Increasingly those working in higher education are tasked with targeting their teaching approaches and techniques to improve the "employability" of graduates. However, this approach is promoted with little recognition that enhanced employability does not guarantee employment outcomes or the tensions inherent in pursuing this agenda. The…

Getting a good and relevant education is difficult enough to achieve within a context where social and economic needs are constantly unsettled by political policy. The public funding of the education sector has become a contested arena irrespective of a government's ideology. Recent graduates from various disciplines from Town Planning to…

Overeducation and underemployment are of increasing national concern. Recent research estimates that 48% of workers are overeducated for their positions. The wage penalty for overeducation varies significantly across majors by gender. Using the American Community Survey (Ruggles et al., 2010), the authors examine the extent of overeducation among…

The idea of a skills gap suggests that employers have jobs available but cannot find skilled applicants because higher education is poorly aligned with workforce needs. This idea is shaping higher education and workforce development policy at the national and state levels, yet limited research exists on the experiences of employers and educators…

This report covers the second annual conference at which educators and members of the industrial world met to discuss needs, programs, new developments, and other matters on which continuing engineering studies (CES) should be based. The first address describes problems that often beset professionals in continuing education and suggests the…

Discusses a study to obtain data upon which to direct the future development of the secretarial arts program, to describe the secretarial arts graduate in terms of employment status and advancement opportunities, and to maintain contact with graduates. (JOW)

A cross-sectional study of 842 faculty who served as department heads between 1965-92 was compared with 170 in a panel study for whom earnings were estimated using a personal effects model. The average chair received a 12% wage premium for administrative service. Skill depreciation was most severe and wage growth most adversely affected in the…

Retraining of employed technical professionals as an alternative to termination is being used by a small but growing number of firms. Case studies of involuntary and voluntary retraining generated guidelines for cost-effective programs: management support, candidate screening, career counseling, and realistic job previews. (SK)

Several perceptions of higher continuing education/university extension in 1960 are reflected in the writings of Malcolm Knowles, Renee and William Petersen and A. A. Liveright. Social idealism, technological development, and increased occupational obsolescence were areas of change from 1960-75. (EA)

The importance of the link between education and work is examined along with current trends, including employment opportunities, the evolving structure of the American economy, and productivity. The positive, direct benefits apparent between work and education are that sound schooling benefits the individual, the employer, and the nation's…

Analyzes the sex ratio, national origins, age distribution, and qualification levels of Australian universities' education faculties; forecasts the effects of these universities' lack of growth, particularly on the quality of faculty members' work and on the relevance of their specialties. (Author/MCG)

Contains the text of a speech presented at one of eight 2-day regional forums which focuses on significant technological trends and identification of implications for education resulting from these trends and societal change. (Editor/SB)

Science and technology have exerted a major influence on higher education/continuing education from 1960-75, as evidenced by more part-time students, increased awareness of continuing education opportunities, personal concern for obsolescence and lack of information, and the resulting management changes to cope with changing situations. (Author/EA)

The author discusses occupational obsolescence from 1960-75 by examining the concept itself, sources of occupational obsolescence, and continuing education as a central strategy for dealing with human obsolescence. (EA)

This document reports the results of work in identifying promising approaches to the provision of technological update to vocational/technical teachers and barriers as well as facilitators to the use of those approaches. (Technological update refers to the technical, as opposed to pedagogical, knowledge and skills needed by vocational teachers to…