Higher Education, Skills and Work-Based Learning
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Issue 2 2013 Parttime study the new paradigm for higher education A selection of papers from the 2012 Conference of the Universities Association for Lifelong Learning
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The development of self-efficacy and self-leadership within USA accredited sales programs: an exploratory study on sales career preparedness
Peter Knight, Karen Peesker, Claudia C. MichThe purpose of this exploratory study is to investigate the impact of sales education on recent graduates' career preparedness and understand how sales programs might…
Training transfer model as a possibility for the mandatory internship at sport science undergraduate courses
Verónica Gabriela Silva Piovani, Ieda Parra Barbosa Rinaldi, Jorge BothThis article aims to explain the transfer of training model used in the training of human resources within organizations and its possibilities for the mandatory internship…
Collaborative engagement experience-based learning: a teaching framework for business education
Shelly L. Freyn, Mina Sedaghatjou, Sheree RodneyAn academic–practitioner divide exists suggesting the need for business education curriculum to more appropriately suit private-sector demands. This calls for pedagogical…
An evaluation of public policy student placements: outcomes of a Malta-based study
Anne Marie ThakeThe purpose of this paper is to evaluate short-term, unpaid placements offered to students reading for a degree in public policy. They provide added value to their…
Unveiling business school interns' satisfaction toward online summer internship program amid COVID-19
Rashmi Maini, Sanandi Sachdeva, Guneet Kaur MannThe objective of this research is to explore factors that influence interns' satisfaction (is) toward the e-internship program, an alternate adopted by management…
Architecture in the UK: a study in professional entry-routes and entry-gates
Stan LesterThis paper examines architecture as an example of the evolving context of qualifying routes in UK professions.
The relationship between employability skills and career adaptability: a case of undergraduate students of the United Arab Emirates
Khalizani Khalid, Abdul Majeed AhmadThe purpose of this study is to examine the psychometric properties of the Career Adapt-Abilities Scale (CAAS-Arabic form) and investigates the relationship between…
Essential employable skill sets in management graduates for finance job roles in India
Shruti Srinivasan, Ravikumar ThangarajThere has been an increase in the number of highly qualified management graduates specialized in finance from various esteemed universities in India, thus increasing the…
Social entrepreneurship education: changemaker training at the university
Abel García-González, María Soledad Ramírez-MontoyaThis study aims to contribute to the body of scientific knowledge about teaching and promoting social entrepreneurship in higher education institutions (HEIs) based on a…
Virtual learning approach to biological engineering courses in Uruguay during COVID-19
Camila Simoes, Parag Chatterjee, Lucía Paola Lemes, Andreína Tesis, Franco La Paz, Gonzalo Cuñarro, María Belén Masset, Vanessa Yelós, Mariano Parodi, Juan Cardelino, Ricardo ArmentanoIn times when digitized and blended learning paradigms are getting more profuse, the COVID-19 pandemic substantially changed the dynamics of this program, forcing all the…
Understanding emotional empathy at postgraduate business programmes: what does the use of EEG reveal for future leaders?
