Education + Training: Volume 49 Issue 8/9

Enterprise education: the frustration of a pure contest

This paper seeks to discuss the development of a strategy game for enterprise education. It is argued that requiring students to initially struggle with the game's rules and…

Connecting enterprise and graduate employability: Challenges to the higher education culture and curriculum?

This paper aims to demonstrate the rationale for connecting enterprise education with employability and career development in the design of curricula and learning experiences…

Social interaction and adolescent's learning in enterprise education: An empirical study

The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of social interaction on participants' learning experience in enterprise education.

Teaching the attributes of venture teamwork in tertiary entrepreneurship programmes

The paper seeks to demonstrate the characteristics of group work that are required to teach the attributes of real world venture teamwork in tertiary entrepreneurship programmes.

Supporting e‐learning in enterprise: the TE3 project

The Technology Enhanced Enterprise Education project (TE3) promotes the use of learning technologies to enhance enterprise and entrepreneurship education in the 12 HEI partners of…

Vocational education and training in small ethnic minority businesses in the UK

This paper seeks to investigate the provision of Vocational Education and Training (VET) in Small Ethnic Minority Businesses (SEMBs) operating in the West Midlands region of the…

Finding the “right staff” in small firms

The purpose of this paper is to explore what owners of small firms are looking for from new employees. The aim is to pursue this in light of the debate around formality and…

Training approaches in manufacturing SMEs: Measuring the influence of ownership, structure and markets

This study aims to investigate the influence of a range of contingent factors that moderate the approaches to training in manufacturing SMEs.

How does IIP deliver the lifelong learning agenda to SMEs?

This paper seeks to discuss the Investors in People (IIP) initiative in relation to SMEs and to consider the value of IIP in helping to inculcate a learning culture within this…

Entrepreneurship education: A mechanism for engaging and exchanging with the small business sector

The focus of this paper is to highlight the synergies and mutual benefits associated with a range of entrepreneurship education initiatives for a combination of internal and…

“Learning to work” in small businesses: Learning and training for young adults with learning disabilities

The paper alerts small business employers to new dictates of the Disability Discrimination Act (2005) as it applies to learning disabilities. Then the “Learning to Work” project…

International perspectives on education, training and learning