OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Education and Training is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Does renaming improve public attitudes toward vocational education and training in higher education? Evidence from a survey experiment	96
Am I wasting my time? The influence of course unemployment in academic dropout	57
Understanding the motivational predictors of students’ persistence in work placement learning tasks	37
All good things come in threes – required skill sets in the graduate labour market in Germany	31
Reconceptualization and pedagogical strategies of public speaking competency for employability: an integrative review	31
Enhancing the effects of creativity training for business school students through art-based methods and blended learning	30
A disruptive model for delivering higher education programs within the context of entrepreneurship education	29
Mobile game-based learning in cultural heritage education: a bibliometric analysis	26
Virtual internship during the COVID-19 pandemic: exploring IT students satisfaction	26
Editorial: international enterprise and entrepreneurship education	25
Girls in the combined cadet force: a qualitative exploration of the impact of their experiences on their graduate employability skills	25
How to develop higher education curricula towards employability? A multi-stakeholder approach	24
“Still haven't found what I am looking for”: rural black students' perceived work readiness and assessment of labor market access	24
Validation of measurement scales for undergraduate students' self-perceived employability and university commitment in the United Arab Emirates	24
Education and training for industry 4.0: a case study of a manufacturing ecosystem	23
Individual entrepreneurial orientation: comparison of business and STEM students	22
The effect of role model teachers on students' entrepreneurial competencies and intentions	22
Narrative-based learning using mobile devices	22
Predicting students' soft skills: the role of psychological capital, psychological well-being and grade levels	22
Thresholds for dis/trust: exploring the impact of standards-based reforms on the process of being and becoming a VET teacher in England and Austria	22
Influence of role models on the entrepreneurial skills of science and technology undergraduates	19
The expectations of employability skills in the Fourth Industrial Revolution of the communication and media industry in Malaysia	19
Developing entrepreneurial competencies through deliberate practice	19
Mentoring students in higher education for reflection and development of employability competences: a pre-test post-test design	19
Utilizing mobile-learning and CAP(E) lesson framework in improving the productive skills of learners in a hybrid environment	19

Validation of a new multidimensional work readiness scale and linkages between its constructs	18
Who will teach that class? Perspectives on teacher shortages from English and Australian vocational education and training sectors	18
Differences in self-perceived employability between university and VET students: an analysis of emerging adults in Spain	17
Blended learning in entrepreneurship education: a systematic literature review	17
Variety of entrepreneurial skills measured in the entrepreneurship education literature	16
Assessing sustainable career development: the Future-Sustainable Career Scale (F-SCS) for young adults	16
Relationship between the informal social networks and entrepreneurial intentions of Chinese college students: the mediating role of entrepreneurial learning	15
Digital entrepreneurship intention and digital entrepreneurship behavior: the mediating role of managing learning and entrepreneurship education	15
Analysing student satisfaction with teaching strategies in vocational education	15
STEM education in England: questioning the “leaky pipeline” metaphor	15
Retention of newcomers and factors influencing turnover intentions and behaviour: a review of the literature	15
Building Heroes: building bridges to support the transition from military to civilian employment in the construction industry	14
The influence of participatory actions and collective agency on mechanical engineering students’ work placement learning environments	13
Perceived artificial intelligence literacy and employability of university students	13
TVET is under-resourced and held in low regard? Teachers’ perceptions of TVET in Bangladesh	13
Assessing graduates' transversal competences through an adapted MMI model: confidant interview vs stress interview	13
Continuing to choose the hospitality industry after graduation: the role of mentorship and internship satisfaction	13
The question of where: entrepreneurship education beyond curricular practices	13
Built environment professionals’ perspective on digital technology skills	12
The importance of work experience as opposed to education on the opinion of waste management professionals in Tehran	12
All the lonely people, where do they all come from: age moderating the mediation effect of loneliness among Portuguese students	12
The potential of virtual internships for management education: capturing student journey through experiential learning	12
Leading towards the students’ career development and career intentions through using multidimensional soft skills in the digital age	11
CompEntre 4.0: developing and validating a competency model for Industry 4.0 startups	11
Unleashing entrepreneurial potential: venture creation and self-directed experiential learning on social media amongst secondary school-aged business owners	11
Gendered personality traits and entrepreneurial intentions: insights from information technology education	11
Student perceptions of Living Lab research internships in the COVID-19 pandemic – a Dutch case study	10
Guest editorial: Technology infused education, preparing graduates for a digital employment market	10
The built environment craftmanship in higher education institutions: issues and prospects from stakeholders' perception	10
Governance structures and systemic challenges shaping the future of the technical and vocational education and training (TVET) workforce	10
Motivating university management students on studying research methods: influence of career applicability, and emotional and cognitive interests	10
Understanding undergraduates' work values as a tool to reduce organizational turnover	10
Enterprise education: pre-service further education teachers' impressions and aspirations	9
Students’ first professional placement: unravelling expectations and realities	9
Aligning institutional resource commitment with strategic pedagogical development to create online distance learning provision in UK HEIs	9
Interns’ experience with human resource practices and loyalty toward host internship sites	9
Stories of employability: improving interview narratives with image-supported past-behaviour storytelling training	9
Situating imposter syndrome in the experience of becoming and being an entrepreneurship educator	9
Smart working ecosystem as a driver of career productivity and educational sustainability among young university teachers: contextual insights from Pakistan	9
Does work-based social support matter? A perspective on Gen Z hospitality interns	9
