Higher Education, Skills and Work-Based Learning: Volume 5 Issue 3

When a PhD is not enough: A case study of a UK internship programme to enhance the employability of doctoral researchers

Hilary M Jones, Lorna J Warnock

This paper outlines a doctoral internship programme introduced for students researching Mechanistic Biology in the Department of Biology, University of York, UK. The programme…

An evaluation of the link between subjects studied in hospitality courses in Cyprus and career success: Perceptions of industry professionals

Stelios Marneros, Paul Gibbs

The purpose of this paper, unprecedented in Cyprus in its scope and approach, is to investigate the importance level of the courses currently taught in hospitality programs of the…

Embedding social innovation and social impact across the disciplines: Identifying “Changemaker” attributes

Bethany Alden Rivers, Alejandro Armellini, Ming Nie

The purpose of this paper is to propose an attributes framework for embedding “Changemaker” – a university initiative for promoting social innovation and social impact – across…

Management competencies anno 2025: consequences for higher education

Donald Ropes

The purpose of this paper is to present the results of a business-university collaborative research project that looked to define lower management competencies in the year 2025…

Design managers, their organisations and work-based learning

Caroline Norman, Robert Jerrard

Designers’ careers can be compromised if they are unable to understand the business context they operate in and cannot communicate effectively across other disciplines. Where…

Student perceptions of barriers to networking with employers

Elizabeth Frances Caldwell, Christine Cattermole

The purpose of this paper is to explore the usefulness of the concept of the “implied graduate” to explain the difficulties which students report when engaging with local…

Developing business students’ employability skills through working in partnership with a local business to deliver an undergraduate mentoring programme

Sue Spence, Denis Hyams-Ssekasi

Working collaboratively with local business is vitally important in the delivery of higher education (HE) in further education (FE). The purpose of this paper is to explore an…

Introduction to the special section

Leesa Wheelahan, Gavin Moodie

Editorial

Ruth Heyler