Higher Education, Skills and Work-Based Learning: Volume 11 Issue 3

A worldwide bibliometric and network analysis of work-based learning research

Jacks Bezerra, Fábio Batista Mota, Michele Waltz Comarú, Luiza Amara Maciel Braga, Leonardo Fernandes Moutinho Rocha, Paulo Roberto Carvalho, Luís Alexandre da Fonseca Tinoca, Renato Matos Lopes

During the last few years there has been an increase of interest in work-based learning (WBL), which can be understood as a process of both developing workplace skills and…

What do we mean by “transferable skills”? A literature review of how the concept is conceptualized in undergraduate health sciences education

Kristoffer Brix Olesen, Mette Krogh Christensen, Lotte Dyhrberg O'Neill

Due to rapid changes in the future labor market, transferable skills are recognized as a vital learning outcome for students in undergraduate higher education. However…

Developing WIL curriculum which enhances hospitality students capabilities

Janine Williamson, Karina Wardle, Hazreel Hasmi

To satisfy multiple stakeholders’ employability goals, higher education providers have introduced Work Integrated Learning (WIL) programs to provide opportunities for students to…

Exploring technology attitudes and personal–cultural orientations as student readiness factors for digitalised work

Todd J.B. Blayone, Olena Mykhailenko, Svetlana Usca, Anda Abuze, Ihor Romanets, Mykhailo Oleksiiv

Emerging forms of digitalisation are placing new demands on workforce entrants around the globe. This study, catalysed by innovation programs in Ukraine and Latvia…

Students’ continuing personal development (S-CPD) - a scheme to promote student engagement in extra-curricular activities

Pei Cheng Ooi

This paper presents an overview of a lifelong learning scheme. It outlines the design of the scheme that was initially targeted for electrical and electronic engineering students…

Supply chain workforce training: addressing the digital skills gap

Abbas Foroughi

The purpose of this research was to address the critical need for supply chain workforce training to empower employees to use new digital technologies and to identify and evaluate…

When things go wrong: the implications for facilitators of work integrated learning placements in international destinations

Deborah Agnew, Elizabeth Abery, Sam Schulz, Shane Pill

International work integrated learning (iWIL) placements for university students are widely promoted within universities. However, they cannot be offered and sustained without a…

Graduate employability post-COVID-19: the case of a Malaysian public university

Muhammad Iqmal Hisham Kamaruddin, Azuan Ahmad, Mohd Asri Husain, Saffa Nasuha Abd Hamid

This study presents an effort to identify and understand the impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on the graduate employability (GE) of Universiti Sains…

International work integrated learning (WIL) in undergraduate paramedicine programs: a cross-sectional survey of practice models in Australasia

Sarah Johnson, Liz Thyer, Paul Simpson

The proliferation of undergraduate paramedicine programs has led to a surge in demand for work integrated learning (WIL), placing pressure on domestic ambulance service placement…

Industry instructors' perspective on internship implementation strategy

Chun-Chi Lan

The perspectives of industry instructors from a case enterprise were adopted to analyze various contexts of internship implementation and to examine feasible strategies for…

Cultivating interdisciplinary team creativity through an intensive design competition

Soo Jeoung Han, Mehrangiz Abadi, Bora Jin, Jie Chen

The authors examined team-learning processes in short-term student project teams operating in an intensive design competition at a public university. The purpose of this paper is…