Higher Education, Skills and Work-Based Learning: Volume 12 Issue 6

COVID-19 and entrepreneurship courses in Latin American universities: an analysis of satisfaction comparing students' and lecturers' perspectives

Gustavo Barrera-Verdugo, Gianni Romaní, Jaime Luis Cadena-Echeverría, Gisela I. Carrero-Morales, Gerardo Padín-Zamot

This study aims to investigate how the disruptive change from a face-to-face to an online teaching/learning modality due to COVID-19 has been perceived by students and lecturers…

E-learning programs in executive education: effects of perceived quality and perceived value on self-regulation and motivation

Ranjan Kumar

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of perceived quality and perceived value on learner motivation and engagement in executive education e-learning programs.

Trends in entrepreneurship education: a systematic literature review

Muhammad Salman Shabbir, Fatima Batool, Arshad Mahmood

This systematic literature review provides an overview of the entrepreneurship education research, by outlining the recent trends of research on entrepreneurship education. This…

Why executive board membership in academic clubs helps students get interviews

Bernard Dadario, Bret Sanner

The paper aims to improve students' job placements, higher education institutions invest considerable resources and their students spend considerable time in academic clubs. Yet…

Prioritization of risks associated with the implementation of project-based learning concept in engineering institutions

Bhaveshkumar Nandanram Pasi, Pallavi Vivek Dongare, Suman Joshi Rawat

This research article aims to prioritize the risks associated with the implementation of the project-based learning (PBL) concept in engineering institutions and develop possible…

Employability skills from employers' perspectives in indigenous contexts: empirical evidence

Amzad Hossain, Ying Kong, Harvey Briggs, Kim Laycock

This paper aims to analyze Northern Manitoba employers' indexes of employability skills that influence the UCN (University College of the North) students' employability in…

Examining the perspectives of adult working learners and key stakeholders using critical race theory

Gloria E. Jacobs, Jill Castek, Kathy Harris, Jen Vanek

This article reports on a critical race theory (CRT) analysis of the perspectives of providers of employer-supported educational opportunities and adult learners, who identified…

Not another team assignment! Student perceptions towards teamwork at university management programs

Shalini Ramdeo, Paul Balwant, Simon Harold Fraser

As group work is becoming more common in the classroom, teamwork as an andragogical tool continues to be problematic for students in management programs. The purpose of this paper…

Reducing inequality through institutional action: towards a process framework for student transition and support

Shamika Almeida, Nadeera Ranabahu, Reetu Verma

Much of the existing literature note how students' academic difficulties result from their background and lack of cultural capital. This paper aims to focus on internal structural…

Analysis of student attitudes towards cooperative learning in a collectivist culture: a case of South Korea

Hasan Tinmaz, Yunus Emre Ozturk

This study concentrates on South Korean university students' attitude towards cooperative learning by utilizing the “Student Attitudes toward Group Environments” survey (n…

Assessment framework for workforce agility in higher education institutions

Shalini Menon, M. Suresh

The higher education sector has been lately facing new challenges. The ease and speed with which the workforce adapts to these changes determine their agility level. This study…

Authentic assessment and work-based learning: the case of professional studies in a post-COVID Australia

Lee Fergusson, Luke van der Laan, Sophia Imran, Patrick Alan Danaher

To explore the conceptualisation and operationalisation of authentic assessment in work-based learning and research.