Education + Training: Volume 64 Issue 1

Business students and work-life: mind the gaps!

Cookie M. Govender, Terje I. Vaaland

This paper aims to identify challenges in business school and business collaboration when implementing work-integrated learning (WIL) as a vehicle to enhance student work-life…

A design science approach to developing and evaluating items for the assessment of transversal professional competences

Florian Fahrenbach

Relying on a design science paradigm, the purpose of this paper is to describe the development and evaluation of items for an ICT artefact that supports the assessment of…

An examination of comparative perspectives on international internships

Uraiporn Kattiyapornpong, Shamika Almeida

Work integrated learning (WIL) activities, especially internships, are essential for career preparation and development. This paper applies career adaptability and capital…

Enterprise education: pre-service further education teachers' impressions and aspirations

Peter Tiernan, Jane O’Kelly

The purpose of this paper is to examine the attitudes and impressions of pre-service Further Education teachers towards enterprise education. It also looks at the potential impact…

Design, implementation and academic perspectives on authentic assessment for applied business higher education in a top performing Asian economy

Mohammadreza Akbari, Hung Manh Nguyen, Robert McClelland, Kristof Van Houdt

The purpose of authentic assessment can enrich students with a set of skills that can have a significant impact on their employability. The key aim of these actions is to equip…

How to develop higher education curricula towards employability? A multi-stakeholder approach

Daniela Olo, Leonida Correia, Conceição Rego

This paper aims to find out what conditions are needed to enhance higher education curricula towards employability from the perspective of different stakeholders in the graduate…

Entrepreneurship education, entrepreneurial self-efficacy, need for achievement and entrepreneurial intention among commerce students in Pakistan

Bahadur Ali Soomro, Naimatullah Shah

The present study undertook an empirical investigation of entrepreneurship education, self-efficacy, need for achievement and entrepreneurial intention among Pakistan's commerce…

A disruptive model for delivering higher education programs within the context of entrepreneurship education

Gerrit Anton de Waal, Alex Maritz

The purpose of this practitioner paper is to explore whether the principles of Design Thinking and the Lean Startup could be employed in developing a disruptive model for…

Construction and validation of the employability questionnaire for accounting graduates

Nabil Ahmed Mareai Senan, M.M. Sulphey

Globally, serious doubts are now expressed about the quality of accounting education, and employers are concerned about the lack of employability among graduates. There is a lack…