Published:Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning
(2023)
Purpose: The study aims to explore how the collective representations of stakeholders associated with an Executive MBA (EMBA) apprenticeship are conceptualised, and what value elements are perceived as relevant for personal, professional and organisational development. Design/methodology/approach: F…
Published:Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning
(2023)
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to gain insight into the degree apprenticeship labour market and employers' strategies for apprenticeship recruitment using job advertisement data. Specifically, this study identifies the skills, attributes, experience and qualifications that employers look for …
Published:Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning
(2023)
Purpose: Employers often claim that the lack of employee competence is a limitation in their enterprises’ success and viability. Consequently, employers are important stakeholders in considerations for workforce continuing education and training (CET) policies and practices. Hence, the authors under…
Published:Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning
(2023)
Purpose: Following the tenets of experiential learning theory (ELT) and social cognitive theory (SCT), this study aims to investigate the influence of higher technology education students' placement experiences (work-related learning by teaching practice [WLTP] and by industry attachment [WLIA]) on …
Published:Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning
(2023)
Purpose: This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of the government-incentivised i-Ready programme in alleviating youth unemployment in terms of the transition from education to the labour force market. Design/methodology/approach: Focus group discussions are conducted to reveal the perceptions…
Published:Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning
(2023)
Purpose: To examine the perspective of third-level university students in the context of the value proposition of construction apprenticeships in Ireland. Design/methodology/approach: The research uses a qualitative method, conducting semi-structured interviews with 20 third-level university student…
Published:Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning
(2023)
Purpose: There is strong evidence that year-long work placements make students more employable and produces better academic performance. Despite this, UK participation rates remain stubbornly low. The authors examine the influence of academic performance on students' willingness and ability to compl…
Published:Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning
(2023)
Purpose: Mezirow's theory of transformative learning aims to evoke change on a deeper level of learning. This qualitative study with 38 pre-service teachers enrolled in a Master's degree programme for teacher education in Austria used semi-structured interviews to explore how diversity skills can tr…
Published:Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning
(2023)
Purpose: There is a need for higher education to produce graduates who are motivated to transfer learning into the workplace. Motivated graduates are work-ready and associated with increased performance. Presently, the research field around motivation to transfer learning by students in higher educa…
Published:Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning
(2023)
Purpose: Drawing on human capital and sustainable career theory, this paper aims to explore university students' views regarding their self-perceived employability following participation in a mandatory module titled “The Global Marketing Professional”. Design/methodology/approach: Overall, 80 stude…
Published:Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning
(2023)
Purpose: Employability has long been a concern of scholars because of its complicated nature and changes in the requirements in labor markets to meet the new requirements of the Industrial Revolution 4.0 and globalization. However, there has not yet been much systematic investigation of the existing…
Published:Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning
(2023)
Purpose: Apprenticeships for higher education institutes (HEIs) at degree and postgraduate levels in the UK have been challenging to provide, requiring increasingly complex collaboration and investment. This questions longer-term viability, creating a new perspective investigating evidence of value …
Published:Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning
(2023)
Purpose: This paper aims to explore a transdisciplinary approach to the careers and employability education of transnational education (TNE) students of higher education. It proposes that an approach which adopts three lenses of academic study, lived experience and career stage can provide maximum b…
Published:Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning
(2023)
Purpose: This study examines whether students graduating from SSC-VOC perform better in diploma engineering programs. Design/methodology/approach: This study uses quantitative and qualitative methods to examine how secondary school certificate-vocational (SSC-VOC) graduates perform in their subseque…
Published:Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning
(2023)
Purpose: As learning at the workplace is predominantly self-motivated, this study is aimed to identify and categorize the motivational drivers for working professionals to pursue self-directed learning (SDL) at the workplace. Design/methodology/approach: A total of 23 variables were identified as dr…
Published:Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning
(2023)
Purpose: The aim of this study is to examine the relationship between the determinants of student loyalty, i.e. service quality, e-service quality and university image in open and distance learning (ODL) based on the theory of reasoned action, in more systematic approach. This study also examines un…
Published:Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning
(2023)
Purpose: This research aimed to examine the current status of artificial intelligence's (AI's) integration into Chinese adult education, by analyzing the influences that AI has had on current adult education practices in China and by discussing the opportunities and challenges that adult education i…
Published:Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning
(2023)
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to conduct a systematic review of the literature addressing international aid to education, primarily focusing on China's aid principles and its practice of scholarship programs and short-term training held in higher education institutions (HEIs). Design/methodo…
Published:Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning
(2023)
Purpose: Building on the concepts of learning communities of practice, the paper aims to evaluate their application within degree apprenticeships (DAs) to support pedagogic engagement and inclusive education within a university setting. Design/methodology/approach: A case study of an existing B2B sa…
Published:Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning
(2023)
Purpose: This study seeks to show whether workplace experience (WE) in an apprenticeship programme affects the duration of joblessness amongst recent university graduates and to determine the antecedents that support a workplace well-being experience during an apprenticeship programme. Additionally,…
