Higher Education, Skills and Work-Based Learning: Volume 8 Issue 4

The effect of supervised work experience on the acquisition of employability skills among Malaysian students

Sharifah Kamaliah, Samsilah Roslan, Ab Rahim Bakar, Zeinab Ghiami

The vocational education and training (VET) system needs a future change in order to be more accountable to employers (and their associations) for training outcomes that match…

Trainees' perception of vocational training institutes degree apprenticeship: An empirical approach

Vasiliki Brinia, Petros Stavropoulos, Anastasia Athanasoula-Reppa

The purpose of this paper is to investigate how the degree apprenticeship of the vocational training institutes (VTIs) enhances the labor market and enables the trainees to detect…

Perceived value of internship experience: a try before you leap

Sonali Bhattacharya, Netra Neelam

The purpose of this paper is to examine how internship value is manifested in the context of a business school. The authors have examined the internship experience in terms of…

Using sociocultural insights to enhance work-integrated learning

Jenny Fleming, Neil J. Haigh

When learning in the workplace is conceptualised as a social process, different social or cultural features of workplaces may enable or constrain students’ learning. The purpose…

The challenges and opportunities of ICT in WIL: A case study among priests exploring the correlation and trajectory between effective WIL and ICT pervasiveness

Trevor Gerhardt, Linda Mackenzie-Philps

Programmes and courses integrating learning and work, captured generally in this paper as work integrated learning (WIL), usually provide flexible and innovative learning…

The practice of professional skills and civic engagement through service learning: A Taiwanese perspective

Shuhui Sophy Cheng

The purpose of this paper is to explore the community service learning initiative among Taiwanese communication students by examining the link between the value of work-based…

Internships in China: exploring contextual perspectives

Philip Rose

Globally internships have become an increasingly pervasive means by which to enhance university learning and graduate employability. Whilst this practice has crossed national…

Local economic development and the skills gap: observations on the case of Tampa, Florida

Robert W. Robertson

The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the “skills gap” concerns that are increasingly prevalent in the USA and globally. In particular, the paper explores the…

Improving employment outcomes of career and technical education students

Sitalakshmi Venkatraman, Tony de Souza-Daw, Samuel Kaspi

In this rapidly changing world, we are experiencing the fourth industrial revolution, known as “Industry 4.0,” that requires education systems to redesign qualifications in order…

The convergence of National Professional Qualifications in educational leadership and master’s level study

Steve Lambert

In 2017 the UK Government decided that the suite of National Professional Qualifications (National Professional Qualifications for Middle Leadership, National Professional…

Total Interpretive Structural Modelling of predictors for graduate employability for the information technology sector

Nidhi Sehgal, Saboohi Nasim

The purpose of this paper is to present a qualitative analysis of the significant factors that influence graduate employability in information technology (IT) sector. This is…

Quality of teachers in technical higher education institutions in India

Payal Sharma, Jagwinder Singh Pandher

The quality of education depends upon the quality of teachers, i.e. professional competence. The purpose of this paper is to empirically identify the state of faculty’s quality in…

Appropriation of foreign approaches for sustainable development and transformational changes in Vietnamese vocational education

Tien Thi Hanh Ho, Ly Thi Tran

Vietnam’s 11th National Party Congress prioritised integration, modernisation and industrialisation as the new key orientations for Vietnam. It outlined Vietnam’s integration with…

Enablers for good placements of graduates: fitting industry’s needs

Rekha Attri, Pooja Kushwaha

Companies are looking for certain employability attributes and personality traits while recruiting and selecting suitable candidates for their organizations and there is a…