Education + Training: Volume 49 Issue 5

The implications of contemporary cultural diversity for the hospitality curriculum

Niamh Hearns, Frances Devine, Tom Baum

This viewpoint paper aims to assess a curriculum response within a specific vocational sector, hospitality, driven by the recent surge in intra EU labour migration and the ensuing…

“Making schools practical”: Practice firms and their function in the full‐time vocational school system in Germany

Thomas Deissinger

To provide information and insight into the potential of reforms in full‐time vocational education and training (VET) (practice firms in vocational colleges) in contrast with…

Students' perceptions of the effects of term‐time paid employment

Susan Curtis

Owing to increasing debts and lack of parental contribution to undergraduates' income, UK students are taking paid employment during term time in order to finance their studies…

“And never the twain shall meet”: Investigating the hospitality industry‐education relationship in Cyprus

Anastasios Zopiatis, Panikkos Constanti

The primary purpose is to investigate the relationship between hospitality education and the industry of Cyprus as it relates to students' internship practices. The mismatch…

Utilizing virtual teams in a management principles course

Julie B. Olson‐Buchanan, Paula L. Rechner, Rudolph J. Sanchez, James M. Schmidtke

The purpose of this paper is to describe development of a component in a management principles course to develop university students' virtual team skills. There were several…