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Hunt, Wil; Scott, Peter – Studies in Higher Education, 2020
Secondary analysis of the UK's 2011/12 Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education survey reveals that many existing assumptions about graduate internships are questionable. This article proposes a reliable way of estimating the true extent of internships including those reported as 'voluntary' jobs: hidden internships. In doing so the article…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Graduates, Internship Programs, Employment Potential
Ball, Charlie – Universities UK, 2022
Some say that there are too many people going to university, and others have spent many years lamenting that they cannot find the graduates they need. What is the actual state of the graduate labour market? How many graduates actually are there? How is a graduate job defined, and how many people are there in them? And what does the future hold for…
Descriptors: Misconceptions, College Graduates, Employment Potential, Labor Market
Marcus, Jon – Lumina Foundation, 2020
Intermediaries--also referred to as bridge builders, boundary spanners, conveners, and other names--fill the critical role of connecting all the parties in the system to empower people with the skills required in the labor force. Those parties generally include employers, educators, workers, and prospective workers. Within these categories may…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Labor Force Development, Job Skills, Public Agencies
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Bryson, Colin – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2013
A major proportion of teaching in UK universities is undertaken by a diverse and large group of sessional staff, in common with many HE systems around the world. This articles reviews efforts over the last decade to support and develop such staff and to improve their situation. Improvement in this area is very slow. The article concludes by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Adjunct Faculty, Part Time Faculty
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Belfield, Clive – Economics of Education Review, 2010
The wage and job satisfaction impacts for over-educated workers have been well-documented; yet little attention has been paid to the consequences for firms. In this paper we examine over-education from the perspective of the workplace. Using linked employer-employee data for the United Kingdom, we derive the standard worker-level penalties on…
Descriptors: Wages, Job Satisfaction, Underemployment, Education Work Relationship
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Nabi, Ghulam R. – Education + Training, 2003
In a survey of 203 business graduates, 75 were considered underemployed. The latter group reported significantly fewer opportunities to use their skills, lower intrinsic satisfaction, and less extrinsic career success. (Contains 27 references.) (SK)
Descriptors: College Graduates, Foreign Countries, Job Satisfaction, Job Skills
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Mason, Geoff – Journal of Education and Work, 2002
In Britain, the retailing, computer services, transportation, and communications industries have hired increasing numbers of college graduates, both because of demand for skills and oversupply of graduates. This has contributed to temporary and permanent job upgrading through expansion of tasks and responsibilities in certain jobs. (Contains 14…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Job Development
Grais, Bernard; And Others – 1983
This report, which includes the conclusions of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Working Party on Employment and Unemployment Statistics, analyzes arrangements for compensating workers in the OECD countries who are temporarily laid-off or subject to short-time work. In introductory sections to part 1, the concepts of…
Descriptors: Career Education, Economic Change, Employment Statistics, Foreign Countries
Rosen, Howard, Ed. – 1986
These five papers underscore the fact that the labor market policies of Japan, West Germany, the United Kingdom, France, and Australia are similar in many ways. The papers are "Japanese Labor Market Policies" (Koji Taira), "The Labor Market Policies of West Germany" (Deborah R. Cichon), "The Management of the U.K. Labour…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Developed Nations, Employment Programs, Foreign Countries
Chevalier, Arnaud; Lindley, Joanne – Centre for the Economics of Education (NJ1), 2007
During the early Nineties the proportion of UK graduates doubled over a very short period of time. This paper investigates the effect of the expansion on early labour market attainment, focusing on over-education. We define over-education by combining occupation codes and a self-reported measure for the appropriateness of the match between…
Descriptors: Labor Market, Salary Wage Differentials, Education Work Relationship, Educational Attainment
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Punch, R.; Hyde, M.; Creed, P. A. – American Annals of the Deaf, 2004
Career theorists emphasize the importance of the development of career maturity in adolescents if they are to successfully negotiate the school-to-work transition. Transitions of deaf and hard of hearing adolescents may be especially problematic. The authors examine the implications of current labor market trends for young people, in particular…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Vocational Maturity, Career Development, Deafness
Institute of Personnel and Development, London (England). – 1997
The problem of underemployment in the United Kingdom was examined in two studies. The first study sample, which was selected to be representative from the standpoints of firm size, 8 business types, and the United Kingdom's 14 economic regions, included 474 recruiters. They were interviewed by telephone regarding their recruitment problems. In the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Age Discrimination, Career Choice, Education Work Relationship
Alaluf, Mateo – 1992
This report defines the social exclusion process by examining long-term unemployment and educational deficiencies in Europe and assessing the scope and effectiveness of the steps taken by the governments concerned to deal with the problem. Chapter I looks at education and prolonged unemployment in six countries that reflect the range of European…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Developed Nations, Dislocated Workers, Economic Progress
Herr, Edwin L., Ed.; McFadden, John, Ed. – 1991
This document presents the proceedings of the first international conference sponsored by the American Association for Counseling and Development (AACD) and the British Association for Counselling (BAC). The document contains a foreword by Robert Nejedlo; a preface by Edwin Herr and John McFadden; an overview of the language of counseling in the…
Descriptors: Alcoholism, Battered Women, Blacks, College Environment