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How Are Young Graduates Settling into the Labour Market? Education Indicators in Focus. No. 76
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OECD Publishing, 2020
The transition from tertiary education to work involves substantial uncertainty and changes between education programmes, jobs and industries. The current major disruption in the labour market is only going to increase this uncertainty, making it essential for graduates to be prepared for it. Graduates with more dynamic career trajectories are…
Descriptors: College Graduates, College Role, Bachelors Degrees, Masters Degrees
Co-Creation of Value in Higher Education: Using Social Network Marketing in the Recruitment of Students
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Fagerstrom, Asle; Ghinea, Gheorghita – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2013
A social network recruitment campaign was prepared where applicants for information technology bachelor studies at a Norwegian university college were invited to join a Facebook group related to the subject of interest. Each Facebook group was assigned a contact person who received training to facilitate activities and in answering questions from…
Descriptors: Student Recruitment, Social Networks, Foreign Countries, Marketing
History of Vocational Education and Training in Europe: Cases, Concepts and Challenges. Studies in Vocational and Continuing Education. Volume 14
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Berner, Esther, Ed.; Gonon, Philipp, Ed. – Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2016
Understanding today's Vocational Education and Training (VET) systems requires a comprehension of the rise and development, i.e. of the foundations of topical VET. This book provides a comparative view of its development in Europe. The contributions of renowned authors give insight into conceptual questions, cases, and challenges in this field.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Continuing Education, Educational History
"Are PE Teacher Identities Fit for Postmodern Schools or Are They Clinging to Modernist Notions of Professionalism?" A Case Study of Norwegian PE Teacher Students' Emerging Professional Identities
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Dowling, Fiona – Sport, Education and Society, 2011
The concept of the "professional teacher" is highly contestable, and the array of definitions that circulate in teacher education draw on competing theoretical and ideological positions. This paper explores what discourses about professionalism are currently available within Norwegian physical education teacher education (PETE) and, in…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Physical Education, Colleges, Teacher Collaboration
Are British Higher Educational Concerns Different from European Higher Educational Concerns?
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Mangset, Marte – Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences, 2008
British universities are known among the other Bologna countries not to have adjusted fully to the new common three-tier degree structure. Is it the case that British higher educational concerns are different from Continental concerns? A study of recent developments in two British graduate schools of history shows that a three-tier study structure…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Bachelors Degrees
Bachelor Graduates on the Labour Market. A Cross-National Comparison of the Employers' Viewpoint
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Alesi, Bettina – Tertiary Education and Management, 2007
One of the most vehemently discussed questions in the process of restructuring traditional long study programmes according to the Bachelor/Master model is how to develop first cycle curricula and degrees which are a meaningful preparation for a following Master programme as well as for the labour market--as stressed in the Bologna Declaration. It…
Descriptors: Labor Market, College Graduates, Foreign Countries, International Cooperation