Undergraduate work placements: an analysis of the effects on career progression

By Ruth Brooks, Youngson, Paul L, Paul L. Youngson. 2016

129 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Education, Management of Technology and Innovation

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/efecc9dfb21ddb86a8accc36759be7d9704963ac

Citations in the corpus

• Rethinking graduate employability: the role of capital, individual attributes and context (2018, unknown): “This approach has been used routinely in disciplines such as medicine, nursing and engineering but more recently universities have come under increasing pressure to offer them across all university programmes (Brooks and Youngson 2014).”
• What actually works to enhance graduate employability? The relative value of curricular, co-curricular, and extra-curricular learning and paid work (2020, unknown): “Previously reported positive effects of internships on employment outcomes (Brooks and Youngson 2016) were evident more for extra-curricular than embedded formats.”
• (How) Do work placements work? Scrutinizing the quantitative evidence for a theory-driven future research agenda (2019, unknown): “…2000; pre- and post placement: Iqbal, 2007) while others indicated that placement students obtained higher grades than non-placement students (Brooks & Youngson, 2016; Gardner, Nixon, & Motschenbacher, 1992; Green, 2011; Santer, 2010; controlling for previous academic performance: Mansfield,…”