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An Industry Review of Recent Graduate Employees' Performance Compared to Workplace Expectations: An Environmental Science Case Study
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Sarah Ann Richardt; Steven Towner; Gayle Brent; James Guy Castley – Industry and Higher Education, 2024
This study developed and tested a model of higher education environmental science program review through industry-wide surveys of environmental science graduate employers. We surveyed 62 environmental professionals who manage recent environmental science graduate employees in eastern Australia. The survey captured expectations of graduates' skill…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Industry, Environmental Education, College Graduates
Understanding the Nature of School Partnerships with Business in Delivery of Vocational Programmes in Schools in Australia
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Polesel, John; Klatt, Malgorzata; Blake, Damian; Starr, Karen – Journal of Education and Work, 2017
This article seeks to provide a school perspective on the nature and quality of the partnerships which schools form with businesses in order to deliver work placements and workplace learning in Australia. It found that the ability of schools to engage with external partners depended on the ability of school leaders to define and communicate the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Partnerships in Education, School Business Relationship, Vocational Education
Pathways from Rural Schools: Does School VET Make a Difference?
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Johns, Susan; Kilpatrick, Sue; Loechel, Barton; Prescott, Libby – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2004
This report investigates the medium-term outcomes of vocational education and training (VET) programs delivered by rural schools for youth and their communities. Former students from six rural school clusters in six states were surveyed, including those who participated in school VET programs and those who did not. Principals and school VET…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Areas, Rural Schools, Vocational Education