Published:Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education
(2026)
Purpose – In the ever-changing landscape of education, new policies play a very crucial role in shaping the future trajectory of nations. The National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 stands as a testament to the commitment toward redefining the educational paradigm in India. This research aims to identi…
Published:Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education
(2026)
Purpose – This study aimed to investigate the impact of ChatGPT on students’ self-efficacy, anxiety and motivation within blended learning environments. Design/methodology/approach – A correlational quantitative method was employed using the data collected through an online questionnaire distributed…
Published:Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education
(2025)
Purpose – The internationalization of vocational education often pressures institutions to adopt global standards. However, direct replication without systemic adaptation can lead to implementation failure. This study investigates this challenge through a case study of an Indonesian Aviation Vocatio…
Published:Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education
(2025)
Purpose – This study examines students' perceptions of gender equity initiatives in Bangladesh's tertiary education, with a focus on science, business and vocational or technical fields. Design/methodology/approach – This research employs an exploratory sequential mixed-methods design, combining qua…
Published:Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education
(2025)
Purpose – The main purpose of this study is to determine how competency-driven entrepreneurship education (CDEE) affects one's entrepreneurial intention (EI) by examining the interplay between entrepreneurial self-efficacy (ESE) and entrepreneurial passion for inventing and founding (EPIF). Addition…
Published:Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education
(2025)
Purpose – This study aims to explore the relationship between gender, mathematics achievement and mathematical self-efficacy among vocational college students. Design/methodology/approach – This study involves 189 first-year vocational undergraduate students from Sichuan Polytechnic University, incl…
Published:Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education
(2025)
Purpose This study examines how satisfying psychological needs—relatedness, competence, and autonomy—affects Work-Based Learning (WBL) engagement and employability outcomes in college students. It investigates whether WBL engagement mediates the relationship between need satisfaction, employability …
Published:Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education
(2025)
Purpose: This study aims to comprehend vocational preservice teachers' recalled experiences with the Cooperative Problem-based Learning (CPBL) pedagogical approach in an entrepreneurship course and to reveal how these experiences will impact their future teaching practice. The course under study int…
Published:Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education
(2025)
Purpose Sustaining engagement in high-stakes vocational training is a global imperative. This study investigates the interplay between motivation, personal best (PB) goals and multifaceted student engagement (behavioural, emotional, cognitive and agentic) among Indonesian aviation vocational higher …
Published:Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education
(2025)
Purpose This study explores the soft skills learnt during internship programmes in small enterprises and their impact on student employability. Compared to typical internships, this type of internship is not aligned with the student’s areas of expertise. This study examines whether the nonlinear app…
Published:Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education
(2024)
Purpose: The article aims to identify the determinants of the urbanization process given the magnitude of this phenomenon and also its economic, social and environmental implications and pressure on public authorities to find viable solutions in the context of sustainable development. Design/methodo…
Published:Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education
(2024)
Purpose: The aim of this scoping review was to identify key characteristics related to strategies and approaches for delivering sustainable training and professional development (PD) of graduate teaching assistants (GTAs), teaching assistants (TAs), and tutors. While the continuous, coherent and res…
Published:Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education
(2024)
Purpose: The aim of this study was the development and validation (D&V) of an assessment tool to measure administrators' attitudes towards the ‘Apprenticeship Embedded Degree Program (AEDP)’ in higher education institutions (HEIs). Design/methodology/approach: A rigorous empirical method was followe…
Published:Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education
(2023)
Purpose: In a technological era driven by coding, programming and artificial intelligence (AI), there is more need than ever to develop computing skills and knowledge for non-specialist students. Nonetheless, the literature on computer science teaching methods of non-scientific majors is not as comp…
Published:Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education
(2022)
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to implement and evaluate active learning strategies to support engineering students in the development of research competences, contributing to the growing need for a closer relationship between research and teaching. Design/methodology/approach: This study was…
Published:Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education
(2022)
Purpose: The present study aims to gauge the perspectives of students on the difficulties they faced during online learning during the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) through the interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) technique. Design/methodology/approach: The current study …
Published:Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education
(2022)
Purpose: The study examines a mediated mechanism for enhancing students' engagement i.e. peer, intellectual and academic engagement within a higher education setup via the interaction of hope and mindfulness. Design/methodology/approach: Data were conveniently collected using self-reported questionn…
