Education + Training: Volume 61 Issue 2

Profiles of entrepreneurship students: implications for policy and practice

Creso Sá, Christopher Holt

While much research seeks to determine the impacts of entrepreneurship education on students, far less attention has been paid to students’ motivations and interests…

Evaluation of an entrepreneurship training programme: a proposal for new guidelines

Anderson Galvão, Carla Susana Marques, João Ferreira

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate an entrepreneurship training and education programme, which has already had five editions in the Sabor region of Portugal’s northern…

Attractiveness of Industrial Training Institutes (ITI) in India: A study on ITI students and their parents

Usha Ajithkumar, Matthias Pilz

The purpose of this paper is to conduct the study in two states of India to covers the perception of students and their parents about the attractiveness of Industrial Training…

The status of entrepreneurship education in Jordanian universities

Wejdan Alakaleek

The purpose of this paper is to examine the developmental level of entrepreneurship education within the context of Jordanian higher education. The level of development in such…

Learning whilst working: Perceptions on barriers and enablers to transfer of learning amongst part-time students on a professional MSc programme

Norma D’Annunzio-Green, Paul Barron

The purpose of this paper is to examine student learner perceptions of benefits, barriers and enablers in learning whilst working, specifically focussing, on learning transfer…

Do wages and job satisfaction really depend on educational mismatch? Evidence from an international sample of master graduates

Costanza Naguib, Moreno Baruffini, Rico Maggi

The purpose of this paper is to find econometric evidence of a negative influence of educational mismatch on either wage or job satisfaction, once potential sources of bias are…

The impact of digital technologies on vocational education and training needs: An exploratory study in the German food industry

Claudia Achtenhagen, Leona Achtenhagen

Currently, the hype surrounding digitalization proclaims that the way in which companies create and capture value will change dramatically. Companies that adjust their business…

Integrating and extending competing intention models to understand the entrepreneurial intention of senior university students

Riyad Eid, Amgad Badewi, Hassan Selim, Hatem El-Gohary

The growing interest in the development of entrepreneurial intention (EI) that has increased the importance of theories that explain and anticipate the tendency among individuals…

Empowering entrepreneurial education using undergraduate dissertations in business management and entrepreneurship: A five-year study (2012–2016)

Ángel Rodríguez-López, Jaime E. Souto

The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the discussion about entrepreneurship education through undergraduate dissertations (UDs). In order to achieve this objective, this…

Becoming a professional: A longitudinal qualitative study of the graduate transition in BSc Psychology

Peter Reddy, Rachel Shaw

Research into the experience of BSc Psychology students and graduates in the graduate transition was carried out to enquire if ontology is central to educational transformation;…