Education + Training: Volume 61 Issue 4

A personal construct approach to employability: comparing stakeholders’ implicit theories

Stella Williams, Anatoli Karypidou, Catherine Steele, Lorna Dodd

The purpose of this paper is to adopt the perspective of personal construct theory to conceptualise employability. The study explores differences in the implicit employability…

The role of practical assessment in the delivery of successful enterprise education

Alan Murray

The purpose of this paper is to concentrate on how assessment is used to support the aims of enterprise education leading to recommendations for improvements to the current…

Articulating entrepreneurial competencies in the undergraduate curricular

Track Dinning

The purpose of this paper is to explore the level enterprise language is articulated within programme level documentation, and then, using EntreComp (Bacigalupo et al., 2016) as a…

Can students be taught to articulate employability skills?

Jill Tomasson Goodwin, Joslin Goh, Stephanie Verkoeyen, Katherine Lithgow

The purpose of this paper is to report on research findings from a teaching and learning intervention that explored whether undergraduate university students can be taught to…

Entrepreneurial intentions: trust and network ties in online and face-to-face students

Noemí Pérez-Macías, José Luis Fernández-Fernández, Antonio Rua Vieites

Based on Azjen’s (1991) theory of planned behavior, the purpose of this paper is to complement the existing body of knowledge on entrepreneurial intentions (EIs) by comparing two…

How does task-technology fit influence cloud-based e-learning continuance and impact?

Yung-Ming Cheng

According to expectation–confirmation model (ECM) and task-technology fit (TTF) model, the purpose of this paper is to examine the role of TTF in students’ cloud-based e-learning…

Students’ learning experience in a multidisciplinary innovation project

Laura-Maija Hero, Eila Lindfors

Collaboration between universities and industry is increasingly perceived as a vehicle to enhance innovation. Educational institutions are encouraged to build partnerships and…

Examining the impact of goal attainment and training goal on overall training satisfaction among vocational education and training completers

Jason Skues, Sarah-Louise Alexander, Lisa Wise

The purpose of this paper was to examine whether there is a relationship between goal attainment and overall training satisfaction among vocational education and training (VET…