Embedding employability and enterprise skills in sport degrees through a focused work - based project; a student and employer viewpoint
With graduate employability being high on many universities’ agendas, it becomes vital that a curriculum delivers not only subject knowledge but also the opportunity for students to develop and enhance industry-specific skills. This paper is concerned with how a work-based project can support skill...
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| description | With graduate employability being high on many universities’ agendas, it becomes vital that a curriculum delivers not only subject knowledge but also the opportunity for students to develop and enhance industry-specific skills. This paper is concerned with how a work-based project can support skill development and considers the views of students and employers as to the application of these skills in the context of a sports undergraduate programme in a UK university. Using a mixed-method approach to data collection, 30 students and 5 project hosts took part in the study. The research findings reported a mismatch between the students’ and hosts’ viewpoints on whether skills were developed as a result of the project. Students appeared to have a lack of understanding how to apply the skills in the context of a sports organisation and were viewed by the employers as having an inflated opinion of their ability. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d8b2f34f45294a958e59978753dde4802023-09-02T20:01:21ZengTaylor & Francis GroupCogent Education2331-186X2017-01-014110.1080/2331186X.2017.13870851387085Embedding employability and enterprise skills in sport degrees through a focused work - based project; a student and employer viewpointTrack Dinning0Liverpool John Moores UniversityWith graduate employability being high on many universities’ agendas, it becomes vital that a curriculum delivers not only subject knowledge but also the opportunity for students to develop and enhance industry-specific skills. This paper is concerned with how a work-based project can support skill development and considers the views of students and employers as to the application of these skills in the context of a sports undergraduate programme in a UK university. Using a mixed-method approach to data collection, 30 students and 5 project hosts took part in the study. The research findings reported a mismatch between the students’ and hosts’ viewpoints on whether skills were developed as a result of the project. Students appeared to have a lack of understanding how to apply the skills in the context of a sports organisation and were viewed by the employers as having an inflated opinion of their ability.http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/2331186X.2017.1387085project-based learningskill developmentexemplarsemployability skillsentrepreneurshipenterprise skills |
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| title | Embedding employability and enterprise skills in sport degrees through a focused work - based project; a student and employer viewpoint |
| title_full | Embedding employability and enterprise skills in sport degrees through a focused work - based project; a student and employer viewpoint |
| title_fullStr | Embedding employability and enterprise skills in sport degrees through a focused work - based project; a student and employer viewpoint |
| title_full_unstemmed | Embedding employability and enterprise skills in sport degrees through a focused work - based project; a student and employer viewpoint |
| title_short | Embedding employability and enterprise skills in sport degrees through a focused work - based project; a student and employer viewpoint |
| title_sort | embedding employability and enterprise skills in sport degrees through a focused work based project a student and employer viewpoint |
| topic | project-based learning skill development exemplars employability skills entrepreneurship enterprise skills |
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