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Ahmad, Syed Zamberi; Buchanan, F. Robert; Ahmad, Norita – International Journal of Educational Management, 2016
Purpose: Motivations for study abroad in tourism and hospitality were examined as to the influence of a variety of personal criteria in the individual decision process of adult learners to select a host country and host institution of study. The paper aims to discuss this issue. Design/methodology/approach: Push-pull factors (Mazzarol and Soutar,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Student Motivation, Study Abroad
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Rots, Isabel; Aelterman, Antonia; Devos, Geert – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2014
In an era of recurring teacher shortages, Flanders struggles with a considerable proportion of teacher education graduates who do not enter the teaching profession. This study identifies the predictors of teacher education graduates' choice on job entry (teaching profession or not). A prospective research design with two data collection phases is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teacher Education, Career Choice, Predictor Variables
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Brown, Kevin – CEA Forum, 2009
To say that English undergraduates struggle with their post-graduate identities is to understate the obvious. Almost every article or book that discusses career paths or the job market for graduates with a degree in English relates that students do not know what to do with an undergraduate degree, save for teaching or graduate studies in English.…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Majors (Students), English, College Graduates
Thomas B. Fordham Institute, 2009
The Thomas B. Fordham Institute became interested in Ohio's human-talent issues via its work to improve public education. Fordham wanted answers to two related questions: what would it take to excite, attract, and retain more top college students to work in Ohio, and what else would it take to draw them into the field of education? To seek…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Brain Drain, College Students, Student Attitudes
Faulkner, Paula E.; Baggett, Connie D.; Bowen, Cathy F.; Bowen, Blannie E. – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2009
Ethnic minority students traditionally pursue degrees and careers in the food and agricultural sciences at rates lower than their non-minority counterparts. To help improve upon this situation, the Food and Agricultural Sciences Institute (FASI) was created to expose academically talented high school students to opportunities within the food and…
Descriptors: Careers, Agricultural Education, Minority Groups, Laboratory Experiments
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Mikheev, P. A. – Russian Education and Society, 2006
What kind of impact have the last decade's radical changes in types of economic systems, property ownership, and opportunities for employment had on the rural youth of Russia? This paper examines this topic by presenting a survey of upper-grade students in rural schools in a region of Saratov Oblast in 1994, 1997, and 2004, using the same…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Youth, Social Values, Employment Opportunities