Connecting enterprise and graduate employability: Challenges to the higher education culture and curriculum?

Education and Training

Volumn 49, Issue 8-9, 2007, Pages 605-619

  Rae, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Careers; Employment; Entrepreneurialism; Graduates; National curriculum; United Kingdom

Indexed keywords

EID: 36249023627     PISSN: 00400912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00400910710834049     Document Type: Article

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