Education + Training: Volume 63 Issue 6

Education as a key to provide the growth of entrepreneurial intentions

Ana Pinto Borges, João M. Lopes, Catarina Carvalho, Bruno Miguel Vieira, Jorge Lopes

The purpose of this study is to analyze the entrepreneurial intentions of higher education students in a private higher education institution (HEI), enrolled in the following…

Teaching marketing to non-marketing majors: tools to enhance their engagement and academic performance

James M. Crick, Dave Crick

While there has been a significant amount of work involving marketing education, it is unclear how faculty members can increase the engagement and achievement of non-subject…

What makes better career opportunities for young graduates? Examining acquired employability skills in higher education institutions

Peggy M.L. Ng, Jason K. Y. Chan, Tai Ming Wut, Man Fung Lo, Irene Szeto

The purpose of this paper is to develop a conceptual model to examine key employability skills that match workplace requirements and foster employability.

Evaluating the impact of social enterprise education on students' enterprising characteristics in the United Arab Emirates

Naveed Yasin, Zeinab Khansari

This study evaluates the effectiveness of an enterprise education (social innovation and enterprise) learning programme on the enterprising characteristics among interdisciplinary…

Linkages between entrepreneurial intentions and entrepreneurship education: new evidence on the gender imbalance

Helen Efstratios Salavou, Georgios Chalkos, Spyros Lioukas

Embracing the theories of gender role and career socialization, this study focuses on young adults and explores gender differences in entrepreneurial intentions and…

The HEXACO, academic motivation and learning approaches: evidence from a central Asian country

Monowar Mahmood, Yuliya Frolova, Bhumika Gupta

Personality traits are assumed to influence cognitive processes as well as academic motivation and learning approaches of the students. Based on these assumptions, the present…

Employability tautological trauma

Carol Elaine Cuthbert, F. Owen Skae

This paper explores the institutional and economic drivers of employability, as existing literature focuses on the individual and skills aspects, of employability. Tertiary…

Improving graduateness: addressing the gap between employer needs and graduate employability in Palestine

Nadine Nabulsi, Beverley McNally, Grace Khoury

This research paper seeks to identify multiple stakeholder perceptions relating to the level of graduateness of a group of business school graduates in Palestine.