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Louise Dunn; Sarah Mclean – International Journal of Work-Integrated Learning, 2025
Innovation to support work-integrated learning (WIL) delivery in Australian higher education and other countries is becoming increasingly important due to the complexities associated with integrating work and learning in this context. Exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, complexities include the changing nature of work and challenges related to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Environmental Education, Health Education
Flevy Lasrado; Bonnie Dean; Micheal Eady – International Journal of Work-Integrated Learning, 2024
Work-integrated learning (WIL) plays a crucial role in introducing students to work environments to enhance employability skills and career readiness. These opportunities are made possible through university-workplace partnerships. Despite the numerous benefits associated with such partnerships, effective initiation and management of partnerships…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Work Experience Programs, Career Readiness, Employment Potential
Dorcas Rosaley Prakaschandra; Rhoda Meyer – International Journal of Work-Integrated Learning, 2025
The work-integrated learning (WIL) environment can precipitate additional mental and psychological stress, with possible deleterious effects for health science students and patients. The dearth of information for clinical technology students who are also affected by the demands of academic learning tasks and the clinical environment, warrants an…
Descriptors: Work Experience Programs, Experiential Learning, Clinical Experience, Health Sciences
Emily Garant-Jones; Michelle J. Eady; Bonnie Amelia Dean – Higher Education Research and Development, 2024
Work-integrated learning (WIL) is relied upon to meet important shared employability-related goals of institutions of higher education, students and employers. However, research indicates that not all students have access to and experience WIL activities. A clearer understanding of how WIL may be designed for inclusion of a diverse student…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Student Diversity, Inclusion, Equal Education
Schreck, Nicholas K. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This paper aims to understand the marketing workplace soft skills gap and address the possibility of closing that gap through the implementation of a student-run marketing agency at institutions of higher learning. A 2016 report from Payscale.com suggests that employers feel like new graduates lack the ability to think critically, to work in…
Descriptors: Marketing, Job Skills, Higher Education, Education Work Relationship
Lee Fergusson – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2024
In work-based learning (WBL), autodidactic, informal, nonformal, and formal approaches to learning are viewed not as dichotomous, distinct, or divergent spheres along a continuum but as intersected and clustered spheres. In WBL, prior learning, professional development, advanced standing, and other forms of learning are therefore formally…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Work Experience Programs, Graduate Students, Education Work Relationship
Madhumita Banerjee; Kaila Bingen – Experiential Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, 2024
This study presents a course model to demonstrate how students' current work experiences can be utilized as a viable alternative to internships. While internships have been shown to enhance a student's college experience, underserved and underrepresented students are often unable to pursue this high impact practice due to financial,…
Descriptors: College Students, Internship Programs, Experiential Learning, Work Experience Programs
Kavita Rao; Emily Garant-Jones; Bonnie Amelia Dean; Michelle J. Eady – International Journal of Work-Integrated Learning, 2024
Work-integrated learning (WIL) is crucial for the development of employability skills and has an influence on employment outcomes. Given the significance of WIL pedagogies for graduate preparedness and transitions into work, concerns have been raised on the barriers to access and participation in WIL for some cohorts of learners. Equity and…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Inclusion, Equal Education, Work Experience Programs
Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE), 2022
Student career development is an important element of a high-quality career and technical education (CTE) program. Students enrolled in programs with high-quality career development activities are able to identify a personalized career plan related to their strengths, interests and abilities, and are informed about post high school education and…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, School Business Relationship, Career Development, Vocational Education
Jackson, Denise; Dean, Bonnie Amelia – Higher Education Research and Development, 2023
Work-integrated learning (WIL) is widely recognised as significantly contributing to enhancing graduate employability. Empirical evaluation of its impact and value is often confined to work-based WIL (internships/placements/practicums), known to pose challenges with scalability and equitable access. Through the lens of experiential learning, this…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Work Experience Programs, Employment Potential, Internship Programs
Shute, Shannon E. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The purpose of this case study was to describe the processes used by a high school vocational program to provide vocational training and preparation for postsecondary employment to students with disabilities. This research addresses the deficient circulation of qualitative research regarding vocational training practices used by functioning…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Students with Disabilities, High School Students, Education Work Relationship
Rukiya Curvey Johnson; Natalia Gallegos; Heather Hampton; Darius Caffey; Kimberly Bailey; Ellen Vigil; Tanea Culbreath-Byrd; Denise Jenkins; Angela Freeman – Journal of STEM Outreach, 2023
Students of color, first-generation, and residents of communities experiencing disinvestment--who aspire to obtain meaningful postsecondary degrees, career success, financial security, and social mobility--face tremendous challenges in navigating science, technology, engineering, math, and health science (STEM-H) education and career sectors. The…
Descriptors: Students, STEM Education, STEM Careers, Health Sciences
Jones, Becky Quew; Brook, Cheryl – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2019
This account of practice offers an example of the use of action learning within the undergraduate Degree Apprenticeship Curriculum of a UK university, specifically the Chartered Manager Degree Apprenticeship. This programme is aimed at an age-diverse group who are supported by their employers through the levy to improve their knowledge, skills and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Experiential Learning, Undergraduate Students, Apprenticeships
Tiessen, Rebecca; Grantham, Kate; Cameron, John – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2018
In this paper, we explore the relationship between experiential learning and career outcomes for international development studies (IDS) graduates from the perspective of program alumni, by presenting the results of a national survey completed by 1,901 IDS alumni across Canada. Employing study data, we answer the following research questions: (1)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Experiential Learning, Employment Patterns, Alumni
New England Board of Higher Education, 2018
Surveys of New England employers, college academic officers, and graduates find that many consider today's college graduates inadequately prepared for the world of work. In 2017, the New England Board of Higher Education convened the Commission on Higher Education & Employability, under the leadership of Rhode Island Governor Gina M. Raimondo.…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Employment Potential, College Graduates, Career Readiness