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Mok, Ka Ho; Wu, Alfred M. – Journal of Education and Work, 2016
This article attempts to investigate the relationship between the massification of higher education, labour market and social mobility in contemporary China. Though only a short period of time has elapsed from elite to mass education, China's higher education has been characterised as a wide, pervasive massification process. Similar to other East…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Correlation, Higher Education, Labor Market
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Sadownik, Alicja R.; Mikiewicz, Piotr – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2016
After 2005, approximately two million Poles emigrated, choosing mostly Britain as their destination. Quantitative reports paint a picture of the typical Polish immigrant as a person between the ages of 31-39, who, with a vocational (or equivalent) education, is active on the labor market. This paper reports on a qualitative study of six typical…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Catholic Schools, Statistical Analysis, Labor Market
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Bailey, Michael A.; Rosenthal, Jeffrey S.; Yoon, Albert H. – Studies in Higher Education, 2016
In many educational settings, students may have an incentive to take courses where high grades are easier to achieve, potentially corroding student learning, evaluation of student achievement, and the fairness and efficiency of post-graduation labor outcomes. A grading system that takes into account heterogeneity of teacher standards and student…
Descriptors: Grades (Scholastic), Law Schools, Admission (School), Scores
Policnik, Jasmina; Sauli Miklavcic, Alicia Leonor; Alupei-Durach, Flavia; Nožica, Žarko; Chrást, Ondrej; Voldánová, Iva; Karpíšek, Michal; Dinya, László; Medve, Anna; Wéber, György; Racsko, Réka; Perényi, Petra; Camilleri, Anthony F. – Online Submission, 2016
PROCSEE is a policy-oriented project, aimed at strengthening the provision of professional higher education, by strengthening the policy-work conducted by umbrella organizations representing professional higher education institutions in Central and South-Eastern in Europe. Working together over three years, the project intends to: (1) identify the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Higher Education, Professional Education
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Zheng, Xiaying; Stapleton, Laura M.; Henneberger, Angela K.; Woolley, Michael E. – Grantee Submission, 2016
The science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) workforce, and therefore STEM education, has become increasingly central to the U.S. economic growth and competitiveness over the past five decades. Nationally, the number of STEM workforce positions and the number of STEM postsecondary graduates have increased over time, but there is…
Descriptors: STEM Education, College Graduates, Education Work Relationship, College Outcomes Assessment
Siekmann, Gitta – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2016
There is a strong belief by most governments, enterprises and higher education providers that competence in the academic fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) is not developing as quickly as required in spite of the importance for innovation, productivity, prosperity and international standing. This belief is often…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Technical Education, Vocational Education, Job Skills
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Groves, Julian M.; O'Connor, Paul – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2018
We examine school choices made by western expatriate parents in post-colonial Hong Kong in order to understand the essence of imagined global citizenship and its implications for existing ethnic and class inequalities in the education system. Responding to changes in the global job market, a small but increasingly visible group of parents are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Choice, Parent Attitudes, Ethnic Groups
Gardner, Phil – Collegiate Employment Research Institute, 2018
This year approximately 3,300 employers attempted the survey with 2.560 providing enough information to be included in our analyses. Seventy-three percent (1859 respondents) are recruiters seeking full-time talent or hiring managers overseeing talent acquisition within their organizations. Other contributors include internship and co-op managers…
Descriptors: Labor Market, Recruitment, Employers, Employees
European Training Foundation, 2018
This report provides an overview of key policy developments in education, training, and employment in Lebanon. It contains sections that review the country's key demographic and economic characteristics; education and training trends, challenges, policy and institutional setting; and labour market and employment trends, challenges, policy and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, Secondary School Students, International Assessment
Gallagher, Sean – New England Journal of Higher Education, 2016
Post-baccalaureate education has emerged as one of the fastest growing segments of higher education. Over the past decade, master's degree enrollment in the U.S. has grown 35%--and the share of adults that hold a master's degree has gone from less than 7% to nearly 9% of the population. Keeping the supply and demand dynamics of basic economic…
Descriptors: Graduate Study, Masters Degrees, Supply and Demand, Salary Wage Differentials
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Nguyen, Quynh Thi Nhu – International Education Studies, 2016
Values education has been discussed extensively in many parts of the world in the context of the dramatic changes associated with globalization which directly affects the set of human values. Vietnam is a developing country with an intermixture of cultural heritage and social-economic transformation. In order to achieve the goal of becoming a…
Descriptors: Values, Asian Culture, Western Civilization, Vietnamese People
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Fong, Anthony B.; Makkonen, Reino; Jaquet, Karina – Regional Educational Laboratory West, 2016
This report projects California teacher retirements at the state and county levels for 2014/15-2023/24, updating a previously published report that projected California teacher retirements for 2006/07-2015/16. The current study finds that 25 percent of California teachers who were teaching in 2013/14 are projected to retire over 2014/15-2023/24.…
Descriptors: Teacher Retirement, Geographic Location, Counties, Tables (Data)
Winthrop, Rebecca; McGivney, Eileen – Brookings Institution, 2016
Skills for a Changing World, a collaborative project, seeks to identify how a new generation of skills can best be developed and enhanced in young children and students so they can navigate education and work in the face of changing social, technological, and economic demands. The focus of Skills for a Changing World is breadth--breadth of skills,…
Descriptors: 21st Century Skills, Skill Development, Technological Advancement, Labor Market
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Nelson, Anders; Sandberg, Mikael – Studies in Higher Education, 2017
This study investigated labour-market orientations of students at a Swedish University with a dual/diverse focus on vocational/academic objectives. The aim was to investigate whether and how levels of students' labour-market orientation vary with social background, change during the study period, and are related to approaches to studying and…
Descriptors: Labor Market, Employment Opportunities, Questionnaires, Factor Analysis
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Limon, David; Novak Lukanovic, Sonja – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2017
The paper considers whether bilingualism has an economic value in Slovenia's two ethnically mixed regions, or whether its value is more related to identity, and restricted primarily to the personal, educational and cultural spheres. Specifically, it asks whether bilingualism is rewarded on the labour market and what local people think about this…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Ethnic Groups, Slavic Languages, Foreign Countries
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