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Tran, Le Huu Nghia – Journal of Education and Work, 2017
This article reports a study that investigated student engagement and inhibitors of their engagement with developing employability skills via extra-curricular activities in Vietnamese universities. Content analysis of 18 interviews with students and statistical analysis of 423 students' responses to a paper-based survey showed that despite a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learner Engagement, Employment Qualifications, Extracurricular Activities
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Herman, Clem – Journal of Education and Work, 2015
This paper adds to current discourses around employability by arguing for an explicit recognition of gender, in particular in relation to women's employment in male-dominated sectors such as science, engineering and technology. This is not limited to young first-time graduates but continues and evolves throughout the life course. Mature women…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Females, Nontraditional Students
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Young, Michael – Journal of Education and Work, 2011
The one-year research project on the implementation of NQFs in developing countries was launched by the ILO 2009 in collaboration with the ETF. This article reviews some of the educational issues that arose from the project. The findings of the case studies raise issues that are important for how future research and policy on NQFs is taken…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Program Implementation, Performance Factors, Research Projects
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Tau, Daniel; Modesto, Stanslaus T. – Journal of Education and Work, 2011
A growing number of countries are introducing qualification frameworks (QFs) following a common definition of outcomes, level descriptors, and a set of occupational or knowledge fields. Botswana has been no exception to this trend. The passing of the Vocational Training Act (1998) led to the creation of the Botswana National Vocational…
Descriptors: Evidence, Qualifications, Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries
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Allais, Stephanie M. – Journal of Education and Work, 2011
This article provides some of the key findings of a comparative study commissioned by the International Labour Organization (ILO), which attempted to understand more about the impact and implementation of national qualifications frameworks (NQFs). Sixteen case studies were produced, on qualifications frameworks in Australia; Bangladesh; Botswana;…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Alignment (Education), Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis
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Keating, Jack – Journal of Education and Work, 2011
This article discusses the Malaysian Qualifications Framework (MQF). An observation about the MQF is that in the particular context of developments in Malaysian education and training and its economic and social context, all roads have led to standards and quality assurance. This is the view expressed by the Malaysian Qualifications Agency (MQA)…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Quality Control, Qualifications, Educational Quality