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Post-PhD Trajectories: Desperately Seeking Careers?
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McAlpine, Lynn – Higher Education Review, 2014
The doctorate has traditionally been perceived as preparation for an academic career (teaching and research). However, the evidence suggests that this assumption no longer holds true since internationally more than half of all PhD graduates leave the higher education sector. Though there has been considerable research examining the ways in which…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, College Graduates, Education Work Relationship, Career Development
A Study of Current Male Educational Leaders, Their Careers and Next Steps
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Chard, Rachel – Management in Education, 2013
In educational leadership there appears to be a disproportionately low number of female head teachers in comparison to the number in teaching. This article explores whether embedded links between leadership and masculinity still exist, and reports on the reasons given by a sample of three male leaders as to why they pursued careers in educational…
Descriptors: Males, Educational Administration, Masculinity, Leadership
Improving the Process of Career Decision Making: An Action Research Approach
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Greenbank, Paul – Education & Training, 2011
Purpose: This study adopts an action research approach with the aim of improving the process of career decision making among undergraduates in a business school at a "new" university in the UK. Design/methodology/approach: The study utilised unfreezing techniques, multiple case studies in conjunction with the principle of analogical…
Descriptors: Evidence, Action Research, Career Choice, Decision Making
Educational Decision-Making: Rationality and the Impact of Time
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Adshead, Lesley; Jamieson, Anne – Studies in the Education of Adults, 2008
This paper explores educational decision-making within a life course perspective. It draws on interviews carried out with 34 people, ages 30-81, as part of a longitudinal study into educational experiences of part-time mature students in continuing education at a London university. It considers to what extent their decisions about study are…
Descriptors: Continuing Education, Young Adults, Educational Experience, Decision Making
Where Have All the Flowers Gone? An Investigation into the Retention of Religious Education Teachers
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Dadley, E. M.; Edwards, B. – British Journal of Religious Education, 2007
This article reports on an investigation into the retention of secondary religious education teachers trained at one institution over a ten-year period. The initial hypothesis was that many of these teachers would no longer be teaching, or would no longer be teaching religious education. However, the authors found that a high percentage of…
Descriptors: Investigations, Religious Education, Teacher Persistence, Secondary School Teachers
Invisibility, Perceptions and Image: Mapping the Career Choice Landscape.
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Foskett, Nicholas H.; Hemsley-Brown, Jane – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 1999
A study of British students in Years 6, 10, and 12 found that they base their understanding of careers and work on images from personal experience, adults, and the media. Career decisions are based on pragmatic, opportunistic factors, not well matched with supply and demand. A divergent, holistic approach to guidance should challenge their…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Career Choice, College Choice, Decision Making