Published:Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning
(2019)
Purpose: Situated and experiential learning methodologies are largely underresearched in relation to student experience and satisfaction. The purpose of this paper is to illuminate the perspectives of students studying on a BSc (Hons) Podiatry degree programme to establish perceptions of their exper…
Published:Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning
(2019)
Purpose: Following the outcry of several employers that many higher education (HE) graduates do not possess employability skills and therefore are not employable, the purpose of this paper, therefore, is to examine what the labour market (LM) actually demands from the higher education institutions (…
Published:Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning
(2019)
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the experiences of students and teachers who had participated in a postgraduate work-based praxis course within a Master of mental health practice qualification. Design/methodology/approach: This qualitative study used an interpretative phenomenologic…
Published:Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning
(2019)
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of recognition of prior learning (RPL) as an alternative tool for access into learning programmes in South African Library and Information Science (LIS) schools. Design/methodology/approach: The study adopted quantitative methods, and u…
Published:Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning
(2019)
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to critically reflect on evidence relating to the development and delivery of apprenticeships and its potential implications for pre-registration healthcare education. Design/methodology/approach: An iterative review of English language literature published afte…
Published:Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning
(2019)
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is answer the research question to what extent Ethiopian universities can be considered to be entrepreneurial and explains possible differences among these universities. Design/methodology/approach: The paper is inspired by a mixed methods study at nine universitie…
Published:Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning
(2019)
Purpose: It is well established that there are several benefits of taking a placement year, for example, higher academic attainment, the acquisition of transferable skills and enhanced employability. It is therefore important to understand why students choose to take or not to take a placement. The …
Published:Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning
(2019)
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to identify skills and attributes that should be included in developing curricula, especially in the area of education. In this case, English Education Department of Ar-Raniry State Islamic University, Banda Aceh, is in charge of the preparation of English langu…
Published:Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning
(2019)
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate apprenticeship developments in two National Health Service (NHS) organisations since the introduction of the apprenticeship levy in April 2017 and considers potential impact on social mobility. This is a pilot for a broader exploration of implemen…
Published:Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning
(2019)
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to review a range of mechanisms used by universities to support employers to facilitate effective “on the job learning” for apprentices. It reflects on how these mechanisms can be used to address some of the challenges, reported in the literature that employers …
Published:Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning
(2019)
Purpose: The government’s ambition is to have three million more apprentices by 2020. The newness of degree apprenticeships and insufficient data make it difficult to assess their relative importance in boosting the UK economy, meeting higher skills needs of employers, closing educational attainment…
Published:Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning
(2019)
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to focus on developing a deep understanding of the nature and impact of the workplace mentor role in degree apprenticeships (DAs). It investigates a theoretical model of DA workplace mentoring activity, with findings used to develop a set of principles for suppo…
Published:Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning
(2019)
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore how curriculum design, internal infrastructures and support systems have had to be innovated to best meet the requirements of Higher Degree Apprenticeships (HDA) programmes within the business management portfolio at Solent University. This paper is w…
Published:Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning
(2018)
Purpose: The quality of education depends upon the quality of teachers, i.e. professional competence. The purpose of this paper is to empirically identify the state of faculty’s quality in technical higher education institutions of Punjab (India) in terms of their competences. Later, differences in …
Published:Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning
(2018)
Purpose: Vietnam’s 11th National Party Congress prioritised integration, modernisation and industrialisation as the new key orientations for Vietnam. It outlined Vietnam’s integration with the world, not only economically, but also in terms of the social, cultural, educational, scientific and techno…
Published:Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning
(2018)
Purpose: Globally internships have become an increasingly pervasive means by which to enhance university learning and graduate employability. Whilst this practice has crossed national borders, the transferability of internships across national contexts has been largely assumed rather than empiricall…
Published:Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning
(2018)
Purpose: In this rapidly changing world, we are experiencing the fourth industrial revolution, known as “Industry 4.0,” that requires education systems to redesign qualifications in order to meet the needs of an individual and the workplace of the digitized economy. The purpose of this paper is to p…
Published:Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning
(2018)
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate how the degree apprenticeship of the vocational training institutes (VTIs) enhances the labor market and enables the trainees to detect the knowledge and skills that are acquired during the training. In addition, this study tries to detect through…
Published:Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning
(2018)
Purpose: The vocational education and training (VET) system needs a future change in order to be more accountable to employers (and their associations) for training outcomes that match employer expectations. As part of this, an important focus is employability skills that go beyond work-related tech…
Published:Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning
(2018)
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to determine the impact of a workplace placement on the student participants' self-reported entrepreneurial attitude (EA). Design/methodology/approach: A review of relevant literature informed questions incorporated in the university's annual feedback questionna…
