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Emmanuel Dumbuya – Online Submission, 2025
Njala University, as one of the leading higher education institutions in Sierra Leone, stands at the forefront of fostering innovation and entrepreneurship within its academic framework. This paper explores how Njala University can enhance its role in empowering students through targeted skills development, trade education, and entrepreneurial…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Educational Innovation, Entrepreneurship
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Tom Wilson – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2024
Trade unions have a long history of providing learning for their members. After years of decline this flourished after the 1997-2010 Labour government introduced the Union Learning Fund and legal rights for union learning representatives. This article reviews that extraordinary renaissance and discusses how a new Labour government could learn the…
Descriptors: Unions, Building Trades, Adult Learning, Foreign Countries
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Orana Sandri; Jan Hayes; Sarah Holdsworth – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2024
A global transition to low-carbon, resource-efficient economies is occurring in response to risks posed by climate change and environmental degradation. Hydrogen is proposed as a zero-carbon substitute for natural gas with the potential to reduce carbon emissions in homes and businesses. Trades, including gasfitting, will be affected by the…
Descriptors: Small Businesses, Energy, Efficiency, Climate
Emmanuel Dumbuya – Online Submission, 2025
The rapid pace of technological advancement and globalization is reshaping the landscape of work and innovation. This paper discusses the importance of empowering tomorrow's innovators through the development of essential skills, trade knowledge, and entrepreneurial competencies. By focusing on education, policy support, and community engagement,…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Sustainable Development, Empowerment, Innovation
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Rihab Wit Daryono; Nur Hidayat; Muhammad Nurtanto; Athok Fu'Adi – Journal of Technology and Science Education, 2024
The discrepancy between competence and real work in engineering graduates can be resolved with cooperation by the construction industry. Therefore, it is necessary to determine the appropriate and required architectural engineering competencies with the current demands and conditions of the construction industry. So, this study aims to analyze the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Construction Industry, Building Trades, Engineering Education
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Rob Strathdee – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2024
Concerns about the poor outcomes from school-based vocational education, which is heavily concentrated in schools serving disadvantaged communities, has led the State Government of Victoria, Australia, to implement major reforms, including abolishing the Victoria Certificate of Applied Learning. Instead, from 2023, learning in vocational education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Educational Change, Certification
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Álvarez-Sánchez, Cristina; Guillén, Héctor; Contento, Isobel R.; Koch, Pamela; Théodore, Florence L. – Health Education & Behavior, 2022
This study explored the psychosocial determinants of consumption of soda and other taxed sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) in Mexican construction workers (CWs) and whether consumption changed as a result of the 2014 SSB tax. We conducted a qualitative case study involving in-depth interviews and focus groups (FGs) with 30 Mexican CWs; supplemented…
Descriptors: Food, Foreign Countries, Building Trades, Taxes
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Teslim Bamidele Balogun – Education & Training, 2024
Purpose: This study aims to explore the opinions of Built Environment Professionals (BEP) on the usage of fourth-generation digital technologies in the construction industry. Design/methodology/approach: This study adopts a qualitative research approach and conducts semi-structured interviews with Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME)…
Descriptors: Technological Literacy, Information Technology, Construction Industry, Minority Groups
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Carnemolla, Phillippa; Galea, Natalie – Journal of Engineering Education, 2021
Background: The construction industry remains male dominated, despite the efforts of business and educational institutions to attract women into construction careers. Previous research has examined why female university students study construction management or engineering. To complement this knowledge, there is an opportunity to understand why so…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, High School Students, Building Trades
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Fu, Hanliang; Xia, Zhongjing; Tan, Yubing; Guo, Xiaotong – Journal of Civil Engineering Education, 2024
Worldwide, construction site accidents cause many casualties among construction workers every year. Although many safety guidelines that construction workers are urged to read and keep in mind have been formulated, it is still difficult for the traditional construction safety education mode to quickly and accurately improve the hazard recognition…
Descriptors: Construction Industry, Occupational Safety and Health, Building Trades, Employees
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Simphiwe Magnificent Msimango; Thokozani Isaac Mtshali; Samuel Dumazi Khoza – Research in Social Sciences and Technology, 2024
Continuous professional development for teachers will always be prioritized, especially in cases where there are obvious and conspicuous gaps in their subject-matter expertise and when they handle practical skills exercises with inadequate planning and delivery. Hence, this study explores the effects of equipping Civil Technology teachers with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inservice Teacher Education, Building Trades, Skill Development
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Marit Lensjø – Vocations and Learning, 2025
This narrative study followed 11 vocational teachers in the Building and Construction program and examined factors that influenced their transition from the construction site to upper secondary school. The recruitment path for most technical vocational teachers means moving directly from the construction site to the school, where they begin work…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Vocational Education Teachers, Trade and Industrial Education, Construction Industry
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Ilmari J. A. Puhakka; Markku Niemivirta; Liisa Postareff; Petri Nokelainen – Vocations and Learning, 2025
This study uses a person-centered approach to investigate construction workers' learning at work, focusing on their approaches to learning, self-efficacy beliefs and work engagement and how these vary according to their goal orientation profiles. Survey data were collected from Finnish construction sector employees (N = 1,280) in June 2021. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Construction Industry, Building Trades, Skilled Workers
Karan Ravindra Patil – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The construction industry has struggled with a disappointing safety record, with workers often failing to identify hazards on construction sites. While virtual reality (VR) training has shown promise in improving hazard recognition skills, it is essential to address not only the ability to identify hazards but also the factors influencing workers'…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Simulated Environment, Safety Education, Construction Industry
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Bonga Khuzwayo; Wolfgang Bernhardt – Africa Education Review, 2022
This study explores the incorporation of structural masonry into the undergraduate programmes of higher education institutions in South Africa, specifically focusing on civil engineering. This study is of an exploratory nature. A significant portion of the urban infrastructure in South Africa is predominantly built using structural masonry.…
Descriptors: Masonry, Undergraduate Study, Skilled Occupations, Building Trades
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