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Kelly K. Miller; Trina Jorre de St Jorre – Teaching in Higher Education, 2024
To advance the employability agenda in higher education, we need new ideas for embedding career skills into university curricula and novel tools for articulating the capabilities of learners. Situated in the discipline of environmental science, the aim of this study was to examine employer perceptions of the skills needed for a career in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Microcredentials, Higher Education, Education Work Relationship
Byrne, Christopher – Studies in Higher Education, 2022
Governments have become increasingly concerned with improving the employability of university graduates in recent years, but most existing studies of what graduate employers look for are limited by their reliance on self-reported preferences. This study, which focuses on the UK context, aims to develop our knowledge of the determinants of…
Descriptors: Employment Potential, College Graduates, Student Characteristics, Academic Achievement
Larkin, Douglas B.; Patzelt, Suzanne Poole; Ahmed, Khadija M.; Carletta, Liz; Gaynor, Catherine R. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2022
This study uses state-level staffing data to analyze the five-year career trajectories of all 231 first-year secondary science teachers in New Jersey who began teaching during the 2010-2011 school year. The person-position framework for studying teacher retention is introduced in this analysis, and the authors present a case for the importance of…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Science Teachers, Secondary Education, Teacher Persistence
Arquero, Jose Luis; Fernandez-Polvillo, Carmen; Hassall, Trevor – Education & Training, 2022
Purpose: Despite the institutional calls to include the development of non-technical skills as objectives in accounting curriculum and the attempts to do so, a gap between the level of skills exhibited by graduates and those needed to succeed as a professional is still perceived. One of the possible causes could be students' overconfidence,…
Descriptors: Soft Skills, Self Esteem, Accounting, Business Administration Education
Lopes, Ana Sofia; Rebelo, Isabel; Santos, Rui; Costa, Rogério; Ferreira, Vitor – Cogent Education, 2023
The proper alignment between supply of Vocational Education and Training (VET) and labour market demand is critical to successfully achieve VET's main benefits, such as reduction of academic dropout rates, unemployment reduction and economic growth. This article presents the study carried out in Leiria region (Portugal) to define VET areas…
Descriptors: Supply and Demand, Labor Market, Vocational Education, Job Skills
Liu, Christy Fung-Ming – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2023
Translator professionalism is seldom studied in an empirical way in Asia, not to mention the similarities and differences in the perception of the topic as exhibited by practitioners versus clients. The present study examines translator professionalism as a multidimensional term covering practitioners' language competency, translation skills,…
Descriptors: Translation, Professionalism, Job Skills, Language Proficiency
Schneider, Sebastian – International Journal of Training and Development, 2023
The paper examines the attractiveness of graduates from Indian Polytechnics (PTs). The attractiveness is examined from the perspective of actors who have a demand for the graduates, namely companies and engineering colleges. To understand the reasons for their assessment of attractiveness, this study uses the concept of institutional logics (ILs)…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Aesthetics, Employers, Employer Attitudes
Catedral, Lydia; Djuraeva, Madina – Applied Linguistics, 2023
In this paper, we argue that critical applied linguists must work towards the materially transformative, dialogic inclusion of marginalized voices in order to create more just social relations. We show how a spatiotemporal theorization of voice as materially situated and discursively imaginative can enable a more holistic approach to including…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Applied Linguistics, Holistic Approach, Foreign Countries
Tanacha Gaines – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The applied dissertation was designed to understand the perceptions of private-sector employers regarding the selection of candidates from distance-only higher education institutions. Guided by signaling theory as a framework, the study explored the mismatch between institutional, student, and employer expectations of skills and readiness for the…
Descriptors: Employer Attitudes, Private Sector, Employment Potential, Distance Education
Almesad, Talal Ibrahim – International Journal of Higher Education, 2021
The current study aimed at determining the suitability level for the faculties and institutes graduates of the Public Authority for Applied Education and Training and the requirements of the labor market in the State of Kuwait from the employers' perspective in the public and private sectors. The study sample consisted of (8102) employers. A…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Labor Market, Employer Attitudes, Public Sector
Samuel Cornelius Nyarko – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Geoscience employers have increasingly called for student competency in three sets of skills -- technical, field and soft skills. One major soft skill identified by employers is teamwork, which is critical in laboratory and field-based activities. At the same time, educators seek to inculcate in students a stronger focus on the development of…
Descriptors: Earth Science, Teamwork, Job Skills, Soft Skills
Sagal Ahmed; Lara Grollo; Daniel Czech – Journal of Teaching and Learning for Graduate Employability, 2024
Growing concerns about the employability of science graduates has led most Australian higher education providers to incorporate work-integrated learning (WIL) into their science curricula. Project-based learning (PjBL) is a student-centred approach to learning that focuses on the application of discipline specific skills and knowledge in…
Descriptors: Industry, Active Learning, Student Projects, Work Experience Programs
Bryan Phillip Donaldson – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to explore how hiring managers describe the importance of education and industry related/real-world experience as criteria in hiring recent business graduates for the Consumer Products Goods industry in the United States. The theoretical foundations for the study were the CareerEDGE Model, and…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Business Administration Education, Employment Potential, Employment Qualifications
Allan Muganga; Oluwasegun Adesola Oladipo; Michael Agyemang Adarkwah – Discover Education, 2024
Globally, the trend toward privatizing higher education has been accelerating, driven by economic and policy shifts. Uganda has aligned with this movement, becoming one of the African countries implementing privatization to enhance accessibility and efficiency in its universities. However, the benefits and challenges of higher education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Privatization, Higher Education, Private Colleges
Cecilia Ka Yuk Chan; Theresa Kwong; Yui Bun Chan; Albert Wing Yin Ko; Samson Shu-Ki Tse – Education & Training, 2024
Purpose: This research aims to understand employers' views and preferences on the assessment of holistic competencies (HCs) in graduates, a topic with existing gaps in literature. With the disparities between higher education practices and employer expectations concerning HC assessment, the study focuses on what employers wish to see in graduates'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Employers, Holistic Evaluation, Competence