A good way of investigating this issue would be to find out the requirements of the job market (goal B), and check how these requirements match the requirements of enhancing intellectual potential (goal D). One way of exploring B is to develop a profile of a university graduate who has high market value in the sense that potential employers would find such a graduate an attractive employee. We can construct the profile of a marketable university graduate by finding out what kind of candidates employers are looking for.

In order to construct a profile that reflects the market forces, we require input from both potential employers and recent graduates. We need to know precisely what employers are looking for, what kinds of graduates will be successful in the job market, and what qualities lead to the rise on the career ladder. As part of this enterprise, therefore, I have been talking to various ex-graduates, as well as to people who are in a position to hire university graduates. What follows is a preliminary report of my investigation, which suggests that goals B and D point in the same direction. In other words, what the employers are looking for is precisely what enlightened educationists have been trying to achieve. If so, it is possible to have a happy convergence of all the four goals of university education.