Higher Education, Skills and Work-Based Learning
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Signalling new opportunities? An analysis of UK job adverts for degree apprenticeships
Khristin Fabian, Ella Taylor-Smith, Sally Smith, Andrew BrattonThe purpose of this study is to gain insight into the degree apprenticeship labour market and employers' strategies for apprenticeship recruitment using job advertisement…
The role of social media engagement and emotional intelligence in successful employment
Olusoyi Richard Ashaye, Ali B. Mahmoud, Afzal Sayed Munna, Nurhanisah AliThis paper focusses on demonstrating the role of social media engagement and considering emotional intelligence (hereafter EI) as a critical concept to successful…
A theory-based approach to model entrepreneurial intentions: exploring the role of creativity, proactive personality and passion
Rakesh Kumar, Shalini ShuklaThis study aims to examine the role of creativity and proactive personality to predict entrepreneurial intentions (EIs) using Ajzen’s (1991) theory of planned behaviour as…
Workforce's crisis-induced career shock, career preferences, job insecurity, layoff and perceived employability: examining variations based on gender, education level and ethnic origin
Salima Hamouche, Christiane Liliane Kammogne, Wassila MerkoucheThe COVID-19 crisis caused a high level of job insecurity, layoff and low employment opportunities. It generated a worldwide shock, which might have a long-lasting effect…
You have to pay to play: housing costs and barriers to participation for student interns
Ashley AlteriMany low-income students are unable to participate in internship programs because they lack financial resources to pay for the cost of housing and relocating to the…
Integrating higher degree education with practice: exploring the value proposition of executive MBA apprenticeships
Marian Evans, L. Martin CloutierThe study aims to explore how the collective representations of stakeholders associated with an Executive MBA (EMBA) apprenticeship are conceptualised, and what value…
Global collaboration in teaching root cause analysis with healthcare professional students
Holly Hampe, Diane Frndak, Claire KydonakiThe purpose of this paper is to describe an example of how universities can develop unique synchronous educational opportunities to engage students in an online…
Post-pandemic adopted learning approach to promote architectural education: statistical approach
Basma N. El-Mowafy, Asmaa M. HassanOnline learning has many limitations in studio-based courses, such as architectural design courses, considering the challenges during post-pandemic. Therefore, this study…
Investigating forms of graduate capital and their relationship to perceived employability: an application of PLS predict and IPMA
Shikha Agnihotri, Atul Shiva, Farha Naz KhanThe study aims to assess the relationship between cultural capital, human capital, psychological capital, social capital and perceived employability of management graduates.
Review, rapid recall and reposition: how one HEI adapted delivery and design in the digital world in response to COVID-19
Megan Stephenson, Alison TornThe study explores the original positioning of the higher education institution in the teacher education market in March 2020. The case study identifies how the university…
Exploring the readiness of a Brazilian technological university during the COVID-19 pandemic
Gabriela Scur, Dario H. Alliprandini, Eliane F. Chinaglia, Roberto Baginski Batista SantosThe paper investigates the learning practices carried out by Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in the transition from strictly face-to-face to remote teaching in…
Training prospective technical education graduates for school-to-work transition: insights from university–industry links
Samson Onyeluka Chukwuedo, Francisca Nebechi Nnajiofor, Mohammed Adamu Auta, Ikechukwu Chidiebere OdogwuFollowing the tenets of experiential learning theory (ELT) and social cognitive theory (SCT), this study aims to investigate the influence of higher technology education…
Identifying struggling teams in online challenge-based learning
Ha Nguyen, Hannie Gijlers, Galena PisoniThe purpose of the study is to determine how students perceive groupwork and identify patterns of less successful groups in online challenge-based learning.
Employers’ perspectives of effective continuing education and training in Singapore
Anthony Leow, Shuyi Chua, Stephen Billett, Anh Hai LeEmployers often claim that the lack of employee competence is a limitation in their enterprises’ success and viability. Consequently, employers are important stakeholders…
The roles of experience and gender in shaping work values
Brian Waterwall, Cody Logan Chullen, Dennis Barber, Tope Adeyemi-BelloThis paper aims to examine work values among job seekers and how these values differ across experience and gender.
Academic performance and work placements: does academic performance influence the decision to complete a work placement?
