is manifested in the increasing importance of alumni surveys and the composition of external assessment panels hogskoleverket for instance the times higherqs world university ranking adopts graduate employability as one of the indicators however this accounts for only of the overall ranking an impact which is negligible compared to the high weight given to research quality de weert the perception that the demand for skills is rapidly changing across oecd countries has spurred attempts to predict which sectors and occupations are most likely to expand in the years to come