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Direct linkGeraldine O'Neill; Angela Short – Irish Educational Studies, 2025
The discourse on preparing job-ready graduates has led to calls for more authentic methods of teaching and learning that allow higher education students to enhance their employability. The literature identifies authentic approaches to teaching as those that situate learning in contexts that correspond to the 'real world'. However, little is known…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Attitudes, Learner Engagement, College Curriculum
Download full textHardin-Ramanan, Sarita; Gopee, Shafiiq; Rowtho, Vikash; Charoux, Odylle – Journal of Teaching and Learning for Graduate Employability, 2020
Characterised by strong human capital dependency, Small Island Development States (SIDS) such as Mauritius depend largely on work-ready graduates to boost their economy. Yet, Graduate Work Readiness (GWR) and graduate unemployment feature prominently on the Mauritian government agenda. This paper investigates the previously unexplored issue of GWR…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Graduates, Career Readiness, Employment Potential
Smith, Calvin; Worsfold, Kate – Studies in Higher Education, 2015
This paper describes the impacts of work-integrated learning (WIL) curriculum components on general employability skills--professional work-readiness, self-efficacy and team skills. Regression analyses emphasise the importance of the "authenticity" of WIL placements for the development of these generic outcomes. Other curricula factors…
Descriptors: Work Experience Programs, Employment Potential, Job Skills, Career Readiness
Smith, Calvin; Worsfold, Kate – Studies in Higher Education, 2014
With the increasing adoption of work-integrated learning (WIL) as a feature of curricula, the idea of student satisfaction takes on a new dimension--students' experiences on placement are not routinely under the control of university academic staff, yet universities will ultimately be held responsible for the quality of students' placement…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Satisfaction, Student Attitudes
Giannakopoulos, Georgios; Kyriaki-Manessi, Daphne; Zervos, Spiros – Education for Information, 2012
The belief that information organizations, such as libraries, archives and museums have common goals and manage the same resource, i.e. information, leads to the proposition presented here, that they should be regarded as an integrated unit. Furthermore, the development of new technologies offers a common platform via which all information…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Science Education, Libraries, Archives
Stasiunaitiene, Egle; Norkute, Odeta – Quality of Higher Education, 2011
In this article, relevance of practice during university studies is highlighted, as well as the main stages of its organisation, qualitative parameters, as well as criteria and indicators that validate them are defined. Discussion on the idea that taking into consideration qualitative parameters of organising practice as a component of studies…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Education Work Relationship, Theory Practice Relationship
