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  1. Exploring the impact of family financial support withdrawal on graduates’ school-to-work transition

    Article • Career Development International, December 2025, Emerald

    Ugochukwu Chinonso Okolie

  2. Exploring the role of university entrepreneurial ecosystem in shaping conditional student entrepreneurship

    Article • Industry and Higher Education, October 2025, SAGE Publications

    Ugochukwu Chinonso Okolie

  3. An Exploratory Factor Analysis Approach on Challenging Factors for Government Cloud Service Adoption Intention

    Article • Future Internet, July 2025, MDPI AG

    Ugochukwu Chinonso Okolie

  4. Basic Psychological Needs and Student Engagement in Work Placement Learning Tasks: A Moderated Mediation Model

    Article • SAGE Open, April 2025, SAGE Publications

    Ugochukwu Chinonso Okolie

  5. Understanding the motivational predictors of students’ persistence in work placement learning tasks

    Article • Education + Training, December 2024, Emerald

    Ugochukwu Chinonso Okolie

  6. A Longitudinal Study of Conditional Student Entrepreneurship in an Emerging Economy

    Article • Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, May 2024, SAGE Publications

    Ugochukwu Chinonso Okolie

  7. The Effect of Openness to Experience on Students’ Readiness for School-To-Work Transition

    Article • Journal of Career Assessment, March 2024, SAGE Publications

    Ugochukwu Chinonso Okolie

  8. Correction: Career-related teacher support and decision to choose teaching as a career: a three-wave study of Nigerian and Zambian university students

    Article • International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, August 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Ugochukwu Chinonso Okolie

  9. Career-related teacher support and decision to choose teaching as a career: a three-wave study of Nigerian and Zambian university students

    Article • International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, July 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Ugochukwu Chinonso Okolie

  10. Students' satisfaction with their academic majors and study commitment: The mediating role of academic psychological capital

    Article • Psychology in the Schools, March 2023, Wiley

    Ugochukwu Chinonso Okolie

  11. Work placement learning and students' readiness for school-to-work transition: Do perceived employability and faculty supervisor support matter?

    Article • Journal of Vocational Behavior, December 2022, Elsevier

    Ugochukwu Chinonso Okolie

  12. Women Entrepreneurship and Poverty Alleviation

    Article • November 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Ugochukwu Chinonso Okolie

  13. Special issue: Work placement learning – exploring self-employment and paid employment behaviour in higher education

    Article • Industry and Higher Education, October 2022, SAGE Publications

    Ugochukwu Chinonso Okolie

  14. How do work placement learning instructional methods enhance students’ learning experiences?

    Article • Industry and Higher Education, September 2022, SAGE Publications

    Ugochukwu Chinonso Okolie

  15. A Multi-Group Study of Psychological Capital and Job Search Behaviours Among University Graduates With and Without Work Placement Learning Experience

    Article • Journal of Career Assessment, August 2022, SAGE Publications

    Ugochukwu Chinonso Okolie

  16. Understanding Contextual and Personality-Related Factors Predicting Student Career Certainty in Work Placement Learning

    Article • Journal of Career Assessment, April 2022, SAGE Publications

    Ugochukwu Chinonso Okolie

  17. Work Placement Supervisor Support and Students’ Proactive Career Behaviors: The Moderating Role of Proactivity

    Article • Journal of Career Development, March 2022, SAGE Publications

    Ugochukwu Chinonso Okolie

  18. Applying social cognitive theory to placement learning in business firms and students’ entrepreneurial intentions

    Article • The International Journal of Management Education, March 2022, Elsevier

    Ugochukwu Chinonso Okolie

  19. Exploring the link between student placement learning in business organizations and self-employment preparatory behaviours

    Article • Industry and Higher Education, November 2021, SAGE Publications

    Ugochukwu Chinonso Okolie

  20. A closer look at how work placement learning influences student engagement in practical skills acquisition

    Article • Higher Education Research & Development, November 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Ugochukwu Chinonso Okolie

  21. Overcoming obstacles to collaborative learning practices: a study of student learning in higher education-based vocational education and training

    Article • International Journal of Training Research, August 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Ugochukwu Chinonso Okolie

  22. Entrepreneurial self-confidence, perceived desirability and feasibility of hospitality business and entrepreneurial intentions of hospitality management technology students

    Article • The International Journal of Management Education, July 2021, Elsevier

    Ugochukwu Chinonso Okolie

  23. Collaborative learning and student engagement in practical skills acquisition

    Article • Innovations in Education and Teaching International, May 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Ugochukwu Chinonso Okolie

