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Downs, Carolyn; Mughal, Farooq; Shah, Uzair; Ryder, Mike – Studies in Higher Education, 2024
Internships are widely recognized within higher education as a useful work-based learning (WBL) approach to enhance student employability. However, there remains a need to understand whether internships provide a developmental experience that includes higher-level (soft) skills such as self-responsibility, flexibility and innovation. Our study…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Internship Programs, Work Experience Programs, Education Work Relationship
Perusso, Andre; Wagenaar, Robert – Studies in Higher Education, 2022
Globalisation, technological changes and the industry-to-service economy transition has produced dramatic changes in the labour market, thus affecting higher education. It is no longer sufficient to provide students with disciplinary knowledge. Graduates are also expected to be adaptive, innovative and flexible. As these competencies are better…
Descriptors: Work Experience Programs, Internship Programs, Higher Education, Foreign Countries
Silva, Patrícia; Lopes, Betina; Costa, Marco; Melo, Ana I.; Dias, Gonçalo Paiva; Brito, Elisabeth; Seabra, Dina – Studies in Higher Education, 2018
Higher education institutions are increasingly concerned with the professional insertion of graduates in the labour market and with the design of institutional mechanisms to facilitate students' transition from higher education to work, particularly given the context of scarcity of financial resources and the rise of graduate unemployment. This…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Internship Programs, Program Effectiveness
Hodge, Paul; Wright, Sarah; Barraket, Jo; Scott, Marcelle; Melville, Rose; Richardson, Sarah – Studies in Higher Education, 2011
Ideas of "how we learn" in formal academic settings have changed markedly in recent decades. The primary position that universities once held on shaping what constitutes learning has come into question from a range of experience-led and situated learning models. Drawing on findings from a study conducted across three Australian universities, the…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Learning Experience
Klein, Markus; Weiss, Felix – Studies in Higher Education, 2011
Mandatory internships are implemented in higher education curricula in order to ease the labour market integration of graduates. This article evaluates the utility of mandatory internships in Germany by assessing the effect on graduates' transition from higher education to work. The authors examine whether these compulsory programmes provide extra…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Labor Market, College Graduates

Auburn, Timothy; And Others – Studies in Higher Education, 1993
A study investigated undergraduate psychology students' perceptions of an internship experience as it contributed to their transition to entry-level employment after graduation. It was found that the internship provided unique experiences, particularly concerning cooperation and communication with colleagues, but did not affect career choice or…
Descriptors: Career Choice, College Students, Education Work Relationship, Entry Workers