Education + Training: Volume 48 Issue 6

A problem‐based learning approach to entrepreneurship education

Siok San Tan, C. K. Frank Ng

While it is generally acknowledged that entrepreneurship can be taught, many differ in their opinions about the appropriate methodologies to teach and equip students with the…

Modern apprenticeships in English professional football

Des Monk, Cliff Olsson

This paper will examine the two year modern apprenticeship undertaken by trainees in the English professional football industry.

Work‐based learning in the UK: scenarios for the future

Mohamed Mohamud, Chris Jennings, Mike Rix, Jeff Gold

Aims to consider scenarios created by work‐based learning (WBL) providers in the Tees Valley in the UK

Communication apprehension and maths anxiety as barriers to communication and numeracy skills development in accounting and business education

John Joyce, Trevor Hassall, José Luis Arquero Montaño, José Antonio Donoso Anes

To establish the existence of barriers to communication and numeracy skills development and to establish the levels of these exhibited by accounting and business students at the…

Employers lack the skills that young people need

Workplace learning “turned on its head” by new digital centre

Europe needs modernised universities, says European Commission

Euro-MPs welcome plans for European indicator of linguistic competences

Leonardo ambassadors: improving the quality of European vocational training

FE White Paper: the proposals in detail

Record numbers of 16-18 year olds in training

Education and training: more effort needed to meet Lisbon targets

Universities express fears over planned European Institute of Technology

British students missing out on opportunity to study abroad