Published:Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning
(2022)
Purpose: The concern in this article is that there is low interest in adult education and training (AET) programmes of the unemployed adults in developing countries. The purpose of the article is to determine the effects of social marketing efforts in motivating adult learners to acquire marketable …
Published:Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning
(2022)
Purpose: This study aims to examine the effect of experience abroad, academic success and university reputation on students' employability in the Lebanese labor market. Design/methodology/approach: The study uses a between-subject design to identify whether academic success, university reputation an…
Published:Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning
(2022)
Purpose: The purpose of this research is to investigate sustainable strategies for skills development that is specific to the youth of South Africa. International and South African data are statistically analysed and quantified to provide inputs for the systems dynamics (SD)-based predictive skills …
Published:Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning
(2021)
Purpose: The study's purpose is to present and empirically test a model that identifies academic self-concept as a mediator of the relationship between gender, sexual orientation and self-perceptions of leadership ability. Design/methodology/approach: Surveys were administered to 964 first-year unde…
Published:Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning
(2021)
Purpose: This study aims to investigate the role of social capital in Iranian agricultural students' acquisition of generic skills. For this purpose, the effect of various social capital dimensions on students' generic skills development was examined. Design/methodology/approach: A survey was conduc…
Published:Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning
(2021)
Purpose: 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 services to patients. This study aimed to design an efficient residency training model in Iranian healthcare ce…
Published:Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning
(2021)
Purpose: Clinical placement is an important formalised student activity for linking healthcare education and healthcare practices. The purpose of this study is to investigate the organising of clinical placements by examining conditions for collaboration between higher education and healthcare organ…
Published:Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning
(2021)
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to analyze the indexes of employability assets that affect students' employability in Indigenous contexts. Design/methodology/approach: The study restructures the indicators developed from the survey the authors did for the Vital Outcome Indicators for Community…
Published:Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning
(2021)
Purpose: 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 these courses. The present study seeks to explain these differences by focusing on attention as a central aspect …
Published:Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning
(2021)
Purpose: The perspectives of industry instructors from a case enterprise were adopted to analyze various contexts of internship implementation and to examine feasible strategies for incorporating internships in the human resource development process. Design/methodology/approach: A Taiwanese enterpri…
Published:Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning
(2021)
Purpose: The authors examined team-learning processes in short-term student project teams operating in an intensive design competition at a public university. The purpose of this paper is to explore the critical facilitators, inhibitors and processes for fostering students' creativity within interdi…
Published:Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning
(2021)
Purpose: Due to rapid changes in the future labor market, transferable skills are recognized as a vital learning outcome for students in undergraduate higher education. However, ambiguities surrounding the concept and content of transferable skills hamper the actual teaching and learning of transfer…
Published:Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning
(2021)
Purpose: During the last few years there has been an increase of interest in work-based learning (WBL), which can be understood as a process of both developing workplace skills and promoting labor force productivity. This paper aims to map the scientific landscape related to WBL research worldwide. …
Published:Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning
(2021)
Purpose: Managers claim that fresh graduates are unequipped to meet market demands. The aim of this study is to investigate the perception of employers in retail Islamic banks of Bahrain on newly graduated business students. The Singaporean Model of Employability Skills was implemented, to ascertain…
Published:Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning
(2021)
Purpose: To satisfy multiple stakeholders’ employability goals, higher education providers have introduced Work Integrated Learning (WIL) programs to provide opportunities for students to develop the required skills. Yet despite this increased focus, gaps in graduate capabilities persist. Thus, the …
Published:Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning
(2021)
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explain the mediation effect of affective commitment on the relationship between human resource management practices and informal workplace learning. Design/methodology/approach: This paper develops a conceptual framework along with propositions by integratin…
Published:Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning
(2021)
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to report on the implications of new and unfamiliar roles for educators, students and employers generated by experiential learning (EL) activities. It considers how a series of tensions and instabilities in traditional role identities for each group arise from a…
Published:Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning
(2021)
Purpose: This paper aims to probe into the implementation of internship courses under the five-year cosmetology program in Taiwan from the perspective of Dewey's philosophies in hopes that the analysis can serve as reference for schools in planning their internship courses in the future. Design/meth…
Published:Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning
(2021)
Purpose: The relationship between the shortage of chefs for the hospitality industry in Ireland and the lack of uptake for chef apprenticeship is an underexplored topic. This study investigates attitudes to chef training and chef apprenticeship among industry representatives and second-level student…
Published:Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning
(2021)
Purpose: The Government of Canada is adopting the pedagogical practice of Work Integrated Learning (WIL) to help youth develop the career ready skills needed to transition from school to work. As a result, colleges and universities are receiving funding to grow academic programs that link theoretica…
