Education + Training: Volume 62 Issue 3

Constructing construction careers: the case for the building trades

Gerard Callanan, David Perri

This paper discusses the well-publicized labor shortages in the building trades, reviews the causes for the deficiencies, and presents prescriptions for how career counselors and…

Career training with mentoring programs in higher education: Facilitating career development and employability of graduates

Ugochukwu Chinonso Okolie, Chinyere Augusta Nwajiuba, Michael Olayinka Binuomote, Christian Ehiobuche, Ntasiobi Chikezie Nwankwo Igu, Ogungboyega Suliyat Ajoke

This study explores how career training with mentoring (CTM) programs work in Nigerian higher education (HE) institutions to foster students' career development and employability…

University-led internships for innovative thinking: a theoretical framework

Nadeera Ranabahu, Shamika Almeida, Elias Kyriazis

This article explains how business internships can be used to develop innovation skills in undergraduates.

Behind the scenes: spotlight on the entrepreneurship educator

Birgitte Wraae, Andreas Walmsley

Explores the role of the entrepreneurship educator and their place in the entrepreneurship education landscape.

Interagency collaboration for graduate employment opportunities in Uganda: Gaps in the structure of organizations

Peter Ntale, Jude Ssempebwa, Badiru Musisi, Muhammed Ngoma, Gyaviira Musoke Genza, Joseph Kimoga, Christopher Byalusaago Mugimu, Joseph Mpeera Ntayi, Wasswa Balunywa

The purpose of this paper is to identify gaps in the structure of organizations that hinder collaboration of organizations involved in the creation of graduate employment…

Factors affecting business graduates' employability–empirical evidence using partial least squares (PLS)

Md Moazzem Hossain, Manzurul Alam, Mohammed Alamgir, Amirus Salat

The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between skills and employability of business graduates. The study also examines the moderating effect of ‘social mobility…

Student internship experiences: learning about the workplace

Sarah M. Zehr, Russell Korte

The purpose of this study was to explore the experiences of engineering student interns, as well as the perceptions of internship supervisors.

Do intentions ever die? The temporal stability of entrepreneurial intention and link to behavior

Sanna Joensuu-Salo, Anmari Viljamaa, Elina Varamäki

This study aims to contribute to entrepreneurial intention research by examining the theory of planned behavior model in a longitudinal follow-up of the same individuals from a…

An empirical investigation on learning and teaching lean manufacturing

Guilherme Luz Tortorella, Rogério Miorando, Diego Fettermann, Diego Tlapa Mendoza

This article identifies the association between two methods for teaching lean manufacturing (LM): problem-based learning (PBL) and classroom lectures, and students' learning…