...Toyin Ajibade Adisa; Mashood Baderin; Gbolahan Gbadamosi; Chima Mordi Purpose The UK is a popular educational hub for international students from different parts of the world. These students often face different transitional challenges, which have a significant impact on the success or failure...

...Paul Jones; David Pickernell; Rebecca Fisher; Celia Netana Purpose The purpose of this paper is to evaluate career impact of entrepreneurship education (EE) considering evidence drawn from a quantitative study of alumni within two UK higher education institutions (HEIs) from a retrospective...

...Professor Harry Matlay; Sarah Preedy; Paul Jones Purpose – The employment market means students need to be equipped with wide-ranging enterprising skills and experience. With small- and medium-sized enterprises crucial to the health of the UK economy providing graduates with the skills to start...

...-accredited property courses in the UK. Descriptive analysis was used to analyse the questionnaire data. Fisher’s exact test was used to identify the statistical significance between academics’ and students’ views on the development of students’ commercial awareness as part of the RICS-accredited property...

... methodologies that limit the generalisability of the findings. This paper addresses this gap by drawing on data from a nationally representative study and considers the potential variation between jobs. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 UK Work experience Employability Part-time work...

... Labour's vocational education and training policies. It will be of interest to lecturers, tutors, instructors and students working in post-compulsory education and training, as well as to industrialists. Vocational training National vocational qualifications Unemployment UK Books...

... to feel fed up and wonder why he’d taken on the job description suggesting change. © MCB UP Limited 1996 Graduates Small‐ to medium‐sized enterprises UK Graduates face a crucial challenge in attempting to transfer new ideas into British small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Very...

...Jacqui Gush Aims to identify the need for graduate skills in the UK retail sector, and to assess the role that higher education currently plays and can potentially play in meeting these. Uses semi‐structured interviews with managers and graduates of six of the major companies, which demonstrate...