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Ferrández-Berrueco, Reina; Sánchez-Tarazaga, Lucía – Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning, 2021
Purpose: The aim of this paper is to report the motivations and perceived benefits of companies that collaborate with universities by offering student work-placement positions. Design/methodology/approach: The study follows a mixed methodology based on (1) a literature review on the topic, (2) a case study survey including companies that…
Descriptors: School Business Relationship, Partnerships in Education, College Students, Job Placement
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Simón, Hipólito; Casado Díaz, José Manuel; Castejón Costa, Juan Luis – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2017
Introduction: The research has two objectives--to characterise college students who combine work and studies, and their jobs, on one hand; and to analyse the effect of work on various measures of academic performance, on the other. Method: The study is developed using individual information derived from a survey (N = 464) and from university…
Descriptors: Student Employment, Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries, College Students
Quintini, Glenda – OECD Publishing, 2015
The combination of work and study has been hailed as crucial to ensure that youth develop the skills required on the labour market so that transitions from school to work are shorter and smoother. This paper fills an important gap in availability of internationally-comparable data. Using the 2012 Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC), it draws a…
Descriptors: Student Employment, Vocational Education, Apprenticeships, Education Work Relationship