Higher Education, Skills and Work-Based Learning: Volume 11 Issue 4

Indexes of employability assets: a comprehensive tool for analyzing students' attitudes in Indigenous contexts

Amzad Hossain, Harvey Briggs, Ying Kong

The purpose of this study is to analyze the indexes of employability assets that affect students' employability in Indigenous contexts.

Conditions for collaboration between higher education and healthcare providers organising clinical placements

Ann-Charlotte Bivall, Maria Gustavsson, Annika Lindh Falk

Clinical placement is an important formalised student activity for linking healthcare education and healthcare practices. The purpose of this study is to investigate the…

Executive assessment of MBA graduates in Nigerian companies

Linus Osuagwu

The study aims to explore, via empirical evidence, executive assessment of Master of Business Administration (MBA) graduates in Nigerian companies.

Identifying sustainability drivers in higher education through fuzzy AHP

Anchal Arora, Jinesh Jain, Sanjay Gupta, Ajay Sharma

In 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…

Use of lexical items in job interviews by recent graduates in Malaysia

Isai Amutan Krishnan, Jariah Mohd Jan, Siti Zaidah Binti Zainuddin

The purpose of this paper is to explore the knowledge of lexical items in a job interview by recent graduates.

Relationship between achievement goals and attention of university instructors in higher education professional training courses

Benjamin Kücherer, Markus Dresel, Martin Daumiller

Professional training courses play an important role for higher education instructors and their teaching quality. However, participants strongly differ in how much they learn in…

A compatible model of family medicine residency training in Iran

Farnaz Khatami, Mohammad Shariati, Asiyeh Motezarre

One of the major challenges in practicing family medicine residents (FMRs) is the choice of an appropriate pattern in training health centers (THCs) to provide high-quality health…

Student work-placements from the company perspective: a case study

Reina Ferrández-Berrueco, Lucía Sánchez-Tarazaga

The aim of this paper is to report the motivations and perceived benefits of companies that collaborate with universities by offering student work-placement positions.

Generic skill profiles of future accountants and auditors – moving beyond attributes

Karin Barac, Kato Plant, Rolien Kunz, Marina Kirstein

This study investigates perceptions regarding generic skills future entry-level accountants and auditors will require. Such soft or pervasive skills are necessary to operate…

Career adaptability and job outcomes: a moderated mediation model of proactivity and job content plateau in educational sector

Harleen Kaur, Rajpreet Kaur

Very little research has examined how adaptivity, adaptability resources, adapting responses and adaptation results are interlinked with each other. The current research aims to…