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Alison Taylor; Catalina Bobadilla Sandoval – Vocations and Learning, 2024
Balancing part-time work and studies has become commonplace for university students in Canada and other countries where the costs of education have risen over time. While there is a substantial literature on the impacts of term-time work on studies, little has been written about campus employment programs, which are becoming more commonplace in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Employment, College Students, Part Time Employment
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Elisa Do; Kelsey Harvey; Celeste Suart – International Journal for Students as Partners, 2024
In recent years, many universities across the world have been implementing students-as-partners (SaP) programs to collaborate with students on teaching and learning projects. Within these SaP programs, for the benefits that cross-disciplinary learning brings, interdisciplinary partnership has been made a priority. To assess the extent to which…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Partnerships in Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Teacher Student Relationship
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Taylor, Alison – Journal of Education and Work, 2022
Although universities promote undergraduate degrees as journeys of exploration and reflection, they are also viewed by students as investments in professional careers. This paper draws on a study of 57 second-year students at a research-intensive university in Canada to explore the subjective dimensions of time and school-work rhythms in students'…
Descriptors: Diversity, Student Employment, Undergraduate Students, Foreign Countries
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Laberge, Luc; Auclair, Julie; Busque, Marc-Antoine; Maltais, Alexandre; Élise Ledoux – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2023
The aim was to explore predictors of employment during the school year in adolescents aged 13. We report on a population-based sample of children followed-up from 5 months to this day. Parents and children answered questions on family, school, health, and work. A multinomial logistic regression was used to identify the predictors of informal and…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Predictor Variables, Student Employment, Time Perspective
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Moodie, Gavin; Wheelahan, Leesa; Bragg, Debra D. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2023
This article focuses on adult working learners who attend postsecondary institutions in Canada and the United States. We identify how these institutions deliver curriculum and instruction in the form of career-technical education (CTE) and vocational education offering occupational credentials. In British Columbia and the U.S., most vocational…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Learning, Employees, Postsecondary Education
Givens, Marlee, Ed.; Slutskaya, Sofia, Ed. – ALA Editions, 2022
Technical services departments are increasingly expected to do more with less, which means that finding a balance between meeting service demands and developing staff knowledge and skills is more challenging than ever. Today's next gen catalogs, changing cataloging rules, and diverse formats and delivery models demand that technical services…
Descriptors: Organizational Change, Libraries, Library Services, Staff Development
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Ho, Candy – International Journal of Work-Integrated Learning, 2023
Annually, thousands of post-secondary students studying accounting in Canada participate in the Chartered Professional Accountant Recruitment (CPA Recruit) process to secure employment with accounting firms. Despite the competitive process, there has been negligible research studying how students secure these coveted positions. This qualitative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Taxonomy, Work Experience Programs, Accounting
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Webb, Katy Kavanagh – Journal of Learning Spaces, 2020
During this research, the author attempted to locate institutions and background information about spaces that would be similar in scope to a digital scholarship lab (or scholar's lab being proposed in a university library. The information is meant to serve as a guide for the space design project, but it will be an important benchmarking tool for…
Descriptors: Benchmarking, Academic Libraries, Electronic Libraries, Educational Facilities Design
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Mallozzi, Rebecca; Drewery, David – International Journal of Work-Integrated Learning, 2019
The purpose of this grounded theory study was to explore the notion of inclusion from the perspective of LGBTQ+ co-op students in the context of their work term experiences, including searching for work and during the work term. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with eight LGBTQ+ students who had at least one previous work term experience…
Descriptors: LGBTQ People, Inclusion, Cooperative Education, Student Employment
Frenette, Marc; Lu, Yuqian; Chan, Winnie – Statistics Canada, 2019
The number of temporary residents that hold a postsecondary study permit in Canada has increased rapidly in recent years, going from 201,186 in 2009 to 294,020 in 2015--a 46.1% increase. The purpose of this study is to describe the postsecondary experience and early labour market outcomes of study permit holders (international students). The study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Postsecondary Education, Student Experience, Foreign Students
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Howe, Edward R.; Ramirez, Gloria; Walton, Patrick – Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education, 2023
Universities in Canada are increasingly attracting international students, but few studies have examined their academic and social experiences. This research identified the key supports and barriers for international students in order to make policy-relevant recommendations. This convergent mixed-methods study combined survey (n = 104) and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Foreign Students, Study Abroad
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Brockerhoff-Macdonald, Bettina; Sckopke, Christina – Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, 2021
Why are newly admitted students to online programs not registering in courses in the session for which they applied for admission? Two surveys were completed (January 2019 and May 2019) by students who had accepted an offer of admission into an online program at Laurentian University, but had subsequently not registered for courses for the…
Descriptors: Barriers, College Admission, College Applicants, College Students
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Taylor, Alison – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2022
University students today are preparing for a more precarious future than previous generations, and the global pandemic has exacerbated their sense of insecurity and vulnerability. Drawing on data from a longitudinal study of undergraduate students at a large Canadian university, this paper examines the narratives of working students, before and…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics
Wall, Katherine – Statistics Canada, 2020
This paper provides insight on how postsecondary students' financial situation was impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Results are based on the recent Statistics Canada crowdsourcing data collection completed by over 100,000 postsecondary students between April 19 and May 1, 2020.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Educational Finance, Student Employment
Soiferman, L. Karen – Online Submission, 2021
Once students get to university attendance is no longer mandatory as it was in their secondary classrooms. This leads to students being able to make their own decisions regarding attendance and it is important, as instructors, to understand the reasoning behind their decisions to attend or not attend their classes. In an informal survey of 33…
Descriptors: Attendance, COVID-19, Pandemics, Learning Motivation
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