Education + Training: Volume 52 Issue 6/7

Enhancing employability in the “ME generation”

Carl Senior, Robert Cubbidge

The purpose of this paper is to place all of the contributions to this special issue into a theoretical framework and to highlight the role that the so‐called “information age…

Evaluating the skills strategy through a Graduate Certificate in Management: An experiential learning theory approach

Michael J.R. Butler, Lidia Gheorghiu

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate how a UK business school is addressing the Government's skills strategy through its Graduate Certificate in Management, and to identify…

Evaluating the impact of SPEED on students' career choices: a pilot study

Naomi R. Woodier‐Harris

The purpose of this paper is two‐fold; first, to explore the Student Placements for Entrepreneurs in Education (SPEED) programme, which aims to help students gain real business…

Higher education for a sustainable world

John Blewitt

The paper aims to explore the nature and purpose of higher education (HE) in the twenty‐first century, focussing on how it can help fashion a green knowledge‐based economy by…

An exploratory study of the achievement of the twenty‐first century skills in higher education

Ghazi Ghaith

The purpose of this paper is to present the results of a survey study of the achievement of twenty‐first century skills in higher education.

What a difference a writing centre makes: a small scale study

Rowena Yeats, Peter Reddy, Anne Wheeler, Carl Senior, John Murray

Academic writing is often considered to be a weakness in contemporary students, while good reporting and writing skills are highly valued by graduate employers. A number of…

Assessing “ME generation's” entrepreneurship degree programmes in Malaysia

Muhammad Nizam Zainuddin, Mohd Rozaini Mohd Rejab

The purpose of this paper is to assess the effectiveness of undergraduates' specialised entrepreneurship programmes in Malaysian universities that have been made available to “ME…

Teamwork: effectively teaching an employability skill

Linda Riebe, Dean Roepen, Bruno Santarelli, Gary Marchioro

The purpose of this paper is to present a case study on improvements to professional teaching practice within an undergraduate university business programme to more effectively…

Enhancing individual employability: the perspective of engineering graduates

Staffan Nilsson

Employability includes the ability to find employment and remain employed. Employability includes both hard and soft skills, including formal and actual competence, interpersonal…

Theory and practice: the experience of marketing graduates

Simon Stephens, Camelia Gabriela Balan, Shaun Callaghan

The paper aims to explore the experience of graduates in the workplace. The aim is to study how these experiences differ from the expectations of the graduates and the aspirations…