  24. Is there a link between industry involvement in higher education learning and student job creation intention?

    Article • Industry and Higher Education, April 2021, SAGE Publications

    Ugochukwu Chinonso Okolie

  25. Enhancing students’ critical thinking skills through engagement with innovative pedagogical practices in Global South

    Article • Higher Education Research & Development, March 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Ugochukwu Chinonso Okolie

  26. A critical perspective on TVET teachers’ pedagogical practices: insights into the guiding pedagogical principles in practice

    Article • Journal of Vocational Education and Training, March 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Ugochukwu Chinonso Okolie

  27. Entrepreneurial competencies of undergraduate students: The case of universities in Nigeria

    Article • The International Journal of Management Education, March 2021, Elsevier

    Ugochukwu Chinonso Okolie

  28. Perceived supervisor support and learner’s career curiosity: the mediating effect of sense of belonging, engagement and self-efficacy

    Article • Higher Education Skills and Work-based Learning, January 2021, Emerald

    Ugochukwu Chinonso Okolie

  29. Women Entrepreneurship and Poverty Alleviation: Understanding the Economic and Socio-cultural Context of the Igbo Women’s Basket Weaving Enterprise in Nigeria

    Article • Journal of African Business, January 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Ugochukwu Chinonso Okolie

  30. How TVET teachers foster employability skills: insights from developing countries

    Article • International Journal of Training Research, September 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Ugochukwu Chinonso Okolie

  31. How careers advice and guidance can facilitate career development in technical, vocational education, and training graduates: The case in Nigeria

    Article • Australian Journal of Career Development, June 2020, SAGE Publications

    Ugochukwu Chinonso Okolie

  32. A critical perspective on industry involvement in higher education learning: Enhancing graduates’ knowledge and skills for job creation in Nigeria

    Article • Industry and Higher Education, April 2020, SAGE Publications

    Ugochukwu Chinonso Okolie

  33. Career training with mentoring programs in higher education

    Article • Education + Training, March 2020, Emerald

    Ugochukwu Chinonso Okolie

  34. Does PhD qualification improve pedagogical competence? A study on teaching and training in higher education

    Article • Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, March 2020, Emerald

    Ugochukwu Chinonso Okolie

  35. Improving graduate outcomes

    Article • Higher Education Skills and Work-based Learning, February 2020, Emerald

    Ugochukwu Chinonso Okolie

  36. Relevance of Entrepreneurship in TVET

    Article • January 2020, IGI Global

    Ugochukwu Chinonso Okolie

  37. An assessment of the trainability of beggars and the destitute in Abakaliki Nigeria: implication for policy on their health, vocational rehabilitation and social reintegration

    Article • African Health Sciences, November 2019, African Journals Online (AJOL)

    Ugochukwu Chinonso Okolie

  38. Enhancing graduate employability: Why do higher education institutions have problems with teaching generic skills?

    Article • Policy Futures in Education, July 2019, SAGE Publications

    Ugochukwu Chinonso Okolie

  39. Room for improvement: A study of overconfidence in numerical skills among British graduates

    Article • Industry and Higher Education, July 2019, SAGE Publications

    Dieu Hack-Polay, Ugochukwu Chinonso Okolie

  40. Towards a responsible entrepreneurship education and the future of the workforce

    Article • The International Journal of Management Education, May 2019, Elsevier

    Ugochukwu Chinonso Okolie

  41. Graduate employability

    Article • Higher Education Skills and Work-based Learning, March 2019, Emerald

    Ugochukwu Chinonso Okolie

  42. Reclaiming education: Rising above examination malpractices, and its contextual factors on study progress in Nigeria

    Article • International Journal of Educational Development, March 2019, Elsevier

    Ugochukwu Chinonso Okolie

  43. Improving graduate outcomes for technical colleges in Nigeria

    Article • Australian Journal of Career Development, February 2019, SAGE Publications

    Ugochukwu Chinonso Okolie

  44. Improvement needs of Nigerian technical college teachers in teaching vocational and technical subjects

    Article • International Journal of Training Research, January 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Ugochukwu Chinonso Okolie

  45. Relevance of Entrepreneurship in TVET

    Article • January 2017, IGI Global

    Ugochukwu Chinonso Okolie

  46. TVET in Developing Nations and Human Development

    Article • January 2017, IGI Global

    Ugochukwu Chinonso Okolie

  47. Technical Education and Vocational Training in Developing Nations

    Article • January 2017, IGI Global

    Ugochukwu Chinonso Okolie

  48. Entrepreneurship Development through Technical and Vocational Education for Self-employment and Youth Empowerment in Africa

    Article • The International Journal of Learning Annual Review, January 2010, Common Ground Publishing

    Ugochukwu Chinonso Okolie