Steve Lambert, Nikolaos Dimitriadis, Michael Taylor, Matteo VenerucciThis paper focusses on the leaders' ability to recognise and empathise with emotions. This is important because leadership and particularly transformational leadership are…
Pre-service teachers' acquisition of scientific knowledge and scientific skills through inquiry-based laboratory activity
Cristina Valls-Bautista, Anna Solé-LLussà, Marina CasanovesScientific inquiry is a leading methodology that promotes science process skills to acquire scientific knowledge. There is evidence that primary school teachers have…
English for Professionals students' perceptions of the relevance of internship to their undergraduate courses and career choices
Fauzilah Md Husain, Omer Hassan Ali MahfoodhThis qualitative study examined English for Professionals students' experience of the internship programme and their perceptions of the relevance of the internship…
Cooperative language learning elements to enhance social skills in English classrooms: a case study
Gina Camacho-Minuche, Verónica Espinoza-Celinica, Eva UlehlovaThe aim was to prove the efficacy of the five cooperative learning elements applied in English classrooms and to demonstrate how effective they were to develop social…
The influence of part-time work on graduates' careers
Carl Evans, Ceri VaughanThe purpose of this paper is to explore university students' perceptions about career development in relation to their part-time working and to examine whether students…
The role of national service in enhancing employability skills of tertiary graduates in Ghana: a case of national service personnel in the Central Region
Moses Segbenya, Nana Yaw Oppong, Sally Abena Baafi-FrimpongOne of the means to enhance the employability skills of tertiary graduates transiting into the job market has been the compulsory national service instituted by the…
Perceived supervisor support and learner’s career curiosity: the mediating effect of sense of belonging, engagement and self-efficacy
Ugochukwu Chinonso Okolie, Chinedu Ochinanwata, Nonso Ochinanwata, Paul Agu Igwe, Gloria Obiageli OkorieThis study investigates the relationship between perceived supervisor support (PSS) and learner career curiosity and tests the mediating role of sense of belonging…
The strategy of Islamic economic colleges to prepare their graduates to work in Islamic banks
Muhammad ZakiyAcademic achievement is not a determinant of college graduates' work readiness, but it requires adequate knowledge and skills to be accepted to work in companies. The…
Gender, sexual orientation, academic self-concept and leadership
Jeffrey A. Miles, Stefanie E. NaumannThe study's purpose is to present and empirically test a model that identifies academic self-concept as a mediator of the relationship between gender, sexual orientation…
“You are not as localised as I need”: employability of Chinese returning graduates
Ly Thi Tran, Jill Blackmore, Mark RahimiInternational student employability has been accorded increased emphasis in the internationalisation agendas, especially in major destination countries as it shapes…
Career decision-making difficulties among university students: does employment status matter?
Abdulfattah Yaghi, Nizar AlabedThe study adapted the Career Decision Making Difficulties Questionnaire for the Arab world. The purpose of the study was to test a popular but scientifically unverified…
Assessment of current and future critical skills in the South African construction industry
Innocent Musonda, Chioma OkoroThe role of skills development in attaining productivity and competitiveness in industry and global level cannot be overemphasized in the construction sector. The study…
Qualification as a societal challenge and the role of higher education from a system approach
Alessandro R. Goulart, Lara B. Liboni, Luciana O. CezarinoLooking at the planet as our main and unique asset, the authors encounter fragile zones needing special attention more than others, such as emerging countries. One of…
Career adaptability and job outcomes: a moderated mediation model of proactivity and job content plateau in educational sector
Harleen Kaur, Rajpreet KaurVery little research has examined how adaptivity, adaptability resources, adapting responses and adaptation results are interlinked with each other. The current research…
Industry instructors' perspective on internship implementation strategy
Chun-Chi LanThe perspectives of industry instructors from a case enterprise were adopted to analyze various contexts of internship implementation and to examine feasible strategies…
Generic skill profiles of future accountants and auditors – moving beyond attributes
Karin Barac, Kato Plant, Rolien Kunz, Marina KirsteinThis study investigates perceptions regarding generic skills future entry-level accountants and auditors will require. Such soft or pervasive skills are necessary to…
Use of lexical items in job interviews by recent graduates in Malaysia
Isai Amutan Krishnan, Jariah Mohd Jan, Siti Zaidah Binti ZainuddinThe purpose of this paper is to explore the knowledge of lexical items in a job interview by recent graduates.
Conditions for collaboration between higher education and healthcare providers organising clinical placements
Ann-Charlotte Bivall, Maria Gustavsson, Annika Lindh FalkClinical placement is an important formalised student activity for linking healthcare education and healthcare practices. The purpose of this study is to investigate the…
A compatible model of family medicine residency training in Iran
Farnaz Khatami, Mohammad Shariati, Asiyeh MotezarreOne of the major challenges in practicing family medicine residents (FMRs) is the choice of an appropriate pattern in training health centers (THCs) to provide…
Relationship between achievement goals and attention of university instructors in higher education professional training courses
Benjamin Kücherer, Markus Dresel, Martin DaumillerProfessional training courses play an important role for higher education instructors and their teaching quality. However, participants strongly differ in how much they…
Student work-placements from the company perspective: a case study
Reina Ferrández-Berrueco, Lucía Sánchez-TarazagaThe aim of this paper is to report the motivations and perceived benefits of companies that collaborate with universities by offering student work-placement positions.
