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Direct linkGemici, Sinan; Curtis, David D. – Education & Training, 2012
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the effectiveness of participation in workplace learning among senior secondary students in Australia. Work placements are deemed to be effective if they meet policy objectives of improving student transitions by (a) enhancing Year 12 completion rates and (b) increasing the engagement of…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Part Time Employment, Foreign Countries, Vocational Education
Law, Philip; Yuen, Desmond – Education & Training, 2012
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to examine the influence of factors affecting students' choice of accounting as a study major in Hong Kong. Design/methodology/approach: Multinomial logistic regression and Hierarchical Generalized Linear Modeling (HGLM) are used to analyze the survey data for the level one and level two data, which is the…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Accounting
Rosenberg, Stuart; Heimler, Ronald; Morote, Elsa-Sofia – Education & Training, 2012
Purpose: This paper seeks to examine the basic employability skills needed for job performance, the reception of these skills in college, and the need for additional training in these skills after graduation. Design/methodology/approach: The research was based on a triangular design approach, in which the attitudes of three distinct groups--recent…
Descriptors: Employment Potential, Job Performance, College Graduates, Program Effectiveness
Robotham, David – Education & Training, 2012
Purpose: The aim of the paper is to examine the consequences of students engaging in part-time employment during their studies. It reports the results of a survey of part-time employment among university students. The research examined the possible consequences of combining part-time employment with full-time study, with particular reference to…
Descriptors: Part Time Employment, Academic Achievement, Student Employment, College Students
Fearon, Colm; McLaughlin, Heather; Eng, Tan Yoke – Education & Training, 2012
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to discuss the value of social learning from group work that emulates a professional community of practice. Design/methodology/approach: A thought piece that first, examines the role of group-work projects as part of social learning, then outlines key arguments for social learning based upon applying a…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Higher Education, Socialization, Student Projects
Broadbent, Robyn; Cacciattolo, Marcelle; Papadopoulos, Theo – Education & Training, 2012
Purpose: Career programmes within secondary school curriculum can impact on a young person's sense of direction and meaning in life. The purpose of this paper is to report on an evaluation that was conducted in 2009 of the careers programmes in one secondary college in the western suburbs of Melbourne. Design/methodology/approach: The research…
Descriptors: Evidence, Urban Schools, Student Attitudes, Focus Groups
Rosti, Luisa; Chelli, Francesco – Education & Training, 2012
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to verify whether higher education increases the likelihood of young Italian workers moving from non-standard to standard wage contracts. Design/methodology/approach: The authors exploit a data set on labour market flows, produced by the Italian National Statistical Office, by interviewing about 85,000…
Descriptors: Wages, Higher Education, Labor Market, Graduates
Gapp, Rod; Fisher, Ron – Education & Training, 2012
Purpose: There are a number of factors that are essential to understanding the pedagogy, learning and knowledge requirements of developing virtual platforms for delivering effective course interaction using the World Wide Web (the web). The purpose of this paper is to focus on web-based group work amongst undergraduate management students, during…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Focus Groups, Internet, Information Dissemination
Renganathan, Sumathi; Karim, Zainal Ambri Bin Abdul; Li, Chong Su – Education & Training, 2012
Purpose: An important aspect of an academic curriculum in higher learning institutions for technical disciplines is the industrial internship programme for students. The purpose of this paper is to investigate students' perception of the effectiveness of an industrial internship programme offered by a private technological university in Malaysia.…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Academic Education, Measures (Individuals), Foreign Countries
Gilbert, David H. – Education & Training, 2012
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the notion of designing and developing applied, industry-engaged learning environments that embrace ambiguity and uncertainty in overcoming pedagogical inertia in educating young entrepreneurs and innovators. The research reported on proposes a solution to the dual expectations of producing…
Descriptors: World Problems, Self Efficacy, Figurative Language, College Graduates
Sligo, Frank – Education & Training, 2012
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the challenges faced by tutors who were providing remedial literacy support to New Zealand apprentices. Design/methodology/approach: As part of a wider, triangulated study of employers, tutors, apprentices, and industry training coordinators, the author undertook a qualitative analysis of ten…
Descriptors: Role Conflict, Figurative Language, Foreign Countries, Tutors
Kim, Hye Jeong; Pederson, Susan; Baldwin, Moira – Education & Training, 2012
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine students' experiences with a case-enhanced e-learning environment in a higher-education institute. Design/methodology/approach: In total, 67 graduate students volunteered to take part in this experiment. The participants were assigned to treatment groups using tutorial with case-based learning (CBL)…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Graduate Students, User Satisfaction (Information), Self Efficacy
Bolton, Dawn Langkamp; Lane, Michelle D. – Education & Training, 2012
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to develop a measurement instrument for individual entrepreneurial orientation to be used to measure the entrepreneurial orientation of students and other individuals. Design/methodology/approach: A measure of Individual Entrepreneurial Orientation (IEO) was generated, validated, and then tested on 1,100…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Measures (Individuals), Factor Analysis, Entrepreneurship
Ayarkwa, Joshua; Adinyira, Emmanuel; Osei-Asibey, Dickson – Education & Training, 2012
Purpose: The industrial training component in a university's curricula adds tremendous value to a degree programme by enhancing the employable skills of graduates. The purpose of this paper is to assess the perception of organisations that have trained construction students from the Department of Building Technology of the Kwame Nkrumah University…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Employees, Construction Industry, Industrial Training
Jackson, Denise; Chapman, Elaine – Education & Training, 2012
Purpose: The need for "job-ready" graduates has catalysed the development of non-technical skills in higher education institutions worldwide. Continued criticism of business school outcomes has provoked this examination of non-technical skill deficiencies in Australian business graduates. The purpose of this paper is to compare findings with…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Job Skills, Achievement Gap, Skill Analysis
