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Thake, Anne Marie – Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning, 2021
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to evaluate short-term, unpaid placements offered to students reading for a degree in public policy. They provide added value to their tertiary education experience. Elective placements were offered in 2012 and became a mandatory requirement for students reading for a three-year bachelor of commerce degree in…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Public Policy, Student Placement, Undergraduate Study
Gilbride, Dennis; Stensrud, Robert; Bruinekool, Matt – Rehabilitation Research, Policy, and Education, 2018
Background: Over the past 25 years, research has demonstrated the value of the demand-side placement model in increasing employment opportunities for people with disabilities. Objective: The demand-side model is focused on working with businesses (the demand-side) to create systemic change within companies to pull-in consumers, in contrast to a…
Descriptors: Job Placement, Disabilities, Models, Employment Opportunities
Compulsory Work-Integrated Learning: A Solution for Equity Degree Propositioning and Future Proofing
Bracken, Liz; Patton, Narelle; Lindsay, Euan – International Journal of Work-Integrated Learning, 2022
Work-integrated learning (WIL) placement is increasingly being prioritized in university course curricula as industry, students and government seek improved employability skills, work-ready graduates and stronger graduate employability outcomes. For disciplines such as business, without industry accreditation mandating WIL placement experiences…
Descriptors: Work Experience Programs, Required Courses, Job Placement, Job Skills
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
European University Association, 2021
The 2020 EUA Learning & Teaching Thematic Peer Group on "Meeting skills and employability demands" explored how universities can ensure that their study programmes reflect the dynamic demands of society and the labour market, and address skills demands throughout the student experience. In this paper, employability is considered as…
Descriptors: Job Skills, Employment Potential, Universities, Labor Market
Na Zhou; Dineke E. H. Tigelaar; Wilfried Admiraal – Educational Studies, 2024
Work placement is defined as a continuing professional development programme aiming at improving vocational teachers' understanding of industry working life through authentic experience. It has been a mandatory programme for all vocational teachers in China since 2016. In this study, we explore the impact of work placement on vocational teachers'…
Descriptors: Job Placement, Teacher Placement, Faculty Development, Secondary School Teachers
Andrew, Lesley – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2020
Ensuring equitable work-integrated learning (WIL) opportunities for international students can be problematic. This position paper explores this challenge within the context of the Master of Public Health course (MPH) in Australian universities. The availability and accessibility of placement and non-placement WIL for international students are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Work Experience Programs, College Students, Foreign Students
Takeshita, Hiroshi; Ohtani, Tetsuhiro – Psychology of Education Review, 2020
Purpose: In Japan, high school students who seek employment can apply to only one company at a time at the school's recommendation, and cannot decline a job offer. This shortens the time available for helping students' career selection process, resulting in problems related to effective support and students' consent. Nonetheless, the actual…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Student Employment, Decision Making
Hoel, Linda; Christensen, Erik – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2020
Purpose: Although workplace learning is an important part of professional learning, little is known about the unethical aspects of workplace learning. This study aims to describe students' learning experiences from in-field training in the police. This paper aims to examine how workplace learning can challenge proper ethical professional…
Descriptors: On the Job Training, Police Education, Ethics, Learning Experience
McDonald, Paula – Journal of Education and Work, 2020
Participation in open market internships by higher education students and graduates has significantly expanded. This has created growing opportunities for intermediaries or 'brokers' to organise and charge fees for placing individuals in organisations, either in their home country or abroad. Despite being voluntary, open market internships may be…
Descriptors: College Students, College Graduates, Internship Programs, Job Placement
Ramgoolam-Atchiamith, Anusha; Khan, Aila; Rodrigues, Cristina; Wardle, Karina Michelle – Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning, 2022
Purpose: Work-integrated learning (WIL) is an integral part of hospitality curriculums in Australia. Experiencing stress during WIL is expected, as students try to balance work and other responsibilities. Previous studies have usually examined the negative impact of stress on individuals. By referring to relevant theories, this paper argues the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Hospitality Occupations, Postsecondary Education, College Students
Ábrahám, Árpád; Dengler, Benedikt; Ziesemer, Vinzenz – Journal of Economic Education, 2022
Stock, Finegan, and Siegfried establish that completion times in U.S. economics PhD programs have been on the rise, with the median steadily approaching six years. Do European programs experience the same trend? The authors of this article present new hand-collected data on job market candidates from the top European PhD programs in economics. In…
Descriptors: Job Placement, Doctoral Degrees, Time to Degree, Doctoral Programs
Marcus, Jon – Education Next, 2019
This century has been a dramatic era for the for-profit higher-education industry. Enrollment at for-profit schools more than quadrupled between 2000 and 2010, but the sector was bruised and battered during years of clashes with the Obama administration, which sought to rein in abuses such as inflating job-placement rates and using high-pressure…
Descriptors: Proprietary Schools, Colleges, Educational Innovation, Federal Regulation
Jacobs, Brittany L.; Augustin, Jacob; Park, Jiyoung – College Student Journal, 2018
The examination of doctoral programs in sport management is important from both the perspective of the doctoral student and the larger field of academia. In considering sport management doctoral programs, it is essential to explore the characteristics of the program, programmatic focus and the placement of alumni. As such, surveys were sent to all…
Descriptors: Athletics, Job Placement, Doctoral Programs, Graduate Students
Universities UK, 2023
Are some graduates going on to do non-graduate jobs? Evidence collected from interviews with universities careers services shows many have in fact seen an improvement in graduate employment -- specifically, in more graduates entering 'high skilled professions' and unemployment rates going down. Many universities have implemented a mandatory work…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, College Graduates, Employment Services