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Best Practice in the Design and Delivery of Pre-Apprenticeship Programmes: Final Report
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Learning and Work Institute, 2019
This report explores best practice in the design and delivery of pre-apprenticeship programmes across Europe. For the purposes of this project, pre-apprenticeship programmes are defined as programmes targeted at young people aged 16-24, where at least one of the stated aims is progression to an apprenticeship. Across Europe, some programmes are…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Evidence Based Practice, Instructional Design, Apprenticeships
The Global Teaching Profession: How Treating Teachers as Knowledge Workers Improves the Esteem of the Teaching Profession
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Price, Heather E.; Weatherby, Kristen – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2018
To better understand the status of the teaching profession, we present a conceptual framework outlining the 4 domains of knowledge-worker professionals: professional benchmarks, professional discretion, room for promotion, and workplace conditions and use the TALIS 2013 survey data to show that these domains exist globally and vary within…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Employees, Professional Services, Knowledge Management
Modernisation of Higher Education in Europe: Academic Staff--2017. Eurydice Report
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Crosier, David; Birch, Peter; Davydovskaia, Olga; Kocanova, Daniela; Parveva, Teodora – Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency, European Commission, 2017
This report aims to provide insight into the realities faced by higher education academic staff at a time of fast-moving change and increasing societal demand. Fluctuating student numbers, new funding and steering mechanisms are among the features of today's European higher education landscape, but not enough is known about how academic staff are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Development, Educational Change, Higher Education
Education Markets, the New Politics of Recognition and the Increasing Fatalism towards Inequality
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Power, Sally; Frandji, Daniel – Journal of Education Policy, 2010
This paper explores the complex ways in which the marketisation of education and the associated publication of performance data have contributed to the emergence of a new politics of recognition which has paradoxically served further to naturalise educational inequalities. Of all the reforms associated with subjecting education to market forces,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Recruitment, Supply and Demand, Educational Change
Competitive Arenas and Schools' Logics of Action: A European Comparison
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van Zanten, Agnes – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2009
This article analyses the impact of competitive arenas on schools' logics of action in six local European contexts (London, Paris, Lille, Charleroi, Budapest and Lisbon). It first examines how competitive processes affect different schools' activities (recruitment, provision of options, promotion, tracking, provision for children with special…
Descriptors: Governance, Special Needs Students, Comparative Education, Foreign Countries
What Do Employers Want from Education: An Employer Survey of 16-18 Year Olds in the Thames Valley.
Hawe, J. Michael, Comp. – 1990
A survey investigated what employers in the Thames Valley, England, were looking for in their recruitment of young people aged 16-18. Of 600 companies, 37 percent responded. Twenty percent did not recruit at that age level; 76 percent required two advanced ("A") levels and Pass grades. Recruitment of young people with a General…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Developed Nations, Educational Practices, Employer Attitudes