Higher Education, Skills and Work-Based Learning: Volume 8 Issue 2

Editorial

Ruth Helyer

A View on the Most Change in Vocational and Technical Education in England for a Generation

Adrian Anderson

Exploring student satisfaction and future employment intentions: A case study examination: is there a link between satisfaction and getting a job?

Melissa James, Dongkoo Yun

The purpose of this paper is to explore the factors that affect higher education student satisfaction and to understand students’ perceptions of their academic success and future…

Integrated work-based placements – shifting the paradigm

Sara Smith

The role of higher education institutions in enhancing capability development of the healthcare professionals workforce has resulted in work-based learning becoming an essential…

Employability, work placements, and outward mobility: views from England and Germany

Julie Fowlie, Clare Forder

A central role of UK higher education institutes is preparing graduates for the global economy. However, UK outward mobility targets for students set in 2017 remain lower than the…

Re-thinking employability with a literacies lens: From skills to practices, from tool-kits to ethnography

Alexandra Kendall, Amanda French

The purpose of this paper is to draw on the outcomes of an Higher Education Academy funded project, Literacies for Employability (L4E) to contribute to discussion of the interface…

Nursing and learning – healthcare pedagogics and work-integrated learning

Sandra Pennbrant, Lars Svensson

The purpose of this paper is twofold: to describe work-integrated learning (WIL) related to healthcare pedagogics, and to describe the distinctive aspects of research on WIL with…

Employability outcomes for university joint honours graduates

Louise Pigden, Andrew Garford Moore

In the UK, the vast majority of university students specialise and study just one subject at bachelor degree level, commonly known in the UK as a single honours degree. However…

Doctorateness and the DBA: what next?

Brian Poole

The purpose of this paper is to examine the extent to which Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) programmes currently offered by UK universities are appropriate to the needs of…