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Salavou, Helen Efstratios; Chalkos, Georgios; Lioukas, Spyros – Education & Training, 2021
Purpose: Embracing the theories of gender role and career socialization, this study focuses on young adults and explores gender differences in entrepreneurial intentions and entrepreneurship education. Design/methodology/approach: Based on 203 young adults, this study employs a logistic regression model to test hypothesis 1 regarding differences…
Descriptors: Correlation, Entrepreneurship, Intention, Gender Differences
Tiernan, Peter; O'Kelly, Jane – Education & Training, 2022
Purpose: 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 on their future teaching practices and aspirations. This study builds on the literature in this area by bringing a teacher education focus and by providing…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Relevance (Education)
Ratten, Vanessa; Jones, Paul – Education & Training, 2018
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to introduce an entrepreneurial learning approach to the study of sport education in order to inform future research directions. Design/methodology/approach: Sport education needs to focus on how it can overcome existing barriers to bring a more interdisciplinary approach. This paper uses entrepreneurship…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Teaching Methods, Athletics, Team Sports
Lackéus, Martin; Williams Middleton, Karen – Education & Training, 2015
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore how university-based entrepreneurship programs, incorporating real-life venture creation into educational design and delivery, can bridge the gap between entrepreneurship education and technology transfer within the university environment. Design/methodology/approach: Based on a literature review…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Entrepreneurship, Business Administration Education, Technology Transfer
Tiernan, Peter – Education & Training, 2016
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of enterprise education on students' understanding of and attitudes to entrepreneurship and enterprise education in initial teacher education. Design/methodology/approach: This paper builds on current literature by introducing student teachers to the theory and practice of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teacher Education, Entrepreneurship, Student Teacher Attitudes
Helyer, Ruth; Lee, Dionne – Education & Training, 2012
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the issues around a multiple generational workforce and more specifically, the challenges and benefits for education providers and employers. Design/methodology/approach: Reviewing research papers, analysing academic texts, interrogating market intelligence and contextualising case studies, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Baby Boomers, Employment Patterns, Aging (Individuals)
Alden Rivers, Bethany; Nie, Ming; Armellini, Alejandro – Education & Training, 2015
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to report on a study aimed at understanding the different conceptions that University of Northampton teachers hold of "Changemaker", an institutional initiative to develop capacities for social innovation. Design/methodology/approach: The study took a phenomenographic approach to identify a small…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Qualitative Research
Hussain, Javed; Matlay, Harry; Scott, Jonathan M. – Education & Training, 2008
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to set out to evaluate the financial education needs of ethnic minority SMEs in the West Midlands region of the United Kingdom. Design/methodology/approach: A postal survey was used to investigate the financial needs of owner/managers in 64 ethnic minority SMEs and a control sample of 23 non-ethnic SMEs.…
Descriptors: Financial Needs, Foreign Countries, Minority Groups, Small Businesses
Volkov, Arabella; Volkov, Michael – Education & Training, 2015
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the understanding of the development of students' skills in the context of team-based learning. Academics have heeded the call to incorporate team learning activities into the curricula, yet little is known of student perception of teamwork and whether they view it as beneficial to them and…
Descriptors: Teamwork, Cooperative Learning, College Students, Student Attitudes
Gloria Hongyee Chan – Education & Training, 2024
Purpose: The significance of digital literacy in online social capital accumulation and surviving the contemporary society is widely recognised. Despite that the current generation is regarded as "digital natives", their levels and nature of digital literacy vary. To generate educational insights, this study investigates the type(s) of…
Descriptors: Digital Literacy, Internet, Social Capital, Socioeconomic Background
Gloster, Rosie; Buzzeo, Jonathan; Cox, Annette; Bertram, Christine; Tassinari, Arianna; Schmidtke, Kelly Ann; Vlaev, Ivo – Education & Training, 2018
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the behavioural determinants of work-related benefits claimants' training behaviours and to suggest ways to improve claimants' compliance with training referrals. Design/methodology/approach: Qualitative interviews were conducted with 20 Jobcentre Plus staff and training providers, and 60 claimants.…
Descriptors: Training, Qualitative Research, Interviews, Human Capital
Carey, Charlotte; Matlay, Harry – Education & Training, 2010
Purpose: The aim of this paper is to explore how creative disciplines education is taught, delivered, and assessed, and how this might inform the development of enterprise education UK. Design/methodology/approach: The paper makes use of empirical data from three main sources across creative disciplines: interviews with entrepreneurs; job adverts…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Entrepreneurship, Creativity, Industry
Tavares Vilas Boas Ribeiro, Artur; Mendes Borini, Felipe; Ary Plonski, Guilherme – Education & Training, 2023
Purpose: This article aims at the understanding of specific spaces where entrepreneurship education (EE) happens -- inside and outside the classroom. Design/methodology/approach: Building on frameworks such as formal versus non-formal entrepreneurial education and institutional versus non-institutional actors, this research applies structural…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Business Education, Educational Environment, Nonformal Education
Lim, David – Education & Training, 2010
Purpose: Many students do not benefit from mainstream education and are forced to leave it. Governments and non-government organisations concerned with the social injustice and problems that such rejection could cause offer these students second-chance education programmes. This paper aims to examine the effectiveness of such opportunities, using…
Descriptors: Evidence, Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Vocational Education
Pepper, Ian K.; McGrath, Ruth – Education & Training, 2010
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the benefits of pre-employment education and training and its impact on the students' choice of career paths. It focuses on a programme delivered in partnership between Teesside University and a North East Police Force, and provides a model for future pre-employment education and training.…
Descriptors: Evidence, Employment, Partnerships in Education, Success