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Carlebach, Ezri; Branco, Eduarda Castel; Deij, Arjen; de Jong, Mirjam; van Uden, Jolien – European Training Foundation, 2019
The world is undergoing a major transformation that requires new skills and qualifications, new ways for people to know about skills and qualifications, and new ways to acquire skills and qualifications. This toolkit is about skills and qualifications, and the benefits they provide for people in a changing environment. It focuses specifically on…
Descriptors: Job Skills, Employment Qualifications, Job Training, Foreign Countries
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Winch, Christopher – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2013
Sound initial vocational education is an important precondition for subsequent episodes of vocational education or professional development. The presence of strong occupational identities and labour markets is argued to be a precondition for high-quality initial vocational education and training (IVET) and continuing vocational education and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Continuing Education, Occupational Mobility
OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2011
The OECD Secretariat, at the invitation of the AHELO Group of National Experts, contracted the Tuning Association to undertake initial development work on learning outcomes to be used for valid and reliable assessments of students from diverse institutions and countries. The two disciplines selected for the AEHLO Feasibility Study are engineering…
Descriptors: Expertise, Occupations, Feasibility Studies, Civil Engineering
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Roberts, Gerrylynn K.; Simmons, Anna E. – Annals of Science, 2009
This paper investigates the extent of overseas migration by British chemists over the period 1887-1971. Notwithstanding the "brain drain" alarms of the 1960s, overseas employment was characteristic of some 19% of British chemists' careers throughout our period, though its nature changed considerably. Our study examines the overseas…
Descriptors: Occupational Mobility, Overseas Employment, Open Universities, Foreign Countries
Elias, Peter; McKnight, Abigail; Kinshott, Graham – 1999
This paper considers issues relating to the measurement of skill for national statistical purposes. It draws upon the work program and research underlying the revision of the national occupational classification for the United Kingdom (UK), SOC90 (Standard Occupational Classification introduced in 1990). The report's introduction states the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Guidance, Classification, Developed Nations
Rose, Michael – 1999
Data from the Work History and Attitudes survey of the Social Change and Economic Life research initiative (SCELI) enquiry of 1986-1989 and the first wave of the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) were analyzed to determine their continuity and comparability with regard to employee attitudes in general and job satisfaction and work centrality…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Comparative Analysis, Data Analysis, Data Collection