Education + Training: Volume 62 Issue 4

The gap in soft skills perceptions: a dyadic analysis

Konstantinos Tsirkas, Alexandra-Paraskevi Chytiri, Nancy Bouranta

Previous studies have shown that soft skills play a significant role in applicants' employability and in the job search, recruitment, selection and hiring process. However, past…

Doctoral boot camps: from military concept to andragogy

Vikash Rowtho, Shafiiq Gopee, Alisha Hingun

The purpose of this paper is to study the use of writing boot camp cycles with differentiated facilitation in promoting a research culture within an academic setting by…

An entrepreneurial view of universal work-integrated learning

AnneMarie Dorland, David J. Finch, Nadège Levallet, Simon Raby, Stephanie Ross, Alexandra Swiston

Work-integrated learning (WIL) has emerged as a leading pedagogy that blends theory with application. In recent years, policymakers, educators and practitioners have called for a…

A tipping point analysis of service-learning hours and student outcomes

John Garger, Veselina P. Vracheva, Paul Jacques

Although extant literature links overstimulation to various job outcomes, most studies do not consider a service-learning context, and they suggest a linear association between…

Number of term-time working hours among undergraduate students

Tong Sheng Tan, Eivon Lim, Yiing Jia Loke

The purpose of this study is to investigate the prevalence of term-time employment among undergraduate students and to identify the factors that affect the number of working hours…

Student employment and school-to-work transition: the Russian case

Fedor Dudyrev, Olga Romanova, Pavel Travkin

The paradigm of school-to-work transition is changing, with an increasing number of students combining work and study. Furthermore, there exists some mixed evidence for the impact…

Witnessing entrepreneurial perceptions and proclivity in university students: Developing a process model

Alan Murray, Robert James Crammond

This paper analyses the transition of university students from initial perceptions of enterprise to potentially heightened levels of proclivity towards creative behaviours and…

Social loafing in group-based learning: student-created and instructor-created group perspectives

Rajesh Rajaguru, Roshni Narendran, Gayathri Rajesh

Social loafing is a key inhibitor in group-based student learning and is a key challenge in administering group-based assessments in higher education. This study examines…