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Kashefpakdel, Elnaz T.; Percy, Christian – Journal of Education and Work, 2017
There is significant policy interest in the issue of young people's fractured transitions into the labour market. Many scholars and policy-makers believe that changes in the education system and labour market over recent decades have created a complex world for young people; and that this can partly be addressed by enhanced career education while…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Career Education, Cohort Analysis, Labor Market
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Bark, Caroline; Brooks, Greg – British Journal of Special Education, 2016
There is evidence that pupils with weak literacy skills struggle on transition to secondary school. Many experience a drop in attainment in the summer break between the two. A British government-funded programme of rigorously designed research on boosting literacy at transition had (by 2015) found only four of 15 interventions evaluated had…
Descriptors: Literacy, Learning Problems, Secondary School Students, Quasiexperimental Design
Buchanan, Emily; Stevens, Eleanor; Straw, Suzanne – National Foundation for Educational Research, 2014
The SpringBoard Bursary Foundation (SpringBoard) commissioned the National Foundation for Education Research (NFER) to undertake an evaluation of its activities and impacts between 2013 and 2018. This interim and summary report presents the findings of the first year of the evaluation. SpringBoard was established in 2012 to transform the lives of…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Program Evaluation, Disadvantaged Youth, Poverty Programs
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Dadley, E. M.; Edwards, B. – British Journal of Religious Education, 2007
This article reports on an investigation into the retention of secondary religious education teachers trained at one institution over a ten-year period. The initial hypothesis was that many of these teachers would no longer be teaching, or would no longer be teaching religious education. However, the authors found that a high percentage of…
Descriptors: Investigations, Religious Education, Teacher Persistence, Secondary School Teachers