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Haensel, Angela Meyer – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This qualitative research focuses on the academic goals of English Language Learners (ELL) enrolled at Cincinnati State College in the summer of 2018. Also, the study examines options the College can take to better serve this student population. The phenomenological approach of this study reveals its major findings, while an ethnographic narrative…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Vocational Education, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Horstmanshof, Louise; Moore, Keri – Asia-Pacific Journal of Cooperative Education, 2016
Work-integrated learning (WIL) is vital for preparing health-work students for practice. WIL activities have multiple stakeholders, each with their own set of expectations and requirements, both explicit and implicit. Negotiations to provide these learning experiences for students happen at many levels and those at the coalface are often unaware…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Work Experience Programs, Medical Students, Clinical Experience
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Smith, Calvin; Ferns, Sonia; Russell, Leoni – Asia-Pacific Journal of Cooperative Education, 2016
Research into work-integrated learning continues to show through a variety of small-scale and anecdotal studies, various positive impacts on student learning, work-readiness, personal and cognitive development and other outcomes. Seldom are these research findings strongly generalizable because of such factors as small sample sizes,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Work Experience Programs, Job Placement, Instructional Design
Schaberg, Kelsey – MDRC, 2017
Individuals with low incomes often struggle to advance in the labor market, yet at the same time, some employers report difficulty finding workers with the necessary skills. WorkAdvance is a workforce development model that seeks to address the needs of both of these groups through its "dual customer" approach. The model offers training…
Descriptors: Labor Force Development, Models, Training Methods, Low Income Groups
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Organ, Alison – Research-publishing.net, 2017
This case study examines student perceptions of the experiential value of a work placement carried out as part of a languages degree programme. The data for the case study consists of a corpus of 67 reports submitted from 2011 to 2015, reflecting on placements carried out in Europe, Japan, the UK and the US. The data offers a student view of the…
Descriptors: Employment Potential, Instructional Innovation, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning
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Guillotin, Bertrand – Journal of International Education in Business, 2018
Purpose: Anti-globalization and protectionism movements have transformed strategic internationalization, international business (IB) student engagement and enrollment growth into very complex endeavors. Whereas the literature is rather scarce on solutions, this paper aims to offer some best practices at a highly ranked IB program that can be very…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Global Approach, International Trade, Public Policy
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Thompson, Carleen M.; Bates, Lyndel; Bates, Merrelyn – Asia-Pacific Journal of Cooperative Education, 2016
If work-integrated learning (WIL) improves students' work self-efficacy (WSE), are students who do not participate in WIL disadvantaged? This study answers this question by examining differences in WSE between final-year criminal justice students at Griffith University (Brisbane, Australia) who elected to undertake WIL and those who did not.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Work Experience Programs, Student Participation, Advantaged
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Hoven, Hanno; Ford, Rebecca; Willmot, Anne; Hagan, Stephanie; Siegrist, Johannes – Research on Social Work Practice, 2016
Objective: People who are homeless experience many barriers that affect their ability to gain and sustain work. In this study, we investigate whether personal job coaching support contributes toward employment success. Methods: The short- and long-term employment outcomes of 2,480 clients participating in a labor market program were analyzed.…
Descriptors: Success, Homeless People, Employment Potential, Employment Services
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Nord, Derek – Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2016
Job search, job placement, and on-the-job supports are valuable services provided to many people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) to obtain work in the community. Investigating those who were unemployed at the time of service entry, this study seeks to extend understanding about the effect of services. Using extant data, a…
Descriptors: Employment Opportunities, Employment Services, Developmental Disabilities, Intellectual Disability
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Staton, Mark G. – Marketing Education Review, 2016
The area of digital marketing is a difficult one for course development. Not only is it a relatively new topic area--having become popular after many marketing faculty completed their academic training--it is a constantly changing one wherein "innovative" tools are continuously being replaced within the industry. After uncovering what…
Descriptors: Job Placement, Certification, Marketing, Social Media
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Espeland, Wendy Nelson; Sauder, Michael – Russell Sage Foundation, 2016
Students and the public routinely consult various published college rankings to assess the quality of colleges and universities and easily compare different schools. However, many institutions have responded to the rankings in ways that benefit neither the schools nor their students. In "Engines of Anxiety," sociologists Wendy Espeland…
Descriptors: Reputation, Periodicals, Educational Quality, Student Attitudes
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Barsoum, Ghada – Africa Education Review, 2017
Building on a mixed method research approach, this article reports on an analysis of the difference between public and private higher education institutions (HEIs) in Egypt in terms of teaching methods, quality assessment approaches and alumni engagement. An analysis of the survey data compared the experiences of 1,713 graduates of both private…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Mixed Methods Research, Foreign Countries, Accountability
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Akhurst, Jacqueline – Psychology Teaching Review, 2016
The drives to internationalise the UK curriculum and psychology students' desires to work in communities are brought together in this paper. International community-based learning (ICBL) links with many psychology students' motivations to make contributions to others; with the potential to enhance students' learning and cultural sensitivities. The…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Comparative Analysis, Case Studies, Program Effectiveness
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Shekhawat, Giriraj Singh; Sturm, Sean; Dunham, Annette – Journal of Teaching and Learning for Graduate Employability, 2017
POPLHLTH 302: Health Service Placement is a community health placement program that forms the capstone course for the Bachelor in Health Sciences (BHSc) at the University of Auckland. It aims to enable Population Health students to develop through experience the competencies that they will need to be employed in a broad range of roles in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Health Sciences, Student Placement
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López-Moreno, Cristina – Research-publishing.net, 2017
This chapter will examine the employability profile of outwardly mobile British graduates and the ways in which their international skillset fits the UK labour market. It will draw upon several recent reports to highlight the current shortage of professionals with such global skills. In this context, the chapter will demonstrate that…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Employment Potential, Foreign Countries, College Graduates
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