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Messer, David – Education & Training, 2018
Purpose: In the UK, concern frequently has been voiced that young people lack appropriate employability skills. One way to address this is to provide work based placements. In general, previous research findings have indicated that young people find such placements useful because of help with career choice and relevant skills. However, most…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Job Placement, Job Skills, Employment Potential
Tennant, Stuart; Murray, Mike; Gilmour, Bob; Brown, Linda – Industry and Higher Education, 2018
For civil engineering undergraduates, short-term industrial work placement provides an invaluable learning experience. Notwithstanding the near-universal endorsement of short-term placement programmes, the resulting experience is rarely articulated through the student voice. This article provides an analysis of 174 questionnaires returned by…
Descriptors: Job Placement, Higher Education, Civil Engineering, Learner Engagement
Fenta, Haile Mekonnen; Asnakew, Zeleke Siraye; Debele, Petros Kibebew; Nigatu, Sifelig Taye; Muhaba, Aragaw Mulu – Journal of Teaching and Learning for Graduate Employability, 2019
The purpose of this study was to determine the job placement profiles of the graduates of Bahir Dar University and the relevance of school-related factors to job placement. The study was conducted at Bahir Dar University with participants who were first-degree graduates from the 2015 and 2016 cohorts. Stratified multistage random sampling was used…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Job Placement, Profiles, Universities
Boustan, Leah Platt; Langan, Andrew – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2019
We document wide and persistent variation in women's representation and success across graduate programs in economics. Using new data on early career outcomes for recent graduates, including first job placement, publications and promotion, we compare (anonymized) departments on outcomes for women relative to men graduating from the same program.…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Females, Academic Achievement, Economics Education
Howley, Craig; Howley, Aimee; Telfer, Deborah – Mid-Western Educational Researcher, 2017
This survey research investigated the experience of Ohio districts using paraprofessionals assigned to special education students. This study provides a unique statewide description of district experience. Based on themes from the literature and preliminary conversations with educational practitioners in Ohio, the survey conceptualized district…
Descriptors: Special Education, Paraprofessional School Personnel, School Districts, Surveys
Walsh, Sharon; Flannery, Darragh; Cullinan, John – Education Economics, 2018
We utilise a dataset of students in their final year of upper secondary education in Ireland to provide a detailed examination of the preferences of prospective students for higher education institutions (HEIs). Our analysis is based upon a discrete choice experiment methodology with willingness to pay estimates derived for specific HEI attributes…
Descriptors: Preferences, College Bound Students, Student Attitudes, High School Seniors
Dalal, Neha; Stein, Beth; Thompson, Jessica – Institute for College Access & Success, 2018
This new TICAS (The Institute for College Access & Success) report details existing requirements that govern the calculation and provision of post-college employment metrics, documents weaknesses in existing data, and recommends federal and state policy changes to support comparable, accurate, accessible information for measuring post-college…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Employment Patterns, Success, Education Work Relationship
Kay, Judie; Ferns, Sonia; Russell, Leoni; Smith, Judith; Winchester-Seeto, Theresa – International Journal of Work-Integrated Learning, 2019
Work-integrated learning (WIL) is a national priority and a strategic direction for Australian universities. To increase industry engagement, there is a need to identify emerging WIL models that enable flexibility while optimizing outcomes for stakeholders. This Australian Technology Network (ATN) project explored approaches that overcome…
Descriptors: Work Experience Programs, Small Businesses, Foreign Countries, College Students
Messina, Judith – Center for an Urban Future, 2017
Small businesses have been sparking much of the recent job growth in New York City. However, there is a major disconnect in the city's workforce development system when it comes to working with small businesses. This report outlines a number of steps that policymakers, business leaders, and workforce providers could take to make workforce programs…
Descriptors: Small Businesses, Labor Force Development, Barriers, Urban Areas
Dunn, Louise; Nicholson, Rosemary; Ross, Kirstin; Bricknell, Lisa; Davies, Belinda; Hannelly, Toni; Lampard, Jane-Louise; Murray, Zoe; Oosthuizen, Jacques; Roiko, Anne; Wood, James – International Journal of Work-Integrated Learning, 2018
The introduction of a new work-integrated learning (WIL) policy for university environmental health education programs seeking professional accreditation identified a number of problems. This included how to evaluate the acceptability of differing approaches to WIL for course accreditation purposes and a need to develop an agreed understanding of…
Descriptors: Work Experience Programs, Accreditation (Institutions), Job Placement, Student Placement
Tee, Lisa; Ferns, Sonia; Hughes, Jeffery D. – Journal of Teaching and Learning for Graduate Employability, 2018
This study gathered and analysed the perceptions of graduates, employers, and the course team regarding graduate capabilities required for early professional success in pharmacy and the extent to which these capabilities are demonstrated in new graduates. The Graduate Employability Indicator (GEI) surveys were administered online to gather…
Descriptors: Employment Qualifications, Pharmacy, Health Personnel, Success
Jackson, Denise – International Journal of Work-Integrated Learning, 2018
There is broad acknowledgement that higher education should produce career-ready graduates and the role of practical experience--such as part-time employment, unregulated extra-curricular internships and work-integrated learning (WIL)--in achieving this. WIL is critical for developing the non-technical skills, disciplinary expertise and career…
Descriptors: Career Readiness, Workplace Learning, Foreign Countries, Integrated Activities
Boyd, Miranda – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The goal of this study was to understand the relationship between the graduation rates of first-generation college students and the offering of multidisciplinary student support services by universities. Recent decades have witnessed a rise in first-generation college students, but little research on their graduation rates. The literature is also…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Graduation Rate, Predictor Variables, Student Personnel Services
Galán-Mañas, Anabel – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2019
Current European Higher Education Area demands for university degree programmes to focus attention on competence development have brought about the need for effective competence assessment tools. A professional portfolio is one of the tools that may be used by teachers to assess students' professional competences; besides, it may be used by…
Descriptors: Portfolio Assessment, Translation, Interpretive Skills, Professional Development
Bray, Jacob – Association of Community College Trustees, 2019
This issue brief summarizes the economic conditions in rural communities since the Great Recession and highlights the educational attainment of rural men. It then describes the barriers to attending college that rural men face and these promising efforts that Hinds Community College and the Louisiana Community and Technical College System (LCTCS)…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, College Students, Males, Community Colleges