NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Audience
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
Program for International…1
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Showing 31 to 45 of 60 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Zhang, Qian – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
Internships are a vital component of vocational education systems. The aim of this study is to understand whether internship programs at vocational schools are correlated with the long-run wages of students. To analyze this, I conduct three sets of analyses using longitudinal survey data from 2013 to 2014 on more than 12,000 vocational students in…
Descriptors: Internship Programs, Vocational Education, Wages, Correlation
Ng, Betsy, Ed. – Springer, 2022
This book presents the most comprehensive discussion of emerging trends in higher education in the Asia Pacific, ranging from graduate attributes to integrated workplace learning, with an in-depth focus on work readiness, employability and career development. It draws on the relationship between graduate attributes and employability, as well as…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Employment Potential, Education Work Relationship, Career Readiness
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Yi, Hongmei; Li, Guirong; Li, Liying; Loyalka, Prashant; Zhang, Linxiu; Xu, Jiajia; Kardanova, Elena; Shi, Henry; Chu, James – Comparative Education Review, 2018
An increasing number of policy makers in developing countries have made the mass expansion of upper-secondary vocational education and training (VET) a top priority. The goal of this study is to examine whether VET fulfills these objectives of building skills and abilities along multiple dimensions and further identify which school-level factors…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Vocational Education, Longitudinal Studies, Safety
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Loyalka, Prashant; Li, Guirong; Yi, Hongmei; Johnson, Natalie; Shi, Henry – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2016
As demand for skilled labor increases, policymakers in an increasing number of developing countries have turned toward vocational education and training (VET) to educate and prepare students. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) published a 2012 report "acknowledging the need for [VET] to contribute to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Randomized Controlled Trials, Accountability, Quality Assurance
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Xu, Cora Lingling – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2017
Drawing on in-depth interview data from 31 mainland Chinese (MLC) students in a Hong Kong university, this article conceptualises MLC and Hong Kong higher education as two dissonant but interrelated subfields of the Chinese higher education field. The article argues that these MLC students' habitus, one that possesses rich economic, social and…
Descriptors: Social Capital, Interviews, Foreign Countries, Cultural Capital
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
He, Yunjuan; Qin, Xizhen – Foreign Language Annals, 2017
This small-scale study reported American students' perception of the effect of their internship conducted in a study abroad program on their development of Chinese language proficiency, intercultural competence, and professional knowledge. The results indicate that a self-evaluated successful internship allows interns with intermediate-level…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Internship Programs, Foreign Countries, North Americans
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Rose, Philip – Asia-Pacific Journal of Cooperative Education, 2015
Internship participation has undergone rapid expansion over the last three decades, to the point where today many interns and host organizations regard internships as the preferred pathway into entry-level professional positions. However, organizational research has largely neglected the investigation of internships as an employment context, thus…
Descriptors: Internship Programs, Program Effectiveness, Wages, Supervisors
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Ma, Wanhua; Yue, Yun – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2015
China's rapidly expanding university system aims to balance quantity and quality through a variety of measures, including internationalization. This paper employs data from a survey of 1264 students from 39 higher education institutions in order to understand students' view on institutional approaches to internationalization. The data show that…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Research Universities, Foreign Countries, International Education
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Choi, Serene Hyun-Jin; Nieminen, Timo A.; Maucort, G.; Gong, Y. X.; Bartylla, C.; Persson, M. – Australian Universities' Review, 2013
Research student internships in physics is one way that students can gain a broad range of research experience in a variety of research environments, and develop international contacts. We explore international physics research internships, focusing on the academic learning experiences, by interviewing four international research interns in a…
Descriptors: Physics, Foreign Countries, Internship Programs, Interviews
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Xu, Bo – English Language Teaching, 2019
Recently, many local normal universities have been carrying out transformation and development project. Leshan Normal University, a local normal university, is prone to change traditional talents cultivation mode. By taking LSNU as an example, this paper attempts to make an exploration on constructing application-oriented talents training system…
Descriptors: Talent Development, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Miller, Kari Knutson; Gonzalez, Amber M. – Issues in Educational Research, 2016
This paper examines outcomes associated with participation in short-term, international internship experiences. Results suggest short-term international internship experiences contribute to rich personal and professional development outcomes. Findings highlight participant challenges associated with initial internship experiences, professional…
Descriptors: Child Development, Internship Programs, Faculty Development, Experiential Learning
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Ye, Wangbei – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2016
Traditional teacher education's supposed failure to prepare prospective teachers for classroom realities (the transfer problem) is a widely discussed topic in the teacher education literature. Previous studies have focused on causal relationships between teaching and such factors as pre-service teacher education programmes, contextual factors in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Transfer of Training
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Rose, Philip – Asia-Pacific Journal of Cooperative Education, 2013
At the current juncture of China's economic development, the mismatch between the supply of university graduates and contemporary organizations' staffing demands is becoming increasingly evident. Thus, student participation in internships and their use by organizations, as means to recruit and select graduate talent in China has undergone rapid…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Talent Development, Internship Programs, Context Effect
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Bremner, Stephen – Written Communication, 2012
This article tracks the socialization of a Chinese intern into a Hong Kong PR company and considers the factors that enabled her to move toward acquiring the discourse of the profession. Taking a case study approach, the research is based on a detailed daily journal written by the intern during her internship, and two interviews. Over the 3-month…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Internship Programs, Socialization, Organizational Culture
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Liu, Shu; Ma, Peijun; Li, Dong – IEEE Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training, Proceedings (MS), 2012
The current education model and practices in the Higher education sector in China have been successful in educating students for academic excellence, for producing industry-linked and practice-oriented graduates, who could quickly fit into the industrial working environment, has been a problem. There is a big gap between the theoretical knowledge…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Engineering Education, Computer Software, College Curriculum
Pages: 1  |  2  |  3  |  4