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Icardi, Rossella – International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2021
Context: Existing studies have explored the association between workplace training and wages suggesting that training participation may have a positive association with wages. However, we still know very little about whether this association varies between men and women. Through its potential positive association with wages, training may balance…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, On the Job Training, Outcomes of Education, Salary Wage Differentials
Kis, Viktoria; Windisch, Hendrickje Catriona – OECD Publishing, 2018
This paper looks at the importance of mechanisms that give formal recognition to vocational skills acquired through work-based learning and how such mechanisms might be developed. It describes how skill recognition can benefit individuals, employers and society as a whole, and identifies in which contexts skill recognition has the highest…
Descriptors: Job Skills, On the Job Training, Skill Development, Professional Recognition
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Dahan, Aubepine – European Journal of Education, 2007
Professionalisation, defined as the transmission of competences adapted to the job-market, is one of the new missions of Doctoral Schools in France. Interviews with supervisors reveal a number of ambivalent attitudes towards this new policy. Supervisors do support the rhetoric of professionalisation, but are powerless to push their students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Supervision, Schizophrenia, On the Job Training
Machado, Julien – European Journal of Vocational Training, 2008
Starting from the CVTS-2 survey in which responses by Austrian and French employers revealed their very limited use of "non-school" types of training (on-the-job training, self-learning, job rotation, apprenticeship and quality circles, etc.), the author searches for the reasons for these two European exceptions. Although certain…
Descriptors: Quality Circles, On the Job Training, Foreign Countries, Vocational Education
Social and Labour Bulletin, 1980
Three reports discuss on-the-job training for youth in France, establishment of a national training institute in the Dominican Republic, and problems and trends in hotel training. (SK)
Descriptors: Hotels, National Programs, On the Job Training, Vocational Education
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Evans, Karen; And Others – Comparative Education, 1990
Examines characteristics and roles of trainers from 25 diverse British companies engaged in on-the-job training programs for young people, particularly dropouts. Discusses management strategies and training for trainers. Compares trainer characteristics and training of trainers in the United Kingdom, France, and Greece. Contains 15 references. (SV)
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Foreign Countries, On the Job Training, Teacher Characteristics
de Blignieres-Legeraud, Anne; Gerard, Francoise; Selka, Reinhard; Voskamp, Heinz-Dieter; Laermanns, Mathias – 2000
This publication highlights the role of the tutor (a person providing on-the-job training to new hires and persons moving into new jobs while still functioning in the same or a similar job, rather than being a full-time trainer) in industry through a comparative study of these four European countries: Austria, France, Germany, and Spain. Following…
Descriptors: Adult Educators, Developed Nations, Educational Needs, Employer Employee Relationship
Dupont, Georges; Reis, Fernanda – 1991
A study examined employee training policies and their implementation in four or five large companies in five countries (Belgium, Spain, France, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom). Data were gathered through interviews by an expert in each of the countries using an interviewer's guide developed for the project (resulting in approximately 30…
Descriptors: Certification, Corporate Education, Developed Nations, Educational Policy
Simon-Zarca, Georgie – Training & Employment, 1996
A study was made of the state of apprenticeship in France, using data gathered through telephone interviews with apprentices. Of a targeted group of 6,000 young apprentices, 70% participated in the survey. The study found that, until recently, apprenticeships had generally been used in France to train students in manual trades. During the past 10…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Developed Nations, Education Work Relationship, Educational Change
Long, Mike – 2001
The conclusion of a 1999 Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) report that wage gains for training are higher for workers with lower levels of education was revisited using data for males from the 1997 Australian Survey of Education and Training (SET). The study used methods similar to the OECD report (ordinary least squares…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Educational Attainment, Employment Experience, Foreign Countries
Audet, Claudine – 1992
"Alternative" or cooperative education is a way of organizing instruction that combines education in an academic institution with training in a professional setting. The approach has attracted a renewed interest in Europe in the past few years because of its potential for motivating students, reducing student attrition, and raising the…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Apprenticeships, Cooperative Education, Educational Development
Meyers, Frederic – 1969
A comparison was made of the division of responsibility for preparation of workers for employment as between private and public institutions in France, Great Britain, Italy, and West Germany. First, the effects of the Industrial Revolution on job qualifications, apprenticeship, and secondary education were noted. Next, postwar changes and trends…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Chemical Industry, Clerical Occupations, Comparative Education
Chome, Gesa, Ed. – CEDEFOP Flash, 1993
Some 180 experts from 10 European countries met at the University of Trier (Germany) to exchange information about youth assistance projects and hear views about the extent of unemployment among disadvantaged youth and development of innovative solutions. "The Failure of Young People to Cope with Life When Unemployed" (Bohnisch) showed…
Descriptors: Career Education, Demonstration Programs, Developed Nations, Disadvantaged
Reubens, Beatrice G. – 1979
Examining the transition from school to work in Europe, this speech focuses on a comparison of initial occupational preparation for young people in France, Germany, and Great Britain. The desired competencies in new entrants to the labor market are listed in four categories: basic cognitive skills; personal qualities and work attitudes;…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Communication Skills, Comparative Education, Educational Development
Ministry of Labour, London (England). Central Training Council. – 1966
A survey was made of training programs for younger office employees in Great Britian and other European countries; employees were categorized as secretaries, typists, machine operators, cashiers, clerks, and professional trainees. In Britain, just over 8% of the under-21 age group were receiving formal training; about 7% were getting day release;…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Business Responsibility, Clerical Occupations, Comparative Analysis
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