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Direct linkDowns, 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
Dorit Alt; Lior Naamati-Schneider; Daniel J. N. Weishut – Studies in Higher Education, 2023
In recent years, researchers have highlighted the importance of students' set of soft skills. However, although deemed important, the integration of those skills into educational systems' policy remains ancillary in higher education. This is mainly due to the scant use of competency-based learning activities and the widely used instructional…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Formative Evaluation, Feedback (Response), Soft Skills
Cattani, Luca; Pedrini, Giulio – Studies in Higher Education, 2021
This paper assesses labour market outcomes associated with the acquisition of different graduate competences in the Italian labour markets particularly focusing on 'soft skills' developed during HE programs. By using a classification of graduate jobs that distinguishes between different horizontal skills, namley managerial and communication…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Graduates, Education Work Relationship, Soft Skills
Maria del Pilar Garcia-Chitiva; Juan C. Correa – Studies in Higher Education, 2024
Is it possible to measure how critical soft skills like leadership or teamwork are from the viewpoint of graduate studies offerings? This paper provides a conceptual and methodological framework that introduces the concept of a bipartite network as a practical way to estimate the importance of soft skills as socio-emotional abilities trained in…
Descriptors: Soft Skills, Graduate Study, Social Emotional Learning, Foreign Countries
Motahhari-Nejad, Hossein – Studies in Higher Education, 2021
This study aimed to validate the factor structure of professional competencies in engineering and test the measurement invariance of these competencies across gender. Through a cross-sectional survey, 552 senior undergraduate students (287 males) responded to a 24-item professional competencies scale. The professional competencies included five…
Descriptors: Minimum Competencies, Technical Occupations, Engineering Education, Undergraduate Students
Cheong, Kee Cheok; Leong, Yin Ching; Hill, Christopher – Studies in Higher Education, 2021
This paper examines the role of higher education and higher education providers, more specifically, regarding employability. The paper draws upon a three-year research project examining the key stakeholders in this process; from parents, to students, to teachers, to institutions, to employers. The paper offers critical insight and analysis into…
Descriptors: Stakeholders, Employment Potential, College Role, Educational Responsibility
