Higher Education, Skills and Work-Based Learning: Volume 10 Issue 3

Identification of key employability attributes and evaluation of university graduates’ performance: Instrument development and validation

Jawad Abbas, Mustafa Sagsan

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the managers’ views on the characteristics which university graduates should have to obtain the job and efficiently perform in Chinese…

Effects of interdisciplinary courses on future engineers' competency

Hyunjung Rhee, Jinyoung Han, Minha Lee, Young-Wan Choi

This study explores the effects of interdisciplinary education on engineering students by observing students' competencies before and after the programme.

Design incubatees' perspectives and experiences in Hong Kong

Tiffany W.M. FONG

This paper discusses the services and support from one of the government design-based business incubators in Hong Kong. The characteristics of a design business incubator are…

Knowledge sharing in multicultural organizations: evidence from Pakistan

Irfan Raza, Zainudin Awang

Taking higher educational institutes (HEIs) operating in Islamabad metropolitan, and Pakistan as research context, the purpose of this paper is to identify the antecedents of…

Skills in European higher education mobility programmes: outlining a conceptual framework

Soraya Garcia-Esteban, Stefan Jahnke

Credit mobility has been acknowledged not only to broaden personal and intellectual horizons but also to have positive effects on the skills development and employability of…

Promoting career awareness among IT students in a South African context

J.T. Janse van Rensburg, Roelien Goede

The purpose of this paper is to present an intervention strategy for promoting career awareness among IT students in a South African context, followed by a reflection thereof…

Lifelong learning mindset and career success: evidence from the field of accounting and finance

David W. Drewery, Robert Sproule, T. Judene Pretti

The purpose of this article is to examine the relationship between a lifelong learning mindset and career success. A lifelong learning mindset is a way of approaching one's work…

ECLECTIC 4.0: the new learning model for business schools

Sowmya Sathya

Current learning models need to change to facilitate learners acquiring and assimilating the competencies required for the future work scenario. The purpose of this paper is to…

Employability skills for 21st-century STEM students: the employers' perspective

Doreen McGunagle, Laura Zizka

One of the goals of educational institutions is to prepare their graduates to be workplace-ready. The purpose of this paper is to identify the employability skills lacking in the…