Political and economic discourses position employability as a responsibility of higher education, which utilise mechanisms such as supervised work experience (SWE) to embed employability into the undergraduate curriculum. However, sparse investigation of students' contextualised experiences of...

An extensive body of literature in higher education (for example, Marton and Saljo, 1984; Prosser and Trigwell, 1999) explores learning from the perspectives of students. Saljo (1979) formed the basis of Sharma's (1997) first study exploring accountancy students' conceptions of learning. Using an...