Education + Training: Volume 65 Issue 8/9

STEM education in England: questioning the “leaky pipeline” metaphor

Pallavi Banerjee, Luke Graham

The skillsets of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) graduates are widely recognised to be important for economic prosperity. At the same time, it is broadly…

Validation of measurement scales for undergraduate students' self-perceived employability and university commitment in the United Arab Emirates

Aizhan Shomotova, Ali Ibrahim

The purpose of this study is to validate the psychometric properties of the Self-Perceived Employability Scale in the context of the United Arab Emirates (UAE-SPE) and to verify…

Changing the perception of core competency using student journey – tracking research on the core competencies of EECS students in technological universities

Jen-Chia Chang, Hsiao-Fang Shih, Yu-Hsien Yu

In this study a survey with a questionnaire was used to track the learning situation and core competencies of students in electrical engineering and computer science at the…

Girls in the combined cadet force: a qualitative exploration of the impact of their experiences on their graduate employability skills

Lisa Grant, Julia Yates

Every year several thousand female cadets participate in the Combined Cadet Force (CCF) in the UK, but little is known about the impact that this experience has on the subsequent…

Executive perceptions of course and educator performance on flipped classroom

Ricardo Luiz Pereira Bueno, Fernando Antonio Ribeiro Serra, Isabel Cristina Scafuto

This article aims to examine the related effects between out-of-class activities, mediated by in-class activities, on the perception of course and teacher performance in a flipped…

The entrepreneurial mindset in entrepreneurship education: what can we learn from S-O-R models?

Inge Birkbak Larsen, Per Blenker, Helle Neergaard

The aim of this paper is to examine the usefulness of the stimulus-organism-response (S-O-R) model for systematizing and further exploring the knowledge of the role of…

Education and training for industry 4.0: a case study of a manufacturing ecosystem

Greg Hearn, Penny Williams, Jose Hilario Pereira Rodrigues, Melinda Laundon

The purpose of this paper is to explore the approaches to education and training adopted by manufacturing organisations to identify and develop a set of learning principles for…