Education + Training: Volume 64 Issue 6

Industrial attachment and human capital of higher education students: constraints of Ghanaian technical universities

Victor Fannam Nunfam, Norbert Adja Kwabena Adjei, Hafiz Adam, John Frank Eshun

The paucity of empirical evidence on the limitations of the industrial attachment programme of technical universities for enhancing students' human capital in Africa tends to…

Is there a gender difference in STEM students' perceived employability?

Dawn Bennett, Sherry Bawa, Subramaniam Ananthram, Tim Pitman

The study sought to determine whether there are gender differences in self-perceived employability of students enrolled in Australian higher education science, technology…

Motivating university management students on studying research methods: influence of career applicability, and emotional and cognitive interests

Anne L.L. Tang, Vincent Tung, Tiffany Cheng

This paper aims to examine the relationships between undergraduate management students’ emotional interest (EI) and cognitive interest (CI) in research methods (RMs), the…

Flexible future learning opportunities for built environment professionals – a case study

Joanna Poon

This paper discusses the redevelopment of MSc Civil Engineering and Construction Management of a modern university in the Midlands of the UK in recent years, with the aim to offer…

Agile methodologies in times of pandemic: acquisition of employment skills in higher education

Pedro Canales-Ronda, Cristina Aragonés-Jericó

This research aims to focus on analysing the opinion of university students on the effects that agile methodologies are having on their education during this time of pandemic that…

Together we can: enhancing key 21st-century skills with international virtual exchange

Javier Sierra, Mazia Yassim, Ángela Suárez-Collado

This research reveals how a virtual exchange (VE) can foster transnational collaboration in higher education, assist students acquire key learning outcomes and raise awareness…

A systematic review of measures of employability

Samiksha Neroorkar

The purpose of this paper is to review empirical research on the measurement of employability, conducted in a 23-year period from 2000 to 2022.