Michael McCann, Michael HewittThere is strong evidence that year-long work placements make students more employable and produces better academic performance. Despite this, UK participation rates remain…
Online teaching and its impact on self-monitoring of faculty members: learnings for the future from a pandemic
Deepika Pandita, V.V. Ravi KumarThis research aims to combine and extend the literature on the self-monitoring approach used by faculty members in online teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic using the…
Students' career interests and entrepreneurship education in a developing country
Fred Awaah, Peter Okebukola, Juma Shabani, Helen Arkorful, Dorcas Adomaa AddoStudents' career choices and programmes of study are perceived to influence student understanding of many courses. Yet, research attention is limited on entrepreneurship…
The value proposition of construction apprenticeships in Ireland: a construction management university student perspective
Cathal Ryan, Darragh Faherty, John P. Spillane, Jim G. Bradley, Mohamed Issa, Elma McMahonTo examine the perspective of third-level university students in the context of the value proposition of construction apprenticeships in Ireland.
Exploring the perspectives of engineering undergraduates on employability and employability building activities
Simon Howell, Wayne Hall, David GeelanThis study was conducted to gain a better understanding of engineering students' perceptions of the meaning of employability and the activities that contribute to…
Preparing the youth for the future of work through apprenticeship programme in Brunei
Siti Fatimahwati Pehin Dato MusaThis study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of the government-incentivised i-Ready programme in alleviating youth unemployment in terms of the transition from education…
A study on teachers' perception towards E-learning adoption in higher educational institutions in India during the COVID-19 pandemic
Pankaj Kumar, Parveen Kumar, Ramesh Kumar Garg, Manoj Panwar, Vaibhav AggarwalThe present study examines the foremost determinants of teachers' perception, i.e. teachers' satisfaction, attitude and continuance intention towards adopting e-learning…
ICT in higher education: learning as usual or a “new normal”?
Rachana Adtani, Rachna Arora, Rajesh Raut, Netra NeelamThis study examines students’ perspectives towards the utilization of information and communication technology (ICT), during this sudden shift to remote online education…
Being socially present in a time of social distancing: investigating the online social learning experiences of teacher-trainees during COVID-19
Maryam Husain Almahdi, Ghadah Al Murshidi, Osama Al-MahdiThis paper investigates the social online learning experiences of teacher trainees during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study's model gauges the relationships between social…
A bibliometric review of research on employability: dataset from Scopus between 1972 and 2019
Ngoan Thi Dinh, Luong Dinh Hai, Hiep-Hung PhamEmployability has long been a concern of scholars because of its complicated nature and changes in the requirements in labor markets to meet the new requirements of the…
Higher education students’ motivation to transfer learning: a scoping review
Doreen Bredenkamp, Yvonne Botma, Champion N. NyoniThere is a need for higher education to produce graduates who are motivated to transfer learning into the workplace. Motivated graduates are work-ready and associated with…
Enhancing self-perceived employability via a curriculum intervention: a case of “The global marketing professional” module
Rebecca C. Padgett, William E. DonaldDrawing on human capital and sustainable career theory, this paper aims to explore university students' views regarding their self-perceived employability following…
Learning from digital adaptations to the pandemic: enhancing work-based higher education
Stan Lester, Mandy Crawford–LeeThis paper examines how the Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated digital developments in apprenticeship and work-based learning in higher education (HE), focusing on…
Diversity skills for future teachers: how transformative learning prepares pre-service teachers for diversity in Austrian schools
Katharina ReschMezirow's theory of transformative learning aims to evoke change on a deeper level of learning. This qualitative study with 38 pre-service teachers enrolled in a Master's…
Academic online learning experience during COVID-19 - a systematic literature review based on personality traits
Christina Morfaki, Apostolos SkotisThe purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the literature regarding the academic online learning experience under the lens of broad personality traits, in the…
Intention to use Internet of Things (IoT) in higher education online learning – the effect of technology readiness
Eiman NegmThis study examines higher education students' technology readiness level in explaining adoption intention toward educational Internet of Things (IoT) needed for online learning.
University student experiences of work-based placements during COVID-19 pandemic: an inter-disciplinary survey of allied health and social work students
Duana Quigley, Claire Poole, Sinead Whiting, Erna O'Connor, Claire Gleeson, Lucy AlpineWork-based placements are central to the university education of allied health and social work (AHSW) students. As a result of COVID-19, the clinical learning environment…
Examining the concurrent impact of teaching and assessment format on undergraduate students' academic performance in marketing
Christos Livas, Nansy KaraliBy focusing on a Greek traditional learning university, during and post Covid-19 restrictions, the study aims at examining the concurrent effects of teaching and…
Preferences and insights of learning process in pandemic era: a case study of South Africa
Isaque Manteiga Joaquim, Mamoqenelo Priscilla Morolong, Elzira Tiago Tundumula, Wen ChengThe Covid-19 pandemic closed most educational institutions covering all world and academic calendars are threatened. In this situation keeping academic activities live…
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