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Esther Asiedu; Ebenezer Malcalm; Afia Nyarko Boakye; Cornelius Kwarkoh Kwarkoh Amoah – Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning, 2024
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to examine the moderating effect of the reflective practice of business students on how it helps to develop their employability skills through various university strategies. Design/methodology/approach: The study employed a simple random sample to select undergraduate level 400 students from the Universities…
Descriptors: Employment Potential, Undergraduate Students, Skill Development, Business Education
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Paul Joseph-Richard; Kieran M. Conroy – Education & Training, 2024
Purpose: Self-initiated international placements by students have been largely ignored in the literature on outward mobility in higher education. The support given to self-initiated international placement students, if any, has received even less attention. This study aims to address this lacuna. Design/methodology/approach: Drawing on insights…
Descriptors: Career Guidance, Foreign Students, Student Placement, Student Mobility
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Owusu-Kwarteng, Louise – Gender and Education, 2021
Adopting an auto/biographical approach, I discuss the impact my grandmother, Nana Elizabeth (Lizbet) Beyie had on the academic and career outcomes of myself and other female descendants. The paper begins with an exploration of Lizbet's biography and how she overcame struggles in terms of ensuring my mother's education in an era and context where…
Descriptors: Grandparents, Parent Influence, African Americans, Females
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Ayentimi, Desmond Tutu; Hinson, Robert Ebo; Burgess, John – Education & Training, 2021
Purpose: This paper, grounded on social capital and social networking theory, examines how postgraduate students in Ghana cultivate and utilise social resources towards career development. Design/methodology/approach: Following a qualitative study design, the authors recruited and conducted interviews with postgraduate student-workers undertaking…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Business Administration Education, International Trade, Social Capital
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Ernest, Kissi; Matthew, Somiah K.; Samuel, Ansah K. – Higher Education Studies, 2015
This paper sought to discuss entrepreneurial learning competencies by determining the outcome of entrepreneurial learning on the views of built environment students in the university setting. In this study, three relevant competencies were identified for entrepreneurial learning through literature, namely: entrepreneurial attitude, entrepreneurial…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Questionnaires, Indexes, Graduate Students
Mainu, Eric – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This quantitative study explored the perceptions of private university education compared to public university education by hiring professionals in Ghana using four dimensions: quality of degree and diploma programs, credibility of degree and diploma programs, characteristics of graduating student applicants, and skills of graduating student…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Private Colleges, Higher Education, Statistical Analysis