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Gambin, Lynn; Hogarth, Terence – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2021
An apprenticeship levy was introduced in England in 2017 to help the government meet its target of 3 million apprenticeships between 2015 and 2020. Training levies have been, until recently, something of an anathema in public policy circles in England with most having been abolished by the mid-1980s as the government moved towards creating a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Employer Attitudes, Apprenticeships, Taxes
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Bolli, Thomas; Caves, Katherine; Oswald-Egg, Maria Esther – Research in Higher Education, 2021
This paper analyzes whether and how attending an internship during tertiary education affects income. We address endogeneity with an IV approach that exploits information regarding whether the internship was a mandatory component of the study. We further address selection into programs with mandatory internship by using the share of mandatory…
Descriptors: College Graduates, College Students, Internship Programs, Income
Garton, Paul – Metropolitan Universities, 2021
Interest in universities as anchor institutions within their communities and cities is growing as civic leaders search for ways to build local wealth. Systematic analysis of the effects of anchor institution initiatives remains difficult due to the disparate nature of anchor initiatives and a relative lack of a shared language describing the work.…
Descriptors: Urban Universities, Economic Development, School Community Relationship, Institutional Characteristics
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Nizar Zulmi; Fatwa Tentama – Journal of Education and Learning (EduLearn), 2024
Vocational high schools aim to create graduates who are ready to work, but in reality, many graduates are not ready to work at this time. Low employability is the main problem. This study aims to design and test a theoretical model of the effect of entrepreneurial readiness, adversity quotient, and social intelligence on employability in…
Descriptors: Vocational High Schools, Entrepreneurship, Emotional Intelligence, Employment Potential
Nicky Denison; Les Newby; Peter Mackreth; Peter R. H. Slee – Metropolitan Universities, 2024
The Leeds Anchor Network (or system) was established in 2017 with eight founder organizations. In 2024, membership was 14 and represented 1 in 7 of the Leeds city workforce. Leeds Beckett University is a founding member. This paper explains how the system originated and developed, the role Leeds Beckett University has played in that process, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Service Learning, School Community Relationship, School Community Programs
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Williams, Daniel Grant – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2023
This paper introduces and uses Lakatos' idea of research programmes to summarise and critically evaluate academic discourse towards knowledge capital theory. The analysis uses rational reconstruction to formulate the components of the hardcore and protective belt of knowledge capital theory. By critically surveying the literature, it challenges…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, International Assessment
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Zhang, Hanwen – Journal of Student Financial Aid, 2023
As China moved from elite to mass higher education, student borrowers as the product of state intervention have surged. Yet little attention has been paid to their voices. This study conducts reflexive thematic analysis with a qualitative inquiry into lived experiences of 41 current borrowers. A five-factor typology of debt attitudes yields a…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Classification, Debt (Financial), Student Attitudes
Hurla, Laura Ellen – ProQuest LLC, 2023
In the spring of 2022, Learning Forward released an updated version of their professional learning standards. The concepts and research highlighted in the 2022 version of the standards are not necessarily new to the field of education. However, orchestrating the standards to create conditions for success and enact transformational processes for…
Descriptors: Standards, Faculty Development, Experienced Teachers, Educational Change
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Yusuf Ikbal Oldac Ed.; Lili Yang Ed.; Soyoung Lee Ed. – Palgrave Studies in Global Higher Education, 2023
This edited volume argues for positioning students at the centre of higher education, drawing from the concepts of student agency and self-formation. The volume highlights that higher education has broader and more important purposes than what a neoliberal human capital approach would suggest, and explores how students exercise their agency and…
Descriptors: Personal Autonomy, Higher Education, Educational Theories, Educational Practices
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Williams, John A., III; Davis, Alicia; Richardson, Sonyia C.; Lewis, Chance W. – Journal of School Leadership, 2022
School discipline disparities within the U.S. P-12 public schooling system have been a staple issue for over four decades. The enforcement of out-of-school suspensions, in particular by inexperienced teachers, have traditionally impacted Black and Latinx students more than White students. Yet teachers are not the final decision-makers regarding…
Descriptors: Assistant Principals, Employment Experience, Individual Differences, Suspension
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Hardy, Ian; Campbell, Todd – American Journal of Education, 2022
Purpose: Drawing upon research into standards reform, and theorizing of professional and political capital, this article seeks to understand the development of and advocacy for the Next Generation Science Standards in the United States. As well as revealing how professional capital exists in three dimensions--human, social, and decisional--the…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Science Education, Human Capital, Social Capital
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Tasçi, Gülsah – Research in Educational Administration & Leadership, 2022
The aim of the study is to investigate the meaning attributed by early-career researchers to academic mobility, the sources of motivation for mobility, and the difficulties and opportunities faced by these researchers during their academic activities. The present study employed the qualitative research method in order to understand the…
Descriptors: Researchers, Motivation, Experience, Barriers
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Mihut, Georgiana – Studies in Higher Education, 2022
Do employers prioritize university prestige above an applicant's skills in the hiring process? To distinguish between the effect of human capital in the hiring process from the effect of the name of the graduating university--while controlling for networking effects--2,400 fictitious applications were submitted to IT and accounting jobs in the US,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reputation, Universities, Job Applicants
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Turin, Ornat; Davidson, Shosh – Journal of Professional Capital and Community, 2022
Purpose: The current study examines the ways preschool teachers handle parents' WhatsApp groups. The study explores the associations between professional capital, perception of the application, and communication patterns with the parents utilizing WhatsApp, an instant message application. Design/methodology/approach: A group of 214 Israeli…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Preschool Teachers, Parents
Richard A. Gayle – ProQuest LLC, 2022
In 2013, roughly 7% of college graduates under 25 could not find employment, and about 37% were underemployed. Public university tuition costs increased by 42% between 1999 and 2012, and 71% of college graduates have an average of $29,400 in outstanding student debt. Employers for several decades have complained about how higher educational…
Descriptors: Business Schools, Business Administration Education, College Graduates, Education Work Relationship
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