Education + Training: Volume 60 Issue 9

A new perspective: consumer values and the consumption of physical activity

Nicola Jayne Williams-Burnett, Paula Kearns

Physical inactivity is a global pandemic and is the fourth biggest cause of death worldwide. Numerous campaigns and initiatives have been implemented globally but yet…

Emotional intelligence towards entrepreneurial career choice behaviours

Norasmah Othman, Tengku Nor Asma Amira Tengku Muda

The purpose of this paper is to assess emotional intelligence levels and their contributions to entrepreneurial career choice behaviours among Malaysian public university students.

Learning style preferences of undergraduate students: The case of the American University of Ras Al Khaimah, the United Arab Emirates

Darwish Abdulrahman Yousef

The purpose of this paper is to address the use of Honey and Mumford’s Learning Styles Questionnaire (LSQ) to investigate the learning style preferences of undergraduate students…

Factors influencing career choice of tertiary students in Ghana: A comparison of science and business majors

Godfred M.Y. Owusu, Anthony Essel-Anderson, Teddy Ossei Kwakye, Rita Amoah Bekoe, Charles Gyamfi Ofori

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the factors that influence Ghanaian tertiary students’ career choices. The paper explores the dimensionality of the career choice…

Productivity benefits of employer-sponsored training: A study of the Australia transport and logistics industry

Prem Chhetri, Victor Gekara, Alex Manzoni, Alan Montague

The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of employer-sponsored workforce training on employee productivity in the Australian transport and logistics industry. It…

Peer mentoring in entrepreneurship education: towards a role typology

Elin Kubberød, Siw M. Fosstenløkken, Per Olav Erstad

The purpose of this paper is to explore the contributions of peer mentoring as a learning support for mentee students in higher entrepreneurship education.

Student success in teams: intervention, cohesion and performance

Glen Croy, Nathan Eva

The purpose of this paper is to design and test an online team intervention for university students, focusing on communication, leadership and team processes, to influence team…

Quality higher education drives employability in the Middle East

Diane Nauffal, Jennifer Skulte-Ouaiss

The purpose of this paper is to analyse and explain the high rates of employability of one group of Middle East youth by focussing on liberal arts and soft skills education as an…

Teaching marketing to non-marketers: some experiences from New Zealand and the UK

James M. Crick

The purpose of this paper is to explore how marketing can be taught to students originating from non-marketing or non-business backgrounds (non-marketers), so that academics can…

Internationalisation strategy, faculty response and academic preparedness for transnational teaching: The significance of pre-departure training

Tasawar Nawaz

Transnational education (TNE), interpreted as the mobility of education programmes and providers between countries, has grown exponentially as a worldwide phenomenon in recent…

The employability skills of graduates and employers’ options in Portugal: An explorative study of anticipative and remedial strategies

Fátima Suleman, Ana Maria Costa Laranjeiro

Available literature overlooks the factors that affect employers’ opinions of the skills graduates bring to the labour market. The purpose of this paper is to examine the…