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Direct linkAbede Mack; Katelynn Carter-Rogers; Priscilla Bahaw; Ayanna Stephens – Discover Education, 2024
Appetite for entrepreneurship education (EE) among vocational students has surged dramatically, driven by persistent challenges of unemployment. As a result, vocational institutions are increasingly focused on how much entrepreneurship exposure students receive, particularly how frequently instructors impart core business knowledge and skills to…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Technical Education, Student Attitudes, Knowledge Level
Eve Klein; Jack Walton – Higher Education Research and Development, 2024
The strengthening employability paradigm within higher education has led to a situation where the practical value of liberal arts programmes is contested. While the potential for such programmes to develop valuable generic skills is recognised, critiques of liberal arts programmes centre around their loose structure and lack of clear alignment…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Job Skills, Liberal Arts
Yu Guo Wang; I Ta Wang – Education & Training, 2024
Purpose: With a focus on undergraduate music major students in China, the study sought to examine how higher music education institutions prepare professional knowledge, professional skills and soft skills in relevance to music students' employability. Design/methodology/approach: The quantitative survey engaged 359 music students from five music…
Descriptors: Musicians, Music Education, Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries
Patrick D. McDermott – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This qualitative research study addressed a notable gap in existing literature by examining the perceptions and relationship between experiential learning and college and career readiness within the homeschooling context. Purposeful sampling was used to recruit 13 homeschooled students from northwestern Florida. To gather data, indepth,…
Descriptors: Home Schooling, Experiential Learning, College Readiness, Career Readiness
Michal Balberg; Hen Friman; Heftsi Ragones; Ifaa Baner; Revital Shechter; Gila Kurtz – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2025
Contribution: This study demonstrates the effectiveness of a dedicated soft skills (SSs) course in an electrical engineering (EE) undergraduate program, showing improvements in students' appreciation and satisfaction of expressing most of these skills. Background: SSs, encompassing interpersonal and social competencies, are important for career…
Descriptors: Soft Skills, Engineering Education, Student Attitudes, Undergraduate Students
Pinkie Ntola; Elena Nevines; Lindelani Q. Qwabe; Myalowenkosi I. Sabela – Journal of Chemical Education, 2024
Universities tend to focus on the hard skills required within disciplines, with a general lack of focus on the teaching of soft skills, specifically in the hard sciences, while a graduate with good attributes ought to have both. There is an uncertainty over whose responsibility it is to teach soft skills between industry and universities, with the…
Descriptors: College Science, Soft Skills, Science Instruction, Chemistry
Raja Adzrin Raja Ahmad; Radiah Othman; Norfizah Othman; Henny Hazliza binti Mohd Tahir; Ahmad Marzuki; Ahmad Marzuki Amirruddin Othman – Accounting Education, 2025
This study focuses on an environmental management accounting (EMA) course and explores how a pedagogical project, incorporating dialogic environmental and sustainability elements, transforms students' perspectives and educational experiences. The findings support the shift towards a dialogic approach to enhance the educational experiences of…
Descriptors: Accounting, Business Education, Energy Management, Teaching Methods
Download full textKamal Moundy; Nadia Chafiq; Mohammed Talbi – Journal of Educators Online, 2025
For students in the digital era, the development of digital soft skills is necessary for them to face the new situations of digital transformation and evolution. Thus, it is important to develop and hybridize students' skills through educational technologies and active pedagogical methods, so they can improve their academic performance. The aim of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Digital Literacy, Electronic Books
Karras, Konstantinos – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2022
As a nation strives to meet the challenges posed by globalization, which is an issue of the information economy, its strength relies heavily on its citizens' intellectual prowess and critical thinking skills. Thus, institutions of teacher education play a key role in producing teachers who will be able to meet the needs of the time, with empathy,…
Descriptors: Soft Skills, Skill Development, Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Teachers
De Dijn, Melina; Jacobs, Catho; Zenner, Eline; Ihalainen, Laura; Palander-Collin, Minna; Peterson, Elizabeth; Arens, Sanne; De Baar, Mirjam; Touwen, Jeroen; Heyvaert, Liesbet – Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 2023
OECD reports a mismatch between field of study and job content for Humanities students, while at the same time signalling labour market shortages for skills that seem clearly linked with the Humanities, e.g. delivering information. In order to investigate which skills Humanities students associate with their university studies, we conducted a…
Descriptors: Job Skills, Employment Potential, Student Attitudes, Humanities
Muammar, Omar – Gifted Education International, 2022
Leadership skills are a prerequisite in the 21st-century workplace in all fields. However, graduates often leave universities with a wealth of knowledge but less mastery and confidence in leadership skills. The purpose of the current study was to estimate the impact of a 20-hour leadership training program (LTP), on learning. A quasi-experimental…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Leadership, Leadership Training, College Students
Riu, David; Casabayo, Monica; Sayeras, Josep M.; Rovira, Xari; Agell, Nuria – Educational Review, 2022
Curricula are an essential ingredient of academic activity in higher education institutions and so it is necessary to develop tools that help improve these curricula. The need to increase student employability has recently been highlighted as an objective for universities. This paper introduces a methodology to help assess curricula in the…
Descriptors: Curriculum Evaluation, Career Readiness, College Students, Employment Potential
Tuvana Rua; Zeynep G. Aytug – Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education, 2024
This study draws from feedback intervention theory and professional communications theory to present a versatile, experiential class project to develop and improve students' virtual communications and presentation skills by combining hard and soft-skill development, multisource feedback, and self-reflection. After successfully using this class…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Student Attitudes, Program Effectiveness, Virtual Classrooms
Ocyna Rudmann; Anatolia Batruch; Emilio Paolo Visintin; Nicolas Sommet; Pascal Bressoux; Céline Darnon; Marinette Bouet; Marco Bressan; Genavee Brown; Carlos Cepeda; Anthony Cherbonnier; Marie Demolliens; Anne-Laure De Place; Olivier Desrichard; Théo Ducros; Luc Goron; Brivael Hemon; Pascal Huguet; Eric Jamet; Ruben Martinez; Vincent Mazenod; Nathalie Mella; Estelle Michinov; Nicolas Michinov; Nana Ofosu; Pascal Pansu; Laurine Peter; Benoit Petitcollot; Celine Poletti; Isabelle Régner; Mathilde Riant; Anais Robert; Camille Sanrey; Arnaud Stanczak; Farouk Toumani; Simon Vilmin; Eva Vives; Fabrizio Butera – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2024
Considering the evolving and unpredictable job market, adaptability is an important skill for young adults. Such adaptability implies that schools need to teach key social competences, like communication, collaboration, or problem-solving. In this area, a gender gap has consistently been found, showing that boys display social competences less…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Gender Differences, Interpersonal Competence, Longitudinal Studies
Maldonado-Ruiz, Gonzalo; Soto Gómez, Encarnación – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2023
The following paper presents the results of a case study on the educational potentiality of pedagogical documentation as a way to construct the research disposition of preschool teachers in initial education. After an introductory reflection on the relevance of provoking the reconstruction of practical knowledge, pedagogical documentation is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Research, Documentation, Instruction
