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Direct linkHelena Barachino; Anneke Timmermans; Viktor Andreas Venhorst; Jouke van Dijk – Education & Training, 2025
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore how graduate employability is conceptualized and operationalized in higher education through educational interventions. It provides a comprehensive review of how these interventions are implemented and the results they report as well as the levels of governance that motivate their implementation.…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Employment Potential, Intervention, Program Effectiveness
Peter Fieger; Annette Foley – Education & Training, 2024
Purpose: In the wake of a skills shortage in Australia and its impact on the economy, the need for students to complete their vocational education and training (VET) programmes and enter the workforce is critical. This study aims to identify to what degree student programme choice and perceived personal benefits as well as various confounders act…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Satisfaction, Vocational Education, Student Attitudes
Alp, Elif; Karadeniz, Oguz; Çaglar, Atalay; Islamoglu, Emel – Education & Training, 2023
Purpose: This study aids to examine the impact of extending the internship period on the transition from school to work of vocational school of higher education graduates and subsequent employment outcomes. Design/methodology/approach: Within the scope of the study, the results regarding the labour market of the vocational school students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Internship Programs, Vocational Education, Student Adjustment
Yuting Cui; Fanghui Huang; Zhiqun Zhao; Fan Gao – Education & Training, 2024
Purpose: Firstly, this study diagnosed professional competence amongst Chinese vocational students within a broad range of the manufacturing sectors; then, the authors examined how different types of P-E fit (job, organisation and vocation) and internship quality jointly shape the newly acquired professional competences of interns.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Graduates, Internship Programs
Govender, Cookie M.; Vaaland, Terje I. – Education & Training, 2022
Purpose: This paper aims to identify challenges in business school and business collaboration when implementing work-integrated learning (WIL) as a vehicle to enhance student work-life realities and possible employability opportunities. Design/methodology/approach: This paper adopts a five-step literature synthesis method. In-depth review and…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, College Graduates, Business Administration Education, Business Schools
Ebner, Katharina; Soucek, Roman; Selenko, Eva – Education & Training, 2021
Purpose: This study illuminates the assumption that internships facilitate labor market entry and answers the question of why internships have a positive effect on students' self-perceived employability. It is assumed that internships enable more positive employability perceptions by reducing career-entry worries -- the worries of not finding a…
Descriptors: Internship Programs, Program Effectiveness, Employment Potential, Anxiety
Doherty, Oran; Stephens, Simon – Education & Training, 2021
Purpose: This paper explores the implications for higher education of the rapid development in technology used by the manufacturing sector. Higher education programmes change or new courses are introduced in attempts to match labour market demands. However, the pace of change in the manufacturing industry challenges the authors to reconceive how…
Descriptors: Manufacturing Industry, Higher Education, Labor Market, Labor Needs
Okolie, Ugochukwu Chinonso; Nwajiuba, Chinyere Augusta; Binuomote, Michael Olayinka; Ehiobuche, Christian; Igu, Ntasiobi Chikezie Nwankwo; Ajoke, Ogungboyega Suliyat – Education & Training, 2020
Purpose: This study explores how career training with mentoring (CTM) programs work in Nigerian higher education (HE) institutions to foster students' career development and employability of graduates. It also explores how Nigerian HE curriculum can be adequately used to facilitate CTM as well as possible constraints to effective implementation of…
Descriptors: Career Education, Job Training, Mentors, Higher Education
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
Mohamed, Zainalabidin; Rezai, Golnaz; Shamsudin, Mad Nasir; Mahmud, Muhammad Mu'az – Education & Training, 2012
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the effectiveness of the Basic Student Entrepreneurial Programme (BSEP) among local university graduates who have undergone the training programme in entrepreneurship development. Design/methodology/approach: In total, 410 respondents who had participated in BSEP were interviewed with a structural…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, College Graduates
Ayarkwa, J.; Dansoh, Ayirebi; Adinyira, E.; Amoah, P. – Education & Training, 2011
Purpose: This paper aims to assess the perception of the Ghanaian construction industry of the performance of entry-level building technology graduates. Also, other non-technical skills or attributes expected from building technology graduates are to be compared with the actual proficiency of the graduates. Design/methodology/approach: The…
Descriptors: Consultants, Construction Industry, Graduates, Program Effectiveness
Dominguinhos, Pedro Miguel Calado; Carvalho, Luisa Margarida Cagica – Education & Training, 2009
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to analyse the effectiveness of entrepreneurship training programmes targeting post-graduate students. Design/methodology/approach: The approach takes the form of a case study of an entrepreneurship training programme, to assess its effectiveness. For this purpose the paper concentrates on the number of firms…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Graduate Students, Labor Market, Program Effectiveness
