Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences

The objective of this study was to examine the moderating effect of self-motivation on the relationship between entrepreneurial skill acquisition and self-employment practice among graduates from Malaysian public universities. It is a known fact that youth enterprises could generate employment oppor…

This article examines an ‘unstated’ belief that as the content of a given Quantitative Literacy course grows progressively more complex, the activities relating to social justice issues will surface at a higher cognitive level than those activities lacking social justice issues of social justice. Th…

The development of learning programmes and courses, qualifications design and future curriculum development in Further Education and Training (FET) vocational education provision on a national level is at the heart of the college sector. It should respond to the technological needs of labour market …

Since the year 2000 learnerships have been introduced in all sectors of South African society including education, as a strategy to overcome the acute skills shortage which hinders national development. A learnership is defined as work-based learning with the aim of obtaining a qualification within …

This paper is an argument for the review of Nigeria's national thinking to position the country for rapid socioeconomic development. The paper argues for a positioning of entrepreneurship as the locus of development effort at the national level. Although in a globalized world academic thinking shoul…

The skill emphasis in the implementation of technical and vocational education and training (TVET) programmes demands that conscious and concerted effort are made to put in place strategies that would guarantee hand - on learning experiences. Basically, a sure way of realizing these critical objecti…

Despite growing importance of collaboration in research there has been very few investigations of the relationship that exists between industry, commerce and academic education in an open and distance learning (ODL) environment. The purpose of this qualitative study is to explore and describe the co…