The impact of entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurial intention: the moderating role of perceived governmental support	8
Perceptions of non-formal education by gender, level of education and field of study	8
Operationalization of graduate employability interventions in higher education – a systematic review	8
“We are just below the threshold of good jobs” – internalised exclusions of higher vocational graduates in China	8
Ensuring a smooth landing for starting VET teachers: integrating induction and HRM practices	8
Do personality traits matter for employability? The mediating role of grit and hope for success among university students	7
Perceptions of empowerment and motivation as outcomes of a continuing vocational education and training (CVET) programme for adults	7
NEET in Turkey: a typology including jobless youths, parental education and employment status as determinants	7
Horizontal mismatch in the labor market among university graduates in Chile	7
Flexible future learning opportunities for built environment professionals – a case study	7

Employer collaboration in developing graduate employability: a pilot study in Ireland	6
The paradoxical effect of new college graduates’ employability on career decision-making difficulties	6
Impact of quality assurance on TVET programs for the digital employment market of IR 4.0 in Pakistan: a quantitative investigation	6
Drivers in the generation of university students' job preferences: an empirical study of person–organisation fit in social enterprises	6
Exploring the impact of positing entrepreneurship in nature of science: initial science teachers' perspectives	6
Employability skills framework: a tripartite approach	6
Embedding sustainability in university work experience placements: a De Montfort University model	6
Does studying abroad matter? The case of entrepreneurial intention	5
Cultivating socially sustainable employability in Industry 5.0: exploring the impact of specific skills on the employability of management graduates	5
Publisher’s Note	5
Is there a gender difference in STEM students' perceived employability?	5
How do vocational students evaluate vocational education internships – an evaluation scale development in China	5
Guest editorial: Teacher recruitment and retention challenges in the further education and skills sector: lessons and solutions from international perspectives	5
Coaching to prepare students for their school-to-work transition: conceptualizing core coaching competences	5
Preparing students for the future workplace: how online teaching and learning during the COVID-19 pandemic hone required transferable skills	5
A qualitative analysis of student reflections on public health internships	5
Balancing individual and community dimensions: educators’ narratives on youth empowerment	5
Career planning and workforce preparation during economic downturn: perceptions of graduating business students	5
The relationship between job precariousness and career capital in working students: the explanatory mechanism of job crafting	4
Bridging the employability gap: enhancing soft skills via business gaming simulations	4
Education first? Triggering vs jeopardising entrepreneurial intentions	4
Digital competence in secondary education teachers during the COVID-19-derived pandemic: comparative analysis	4
Predicting graduate students’ entrepreneurial intentions through innovative teaching in entrepreneurship education: SEM-ANN approach	4
Reshaping vocational training: a study on the recognition of micro-credentials in job markets	4
“I will learn from my mistakes if we are close and supportive”: a moderated-mediating model of learning from mistakes	4
Innovation and sustainability from the perspective of entrepreneurial intention: a cross-cultural approach	4
A systematic review of measures of employability	4
The impact of cyber entrepreneurship education on Chinese college students’ self-efficacy and intention in cyber entrepreneurship	4
A study on stereotypes about vocational education and its groups in China	4
Skill gaps in accounting: contrasting stakeholder expectations with perceived skills	4
Policy, practice and skill development: a study of Kazakhstan’s higher education landscape	4
Breaking the stigma: the economic returns to trades education in Canada	4
Mechanism of internship in advancing employability skills: an exploratory study on business graduates in Yemen	4
The development and validation of the student's employability competences questionnaire (SECQ)	4
Entrepreneurial intentions among business students: the mediating role of attitude and the moderating role of university support	4
Collaborative online international learning between Spain and Mexico: a microlearning experience to enhance creativity in complexity	4
Training of youths for effective self-employment practices	4
Teacher perceptions about the reputation of technical and vocational education and training in Ghana	3
How attractive are internship advertisements to prospective applicants? A mixed-method examination through the lens of employer branding	3
Operationalisation and exploration of the Employability Capital Growth Model (ECGM): insights from university students in Vietnam	3
Examining perceptions of the tripartite relationship in higher degree apprenticeship programmes	3
Extracurricular internships and university students’ evaluation of higher learning: a cross-cultural adaptation perspective	3
Music major students' perception toward Chinese higher education curriculum in employability preparation	3
Building employability in PASS leaders through peer-assisted study sessions (PASS) programs	3
Boosting entrepreneurial intentions among potential TVET entrepreneurs of higher education institutes	3
University-supported job search methods and educational mismatch in bachelor's and master's graduates	3
Boosting entrepreneurial competences beyond business and management–related disciplines. The case of engineering programs	3
Construction of a competency evaluation index system for postgraduates of educational technology	3
The early bird catches the flywheel: pedagogical components of entrepreneurship education in American higher education institutions	3
Re-envisioning vocational education: critical discourse analysis of a government publicity campaign in Hong Kong	3
Business students' psychological capital and quality of university life: the moderating role of study crafting	3
The entrepreneurial mindset in entrepreneurship education: what can we learn from S-O-R models?	3
Design, implementation and academic perspectives on authentic assessment for applied business higher education in a top performing Asian economy	3
Evaluation of the comprehensive thematic teaching effectiveness and technique/technology in culinary vocational education	3
The impact of industry-oriented capstone courses on the employability of EECS students in technological universities	3
Does extending the internship period in vocational schools of higher education lead to better employment results?: the case of Turkey	3
Attitudes and intentions towards the adoption of mobile learning during COVID-19: building an exciting career through vocational education	3
Enhancing digital literacy in education: educational directions	3
Business students' perspectives on case method coaching for problem-based learning: impacts on student engagement and learning performance in higher education	3