Graduate employability has become a central part of the policy debate on the relevance and value of higher education in Europe, often associated with meeting the economic demands of society. This has led to a sense of institutional vulnerability to the vagaries of market forces and public opinion, leading some higher education institutions to adopt narrow and reductive approaches to engaging with graduate employability in response. Yet such responses are not inevitable. This article deploys Foucault’s notion of parrhesia to argue that the vulnerability experienced by institutions represents an opportunity to engage with the truth of graduate employability. By conceiving of employability as the pursuit of self-transformation, institutions are able to induce students to problematise their own employability. In doing so, the possibility exists of disrupting narrow conceptions of employability and of opening up myriad possibilities of being.

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争取毕业生就业能力

毕业生的就业能力已成为有关欧洲高等教育的相关性和价值的政策辩论的中心部分，通常与满足社会的经济需求有关。这导致了一种制度上的脆弱感，难以适应市场力量和公众舆论的变幻莫测，导致一些高等教育机构采取狭窄和简化的方法来应对毕业生的就业能力。然而，这种回应并非不可避免。本文运用了福柯的稀缺概念，认为机构所经历的脆弱性代表了一个与毕业生就业能力真相接触的机会。通过将就业能力构想为自我转变的追求，机构可以诱使学生对自己的就业能力提出问题。在这样做，