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What is Graduate Skills Gap

Transforming Curriculum Through Teacher-Learner Partnerships
This graduate skills gap refers to the difference between the competencies graduates learn as part of their respective academic program and the skills employers require from graduates in the workplace.
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Integrating Service Learning Into Higher Education Curriculum: Developing Business Undergraduates' Competencies
Vinitha Guptan (Saito University College, Malaysia), Ratneswary Rasiah (Taylor's University, Malaysia), and Jason James Turner (Asia Pacific University of Technology and Innovation, Malaysia)
Copyright: © 2021 |Pages: 21
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-6445-5.ch007
Abstract
This study aims to assess the effectiveness of integrating service learning into the business curriculum of a higher education provider to enhance learners' competencies and reflective learning. Founded on the educational theories of constructivism and social learning, this research consolidates and takes research forward in the understanding of how transforming the business curriculum by integrating service learning through teacher-learner partnerships enhances a students' ability for reflective learning. Using a self-administered questionnaire-based survey with 256 respondents, the data were analysed using variance based PLS-SEM to reveal that service learning had a significant positive influence on reflective learning and on student competency development. The results indicate the positive impact that team-based service learning through teacher-learner partnerships had on the learners' experience. These findings offer some interesting insight for educators, researchers, and policy makers as a means to enhance the learning experience of students in tertiary education in Malaysia.
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