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Suleman, Fátima; Videira, Pedro; Rodrigues Araújo, Emília – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2023
This research examines regional skill problems and the strategies adopted to reduce skill shortages by a set of employers (n = 16). The data collected in 2019 in a northern region in Portugal indicate considerable and persistent shortages of engineering and IT graduates and non-graduates for operational jobs. The employers implement anticipative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Job Skills, Vocational Education, Labor Needs
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Smith, Emma – Review of Education, 2017
A "crisis account" of shortages of well-qualified scientists, engineers, mathematicians and technologists has shaped education policy in the UK and the USA for decades. The apparent poor quality of school science education along with insufficient numbers of well-qualified teachers have been linked to skills shortages by government and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Scientists, Engineering, Technical Occupations