Education + Training: Volume 63 Issue 4

Strive towards a good performance or avoid a failure performance in entrepreneurship education: a look into growth and independence-oriented intentions

Michela Loi, Barbara Barbieri, Manuel Castriotta, Maria Chiara Di Guardo

Prior studies on entrepreneurial intention have shown that different orientations exist regarding entrepreneurial engagement: one looking at the growth of a venture…

In search for shared content and design in supervision training: a syllabus analysis in Sweden

Eva Davidsson, Martin Stigmar

Previous research has pointed to a lack of studies concerning supervision training courses. Consequently, the literature has little to suggest, and the research field is…

Marketing students' meta-skills and employability: between the lines of social capital in the context of the teaching excellence framework

Linda Anne Barkas, Jonathan Matthew Scott, Karen Hadley, Yvonne Dixon-Todd

The purpose of this article is to examine the role of social capital and higher order meta-skills in developing the employability of marketing students at a UK university.

Postgraduate students' experiences and perspectives on transformation of teaching and learning in tertiary education

Solomon Arulraj David, Christopher Hill

Tertiary education has been going through dramatic transformation in recent times. Such transformation is seen in teaching and learning at tertiary education. This study…

Perceived quality of internships and employability perceptions: the mediating role of career-entry worries

Katharina Ebner, Roman Soucek, Eva Selenko

This study illuminates the assumption that internships facilitate labor market entry and answers the question of why internships have a positive effect on students' self-perceived…

Multiculturalism, positive psychological capital and students' entrepreneurial intentions

Ahmet Maslakcı, Harun Sesen, Lütfi Sürücü

Globalisation has made higher education increasingly multicultural. Although multicultural university students' attitudes and interactions with different cultures affect their…

Incubating innovation in university settings: building entrepreneurial mindsets in the future generation of innovative emerging market leaders

Virginia Bodolica, Martin Spraggon

One of the most discernible initiatives of entrepreneurial universities constitutes the launch of innovation centers, where students and alumni can incubate their business ideas…

The skill needs of the manufacturing industry: can higher education keep up?

Oran Doherty, Simon Stephens

This paper explores the implications for higher education of the rapid development in technology used by the manufacturing sector. Higher education programmes change or new…

Developing professional networks: the missing link to graduate employability

Peter English, Margarietha Johanna de Villiers Scheepers, David Fleischman, Jacqueline Burgess, Gail Crimmins

Responding to increasing external pressure, universities are developing new strategies to illustrate the impact of their degrees on graduate employability. This paper investigates…