The 21st century has witnessed precipitous changes spanning from the way of life to the
technologies that emerged. We have entered a nascent paradigm shift (industry 4.0) where …

This paper addresses the limited empirical analysis of higher education students'
perceptions of contemporary labour market demands. It explores their perspectives on the …

This paper engages with debates in academic literatures over Industry 4.0 (i4. 0) and the
Future of Work (FoW), critiquing their development in practical isolation from each other …

Before the industrial revolution began, managing people was not an art and teamwork was
not explicitly understood or studied in engineering workplaces. According to Egel and …

Technologies are developing at a fast rate in which every new technology has an ample
range of applications. Digitalization has taken rapid strides over the last few years which …

Purpose It is widely reported that there is a competence deficit between graduating from
Australian higher education (HE) and becoming work ready and that the deficit is becoming …

Purpose This paper explores how education and training systems can support a digitally-
enabled workforce for the Australian manufacturing sector. Design/methodology/approach …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the approaches to education and training
adopted by manufacturing organisations to identify and develop a set of learning principles …

The problems facing society today are complex, multifaceted, and require crossing multiple
disciplinary boundaries. As such, these problems call for interdisciplinary collaboration …

This study examined the extent to which experiential learning and career guidance activities,
as strategies for equipping students with transferable skills, are used by Higher Education …