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Riccardi, Pierfrancesco; Prete, Giuseppe; Chiappetta, Federica; Meringolo, Claudio – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2022
Because of the increasing importance of the so called "third mission", the number of activities toward the public, conducted at various scales by individual scientists, research institutions and universities, is steadily increasing. Educational programs developed by universities and research institutions for secondary schools have also…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Education, Barriers, Universities
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Barone, Carlo; Assirelli, Giulia – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2020
Gender segregation in higher education (GSHE) is recognized as a key factor to explain the persistence of gender inequalities in the labor market despite the reversal of gender gap in educational attainment. Women are systematically overrepresented in fields of study, such as social sciences and the humanities, which offer relatively poor labor…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Gender Differences, Labor Market, Equal Opportunities (Jobs)
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Mariuzzo, Andrea – History of Education, 2016
This paper, largely based on new, previously unused documents from US archives, considers the consultancy group financed by the Ford Foundation in 1960 to support the school reforms the Italian Minister of Education Giuseppe Medici was promoting. The group was headed by James Bryant Conant, and its evaluations were based on principles of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, International Relations, Change Strategies
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Di Fabio, Annamaria; Kenny, Maureen E. – Journal of Career Development, 2015
Drawing from career construction and positive youth development perspectives, this study explores, among 254 Italian high school students, the relationship between emotional intelligence (EI) and support from friends and teachers with indices of adaptive career development. Results from the full canonical correlational model revealed that…
Descriptors: Emotional Intelligence, Social Support Groups, Youth, Adolescent Development
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Green, Andy; Green, Francis; Pensiero, Nicola – Comparative Education Review, 2015
This article examines cross-country variations in adult skills inequality and asks why skills in Anglophone countries are so unequal. Drawing on the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's recent Survey of Adult Skills and other surveys, it investigates the differences across countries and country groups in inequality in both…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English, Comparative Education, Adult Literacy
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Nardi, Bernardo; Lucarelli, Chiara; Talamonti, Marta; Arimatea, Emidio; Fiori, Valentina; Moltedo-Perfetti, Andrès – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2015
An observational study of young Italian NEETs (not in education, employment or training) and their EET peers (in education, employment or training) was conducted in the framework of a European Union (EU) project. Main characteristics and behaviours were compared to gain insights into the NEET condition in Italy. The sample included 111 NEETs…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Observation, Demography, Socioeconomic Background