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Direct linkCelestin Mayombe – Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning, 2024
Purpose: There is a global concern about the effectiveness of vocational education and training (VET) programmes in developing job-related skills and competencies for real-world environments for disadvantaged and unemployed youths. Experiential learning (EL) is a major component of VET programmes. This article aims to examine the effects of…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Job Skills, Experiential Learning, Foreign Countries
Download full textBatholmeus, Petrina; Pop, Carver – International Journal of Work-Integrated Learning, 2019
The demand for relevant skills for the labor market constitutes one of the fundamental challenges facing the post-school system in South Africa. The South African government has therefore proposed a policy on professional development teacher education programs for Technical and Vocational Education and Training and the South African Department of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Experiential Learning, Workplace Learning, Job Skills
Aderibigbe, Olugbenga Adeniyi Olumuyiwa; Mosia, Moeketsi Simon – Perspectives in Education, 2019
The Constitution for the Republic of South Africa (Act 108 of 1996) embraces language as a basic human right and multilingualism as a national resource. One latest foreign language to be given recognition by the Department of Basic Education (DBE) in 2015 is Mandarin, a Chinese language, for incremental implementation as a non-official optional…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Educational Opportunities, Career Readiness, Experiential Learning
Makhathini, Thobeka Pearl – Perspectives in Education, 2016
Research on student-learning outcomes indicates that university graduates do not possess relevant skills required by the industry such as leadership, emotional intelligence, problem solving, communication, decision-making skills and the ability to function in a multicultural environment. Currently, engineering graduates are expected to perform…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, College Graduates, Workplace Learning
Mutereko, Sybert; Wedekind, Volker – Journal of Education and Work, 2016
Work-integrated learning (WIL) has been identified as a way of equipping graduates with attributes that make them work-ready. Many higher education institutions (HEIs) require their students to go through a compulsory work place learning form (WPL) of WIL. The complications of WPL can affect HEIs' student throughput. To address this challenge, a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Work Experience Programs, Workplace Learning, Career Readiness
Muller, Normann; Behringer, Friederike – OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2012
This paper provides an overview of the available information concerning selected policy instruments intended to promote employer-provided training, including the stated rationale and objectives, the target groups and operational design as well as a at a summary of the evaluative evidence regarding their operation. The analysis focuses on policy…
Descriptors: Incentives, Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Grants
