Higher Education, Skills and Work-Based Learning
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The journal of the University Vocational Awards CouncilCategory:
Education
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Issue 1 2021
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Issue 5 2020 Transforming the Perception of Apprenticeships in England: Professional Careers in the Public Sector
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Issue 1 2015 Higher level vocational skills – part 1: contexts and issues arising from higher level vocational skills offered by colleges
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Issue 3 2013
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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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
‘Read it, now what? Engaging students with information literacy’
Karen FoordThe purpose of this action research study was to explore whether enabling work-based students to identify their information literacy (IL) needs and participate in activity…
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…
Success beyond STEM: an analysis of educational background of the Fortune 50 CEOs
James WelchThe purpose of this article is examine some of the most successful contemporary global business leaders in relation to undergraduate institution and undergraduate major in…
The role of affective commitment on the relationship between human resource management practices and informal workplace learning
Md Shariful Alam Khandakar, Faizuniah PangilThe purpose of this paper is to explain the mediation effect of affective commitment on the relationship between human resource management practices and informal workplace…
The undergraduate simulation framework: standardising design and delivery
Pauletta Marie Irwin, Robin A. Brown, Sonia ButlerHigher education organisations have the need and capacity to meet the expectations of industry partners to develop practice-ready graduates. Altered social and fiscal…
The role of social capital in Iranian agricultural students' acquisition of generic skills
Hesamedin Gholami, Amir Alambeigi, Mohammadreza Farrokhnia, Omid Noroozi, Mostafa KarbasiounThis study aims to investigate the role of social capital in Iranian agricultural students' acquisition of generic skills. For this purpose, the effect of various social…
Accountants' IT responsibilities and competencies from a student perspective
Raphael Junger da Silva, Roberto Tommasetti, Monica Zaidan Gomes, Marcelo Alvaro da Silva MacedoResearch question is about the perception of stricto sensu undergraduate and graduate accounting students, from the Metropolitan Region of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) of the…
Personality traits, teamwork competencies and academic performance among first-year engineering students
Kuok Ho Daniel TangIt is commonly believed that personality traits determine a person's ability to work in a team and academic performance. However, studies have shown inconsistent results…
Criminology placements: work-based learning and organisational “buy in”
Kate Bramford, Anne L. EasonThis study aims to explore the views of criminal justice and allied sector organisations and agencies, of why they provide placements for the Applied Criminology programme…
Learning from experience – a probe into the off-campus internships under the five-year cosmetology technical and vocational education program
Yeh Ju-Hsuan, Tsai-Yun Lo, Ming-Chang Wu, Li-Feng WangThis paper aims to probe into the implementation of internship courses under the five-year cosmetology program in Taiwan from the perspective of Dewey's philosophies in…
In liminality: interdisciplinary teams learning through challenges
Sigrid Westad Brandshaug, Ela SjølieThe aim of this paper is to introduce the concept of liminality as a theoretical lens to explore and discuss how challenges, accompanied by frustrations and confusion, can…
Emotional challenges and pre-placement preparations: a cross-disciplinary, longitudinal study of “learner-worker” undergraduates (in an Irish HEI)
Gerard DiverThe aim of this cross-disciplinary, year-long, longitudinal qualitative study was to gain useful insights into the experiences of undergraduates undertaking work…
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…
Changing roles and environments in experiential learning
María Florencia Amigó, Justine LloydThe purpose of this paper is to report on the implications of new and unfamiliar roles for educators, students and employers generated by experiential learning (EL…
Soft skills development in entry-level internal auditors: perspectives from practising internal auditors, students and facilitators in South Africa
Johannes Cornelius Steynliterature and research internationally indicate a lack of sufficient facilitation of soft skills development in entry-level internal auditors (internal audit graduates…
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…
Ability-based emotional intelligence and career adaptability: role in job-search success of university students
Shashank MittalThis study aims to investigate the specific role of the components of ability-based emotional intelligence (their relative importance) in building different aspects of…
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…
Conceptualizing a teacher–student knowledge exchange perspective: exploring the tripartite relationships between SECI theory, LMX theory and HEIs' students' preparedness for the workplace
Ayodotun Stephen Ibidunni, Oyebisi M. Ibidunni, Olufemi A. Akinbola, Maxwell A. Olokundun, Olaleke O. OgunnaikeThis research investigated the influence of the dimensions of the SECI theory, LMX theory and a newly developed teacher–student knowledge exchanges (TSKE) on preparedness…
Performance management systems in Lebanese private higher education institutions: design and implementation challenges
Hussein Al Jardali, Nada Khaddage-Soboh, Mohammad Abbas, Nour Al MawedThe purpose of this study is at creating a performance management system template based on the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) framework, which could lead the scorecard to…
Facilitation of team communication skill among engineers: an empirical study
Nikhil K. Mehta, Sumi JhaThe purpose of the study is to understand the team communication skill among students with engineering background.
Do employability skills for business graduates meet the employers’ expectations? The case of retail Islamic banks of Bahrain
Noor Al-Shehab, Mukhtar AL-Hashimi, Araby Madbouly, Sameh Reyad, Allam HamdanManagers claim that fresh graduates are unequipped to meet market demands. The aim of this study is to investigate the perception of employers in retail Islamic banks of…
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2042-3896Online date, start – end:
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
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- Prof Tony Wall
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