The study tests the impact of an undergraduate business degree with significant Work Integrated Learning (WIL) components on student satisfaction, self-efficacy, and generic skills development compared to students undertaking a traditional business degree. The article adopts a longitudinal...

Financial planning is in a process of professionalization. As an industry, the growing demand for financial planning services has been fuelled by compulsory superannuation, a wealthier but time poor middle class, increasing life expectancy (Warschauer, 2002), an aging baby boomer population...

Higher education stakeholders have expressed growing concern about teaching and learning performance and outcomes in business education. The emerging gap between graduate attributes and what industry requires not only refers to the lack of employment readiness of students, but also their generic...

Work-integrated learning (WIL) is a risky business for universities. WIL is a strategic risk worthy of pursuing by universities in the prevailing higher education environment, which is characterized by competition, changes in funding arrangements and stakeholder demand for WIL. Nevertheless the...

Fair Work Australia is the Commonwealth Government’s proposed ‘one-stop shop’ for employment relations matters. An important feature of FWA is its unfair dismissal jurisdiction, which is supposedly designed to deliver a simpler, faster and less costly process by restricting legal...

Studies have found that the use of profesionals and industry representatives can enhance students' confidence and their self-belief (Subramaniam & Freudenberg, 2007). Self-efficacy is an important measure of an individual's capacity to cope with learning and performing, whether at university or...

In recent years concerns have been raised about a gap emerging between graduate attributes and what industry requires (Yap, 1997; Albrecht and Sack, 2000). This is often referred to as a lack of 'employment readiness' of students and the need to engage industry with students and the curriculum. Such...

An advantage of tertiary study is the learning of new theories and ideologies, which can give a new perspective on how one views the world and their place in it. However, a potential barrier to this growth can be students’ own perceptions of themselves and their capabilities to deal with...

The skills required by a student to excel both academically and in their chosen professional careers have been identified by many institutions, and can be referred to as ‘generic capabilities’. These generic capabilities can extend from interpersonal skills, problem solving, oral...