Higher Education, Skills and Work-Based Learning: Volume 9 Issue 3

Soft skill development for employability: A case study of stem graduate students at a Vietnamese transnational university

Christina W. Yao, Minerva D. Tuliao

The purpose of this paper is to explore graduate students’ perception of how soft skills are developed at a transnational university in Vietnam, and how these soft skills…

Soft skills for sustainable employment of business graduates of Bangladesh

Mansura Nusrat, Nafia Sultana

The purpose of this paper is to examine whether soft skill requirements found in employer job postings (advertisements) within different roles of business are similar to the soft…

Can you judge a book by its cover? Industrial doctorates in Portugal

Sónia Cardoso, Orlanda Tavares, Cristina Sin

Industrial doctorates have arisen in recent decades as a new form of doctoral education which has the potential to innovate the curriculum, among other things. Such programmes run…

University and graduates employability: Academics’ views regarding university activities (the case of Iran)

Mahtab Pouratashi, Asghar Zamani

A graduate must be qualified in order to be successful in the labor market. Hence, embedding employability into higher education is a priority of policymakers and universities…

Practice-based learning in the Tequila industry: the business school goes out of the classroom

Ruben Toledano-O’Farrill

The purpose of this paper is to present the methodology and results of practice-based learning in the Business School of a higher education institution (HEI) in Mexico, with a…

Embedding employability within higher education for the profession of policing

Ian Pepper, Ruth McGrath

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the impact of an employability module, the College of Policing Certificate in Knowledge of Policing (CKP), on students’ career…

A cold call on work-based learning: a “live” group project for the strategic selling classroom

Robert Lloyd, Michael J. Martin, James Hyatt, Addison Tritt

The purpose of this paper is to describe a case study used in a strategic sales class that employs the use of work-based learning pedagogy to expose students to real-life cold…

Is pharmacist pre-registration training equitable and robust?

Samuel David Jee, Ellen Ingrid Schafheutle, Peter Raymond Noyce

Against a backdrop of concerns regarding the quality and equity of the final practice-based pre-registration training year, the purpose of this paper is to examine how robust and…

Exploring women-only training program for gender equality and women’s continuous professional development in the workplace

Szufang Chuang

Women make up about half of the overall workforce, but they are still underrepresented in higher pay, leadership and senior-level positions. Literature indicated genders are…

Professional skills development for mathematics undergraduates

Ewan Russell, Peter Rowlett

The purpose of this paper is to describe the design and development of a final year undergraduate mathematics module designed to address professional skills development at a UK…

Entrepreneurial change in government-led development: Ethiopian universities

Huub L.M. Mudde, Meine Pieter van Dijk, Dugassa Tessema Gerba, Alemfrie Derese Chekole

The purpose of this paper is answer the research question to what extent Ethiopian universities can be considered to be entrepreneurial and explains possible differences among…

Exploring doctoral students’ expectations of work-based skills training

Jenny Candy, Padmali Rodrigo, Sarah Turnbull

Doctoral students are expected to undertake work-based skills training within their doctoral studies in areas such as problem solving, leadership and team working. The purpose of…

Grade point average vs competencies: which are most influential for employability?

Maria Jesus Freire-Seoane, Carlos Pais-Montes, Beatriz Lopez-Bermúdez

The purpose of this paper is to measure the combined influence that soft skills and Graduate Point Average (GPA) achievements have on the employability of higher education (HE…

Future-proofing placements: The importance of local opportunities for placement students

Julie Fowlie, Clare Forder

The purpose of this paper is to present a case study centred on steps taken at a Business School in a UK university, to improve local work placement provision, respond to student…

Developing generic skills at an Islamic higher education institution curriculum in Aceh, Indonesia

Safrul Muluk, Habiburrahim Habiburrahim, Teuku Zulfikar, Janice Orrell, Mujiburrahman Mujiburrahman

The purpose of this paper is to identify skills and attributes that should be included in developing curricula, especially in the area of education. In this case, English…

Perceived advantages and disadvantages of taking a psychology professional placement year

Helen St Clair-Thompson, Carla Chivers

It is well established that there are several benefits of taking a placement year, for example, higher academic attainment, the acquisition of transferable skills and enhanced…

Understanding self-efficacy and the dynamics of part-time work and career aspiration

Gbolahan Gbadamosi, Carl Evans, Mark Richardson, Yos Chanthana

Building on the self-efficacy theory and self-theories, the purpose of this paper is to investigate students working part-time whilst pursuing full-time higher education in…

Development of the Psychologist and Counsellor Self-Efficacy Scale

Helen M.G. Watt, John Ehrich, Sandra E. Stewart, Tristan Snell, Micaela Bucich, Nicky Jacobs, Brett Furlonger, Derek English

The purpose of this paper is to develop a professional self-efficacy scale for counsellors and psychologists encompassing identified competencies within professional standards…

Construction education in Ethiopia: Knowledge and skills level attained and effectiveness of internship program

Desalegn Girma Mengistu, Gangadhar Mahesh

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate knowledge and skills level of final-year students of undergraduate construction programs in Ethiopia and assess the effectiveness of…