...Caroline J. Burns; Samuel M. Natale Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss how liberal higher education can strengthen vocational higher education. Design/methodology/approach The paper uses Shay's (2013) framework of curriculum differentiation to articulate how the strengths...

... (EDOs), while students' engagement with the other four is only to a fair extent. EDOs are found to jointly influence students' employability. The curriculum has the highest influence, followed by personal development planning, career development learning and work experience. Real-world activities...

... Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Teaching Curriculum Learning Social entrepreneurship Business education Critical awareness According to the South African secondary school curriculum, the focus of business education within the Further Education and Training (FET...

... and Davison, 2008) and students (e.g. CBI/NUS, 2011). These stakeholders exert pressure as a result of a number of factors including massification, graduate labour market congestion and government policies related to the expansion of HE. Employers Employability Curriculum Enterprise Careers...

...Professor Harry Matlay; Athanasios Mandilas; Dimitrios Kourtidis; Yiannis Petasakis Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine whether the accounting curriculum fits business demand. More specifically, it determines competencies that Greek companies demand from higher education[1...

... Limited 2014 Ghana Job creation Curriculum Entrepreneur Incubator Tertiary Unemploment Tourism graduates One of the major problems facing developing countries especially those in Africa including Ghana, is youth unemployment (Bwisa, 2004). Every year, thousands of young men and women...

... of constructive alignment, sequential skill development, consistency of delivery and ensuring student “buy-in” to education practitioners in their efforts to meet industry expectations of graduates who can WEWO. Curriculum Business Employability Skill Team-work Undergraduate The ability to working...

... of the educators chose cognitive attributes as most important to students’ success. The industry’s general agreement was that academicians would rate different characteristics as important than did the industry professionals. © MCB UP Limited 2002 Apparel Design Curriculum Skills Higher education...

...Rebecca A. Thacker In an effort to revise an undergraduate human resource management (HRM) curriculum and improve the relevance of the students’ learning, a collaborative effort between human resource management practitioners and HRM faculty was launched. The result was the design of a project...

... of a developing knowledge economy. Describes the management structure and processes adopted by the college to deliver a curriculum educating students in knowledge management for a knowledge economy. This reflects a policy initiative of the Malaysian government which has embraced a knowledge economy in which soft...

... will be discussed in relation to the teacher training curriculum. Moreover, the current ideology advocated by the Teacher Training Agency will be questioned in the light of the need for change. Clearly a lifelong learning culture will need to permeate all aspects of, and become an integral element within, ITT...

... learning) perspectives. Describes the structure of commissioned projects and argues that this is a necessary but not sufficient condition for their success. Argues that the key to their successful utilisation is the establishment of effective foundations. Identifies these as a strategy for curriculum...

...Pamela E. Bishop Education and industry links are well established in schools and the benefits of an industrial dimension within the curriculum are widely acknowledged. However, high quality and sustainable work which also provides continuity and progression of experience for pupils as they move...

...Peter Nixon Examines reasons for Britain’s economic decline and sets the context for a partnership between education and industry. Examines the benefits of a work‐invested curriculum with particular reference to the primary sector. Seeks reasons for and the consequences of the haphazard approaches...

... and initiatives took on a distinctly“tartan” flavour in their Scottish manifestations. Selects the questions of “domestication” and“progression” within the EIL curriculum for further development. © Company 1995 1 Government sponsored schemes:first TVEI – although EIL is not its only concern...

... be reconceived as a kind of learning not of institution, and that it should be lifelong, learner‐centred, achievement‐led, economically proactive,explicit and diverse. Also defines a set of three frameworks – for learner support, curriculum and credit – around which it might be built. Also reports on the results...

... be incorporated into the school curriculum. Discusses the results of the survey together with their implications. Recognizes that, while this research was generated at a regional level, the findings have more far‐reaching implications and are of benefit to a wider audience. © MCB UP Limited 1993 EDUCATION...

... from the perspective of management (of the college), client (students, HE, schools, employers) and curriculum. Offers general guidelines on an evaluation strategy, schedule and methodology. © MCB UP Limited 1993 Clients Curriculum Evaluation General National Vocational Qualifications...

...Robert Collins; Matt Hector‐Taylor; Marilyn Wedgwood The EHE programme at Sheffield University focuses primarily on the process of curriculum change so as to become embedded within the institution. In the first year of the programme, these changes to curricula are generally experimental, testing...

...Mary C. Heycock The conflict which can arise when creating or reinforcing curriculum change in an academic institution is explored, with reference to the start of the Enterprise in Higher Education Initiative at Leeds Polytechnic. © MCB UP Limited 1991 Organizational change Higher...