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Robin Busse; David Glauser; Katja Scharenberg – Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2025
Research has consistently revealed that adolescents with a migration background are more likely to drop out from vocational education and training (VET) at the upper-secondary level than their native peers. While recent research has provided rich empirical evidence of mechanisms leading to dropouts from VET, little is known about such mechanisms…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Youth, Migrants, Migrant Education
Learning and Work Institute, 2019
The Commission on Education and Employment Opportunities for Young People (Youth Commission) aims to find ways to improve education and employment opportunities for England's 16-24-year olds. The Commission's first report (see ED604277) identified five key challenges: (1) Better supporting 700,000 young people not in education, employment or…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Employment Opportunities, Educational Opportunities, Youth Opportunities
Toporkova, Olga; Glebova, Ekaterina; Vysotskaia, Inna V.; Tikhaeva, Victoria V. – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
Background/Objectives: The main objective of the article is to study, analyze and organize the modern German experience in the sphere of social pedagogical and educational work with socially unprotected adults, including youth and the elderly. The retrospective analysis threw light on the background of work with socially unprotected adults in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intergenerational Programs, Adults, Social Work
Statham, June – Institute of Education - London, 2013
This research examines public care and support services for young people at risk of entering care in other European countries and the lessons that can be learnt for England's care system.
Descriptors: At Risk Students, Youth Programs, Youth Opportunities, Comparative Education
Hirche, Walter – Journal of Education for Sustainable Development, 2012
Youth unemployment is a huge challenge for sustainable development in our societies. Statistics offer an alarming picture of the involvement of youth in the labour markets on a global scale. Germany, due to a strong tradition in vocational education and training deeply rooted in its culture, has very low rates of youth unemployment. The so-called…
Descriptors: Youth Employment, Holistic Approach, Foreign Countries, Sustainable Development
Goering, Elizabeth M. – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2013
In recent years, citizenship, particularly what it means to be an engaged and active citizen, has received considerable attention from researchers and theorists in the field of education. This burgeoning interest is not surprising, given that in most societies educational institutions have been accorded primary responsibility for educating young…
Descriptors: Definitions, Adolescent Attitudes, Citizen Participation, Citizenship Responsibility
Eberly, Donald J., Ed. – 1992
This report summarizes the national service programs and proposals discussed at the first global conference on national service held in June of 1992. Current programs include those in France and Germany where civilian service may be performed as an alternative to mandatory military service. In Nigeria university graduates perform a year of…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Community Programs, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Muller, Burkhard – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2006
This Paper argues that the learning opportunities needed by pre-school children and adolescents beyond school have much in common: both confront what the pioneer of youth work Josephine Brew (1943) named the key problem of the "whole man": combining "social fellowship, recreation and education in one organisation". For both…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Early Childhood Education, Participant Observation, Adolescents
Harslof, Ivan – Journal of Youth Studies, 2005
Young unemployed persons are a prioritised group in active labour market programmes. Such programmes can be regarded as "integrative", facilitating integration into the labour market for young people in accordance with their own preferences. However, such programmes can also be regarded as "defensive", discouraging young…
Descriptors: Unemployment, Labor Market, Foreign Countries, Youth
Lehmann, Wolfgang – Journal of Youth Studies, 2004
Despite late modernity and risk society discourses about the decreasing influence of structural factors on educational and occupational attainment, it has also been argued that socio-economic background and gender continue to influence individuals' school-work transitions. Comparing youth apprentices and academic high school students in Canada and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Working Class, Social Structure, Socioeconomic Background