Higher Education, Skills and Work-Based Learning: Volume 9 Issue 1

Potential implications of degree apprenticeships for healthcare education

Denise Baker

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…

Designing workplace induction programs to support the transition of new-career engineers to practice

Sally Hawse, Leigh Norma Wood

The purpose of this paper is to focus on transition of engineering graduates to work. It asks: “What approaches and enabling activities can organisational induction programs use…

The potential of digital sand-table use in engineering education: Towards a development of future engineers

Juan Ramón Molina, Francisco Rodríguez y Silva, Miguel Ángel Herrera

The purpose of this paper is to show the evaluation of the learning process to determinate if engineering student marks would be better from sand-table teaching than from…

Differences in accounting students’ perceptions of their development of professional skills: A South African case

Marina Kirstein, Stephen Coetzee, Astrid Schmulian

The purpose of this paper is to explore differences in South African accounting students’ perceptions of professional skills developed in an undergraduate accounting program…

Business students’ perspectives on employability skills post internship experience: Lessons from the UAE

Mamie Griffin, Pedro Coelhoso

Employability skills of university graduates remain an ongoing topic for discussion and debate. Numerous studies highlight the expressed concerns of governments and industries…

Identity, employability and entrepreneurship: the ChANGE framework of graduate attributes

Rachel Maxwell, Alejandro Armellini

The purpose of this paper is to introduce an evidence-based, transferable framework of graduate attributes and associated university toolkit to support the writing of…

Internship in a business school: expectation versus experience

Netra Neelam, Sonali Bhattacharya, Vishakha Kejriwal, Varsha Bhardwaj, Anshul Goyal, Arushi Saxena, Deeksha Dhawan, Aditya Vaddi, Garima Choudaha

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the value of internship as a function of the disparity between the initial expectation from the internship and its actual experience. The…

Enhancing graduates’ employability skills through authentic learning approaches

Adriana Ornellas, Kajsa Falkner, Eva Edman Stålbrandt

The purpose of this paper is to introduce a theoretical framework based on authentic learning approaches that can be taken into consideration in higher education (HE) contexts to…

Student and teacher perspectives on a multi-disciplinary collaborative pedagogy in architecture and construction

Thomas Leathem, Christina Hillesheim, Aressa Coley, Shane McGregor

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate a unique pedagogical approach intended to address a need of the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) professions for graduates…