Indexes of employability assets: a comprehensive tool for analyzing students' attitudes in Indigenous contexts
Amzad Hossain, Harvey Briggs, Ying KongThe purpose of this study is to analyze the indexes of employability assets that affect students' employability in Indigenous contexts.
Identifying sustainability drivers in higher education through fuzzy AHP
Anchal Arora, Jinesh Jain, Sanjay Gupta, Ajay SharmaIn today's competitive environment, sustainability is talked out in every sphere of life. Sustainability is a key to stability and for that roots are being focused by…
Executive assessment of MBA graduates in Nigerian companies
Linus OsuagwuThe study aims to explore, via empirical evidence, executive assessment of Master of Business Administration (MBA) graduates in Nigerian companies.
When things go wrong: the implications for facilitators of work integrated learning placements in international destinations
Deborah Agnew, Elizabeth Abery, Sam Schulz, Shane PillInternational work integrated learning (iWIL) placements for university students are widely promoted within universities. However, they cannot be offered and sustained…
Graduate employability post-COVID-19: the case of a Malaysian public university
Muhammad Iqmal Hisham Kamaruddin, Azuan Ahmad, Mohd Asri Husain, Saffa Nasuha Abd HamidThis study presents an effort to identify and understand the impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on the graduate employability (GE) of Universiti…
What do we mean by “transferable skills”? A literature review of how the concept is conceptualized in undergraduate health sciences education
Kristoffer Brix Olesen, Mette Krogh Christensen, Lotte Dyhrberg O'NeillDue to rapid changes in the future labor market, transferable skills are recognized as a vital learning outcome for students in undergraduate higher education. However…
Developing WIL curriculum which enhances hospitality students capabilities
Janine Williamson, Karina Wardle, Hazreel HasmiTo satisfy multiple stakeholders’ employability goals, higher education providers have introduced Work Integrated Learning (WIL) programs to provide opportunities for…
A worldwide bibliometric and network analysis of work-based learning research
Jacks Bezerra, Fábio Batista Mota, Michele Waltz Comarú, Luiza Amara Maciel Braga, Leonardo Fernandes Moutinho Rocha, Paulo Roberto Carvalho, Luís Alexandre da Fonseca Tinoca, Renato Matos LopesDuring the last few years there has been an increase of interest in work-based learning (WBL), which can be understood as a process of both developing workplace skills and…
Exploring technology attitudes and personal–cultural orientations as student readiness factors for digitalised work
Todd J.B. Blayone, Olena Mykhailenko, Svetlana Usca, Anda Abuze, Ihor Romanets, Mykhailo OleksiivEmerging forms of digitalisation are placing new demands on workforce entrants around the globe. This study, catalysed by innovation programs in Ukraine and Latvia…
Cultivating interdisciplinary team creativity through an intensive design competition
Soo Jeoung Han, Mehrangiz Abadi, Bora Jin, Jie ChenThe authors examined team-learning processes in short-term student project teams operating in an intensive design competition at a public university. The purpose of this…
Supply chain workforce training: addressing the digital skills gap
Abbas ForoughiThe purpose of this research was to address the critical need for supply chain workforce training to empower employees to use new digital technologies and to identify and…
Students’ continuing personal development (S-CPD) - a scheme to promote student engagement in extra-curricular activities
Pei Cheng OoiThis paper presents an overview of a lifelong learning scheme. It outlines the design of the scheme that was initially targeted for electrical and electronic engineering…
International work integrated learning (WIL) in undergraduate paramedicine programs: a cross-sectional survey of practice models in Australasia
Sarah Johnson, Liz Thyer, Paul SimpsonThe proliferation of undergraduate paramedicine programs has led to a surge in demand for work integrated learning (WIL), placing pressure on domestic ambulance service…
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- Prof Tony Wall
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