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Jeevanath Devkota; Devid Kumar Basyal – International Education Studies, 2024
The deficiency in providing quality education is a significant challenge across many developing nations. This study examines the connection between the education system and the level of socioeconomic issues in the context of Nepal. The main argument is that Nepal's gender-related issues, the training gap among its populace concerning…
Descriptors: Intervention, Social Change, Economic Development, Foreign Countries
Blanchard, Weedens E. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this research case study was to examine a post-secondary pilot program that provides education to select New York City homeless adults at a private university. In this study, the researcher examined how the Academy program assists homeless and disadvantaged adults to obtain post-graduate employment opportunities through academic…
Descriptors: Homeless People, Adults, Private Colleges, Economically Disadvantaged
Paccagnella, Marco – OECD Publishing, 2016
This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of the link between age and proficiency in information-processing skills, based on information drawn from the Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC). The data reveal significant age-related differences in proficiencies, strongly suggesting that proficiency tends to "naturally" decline with age. Age…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Surveys, Adults, Age Differences
Keep, Ewart; James, Susan – Journal of Education Policy, 2012
A focus of Government policy has been the need to ensure that those at the lower end of the labour market invest in their human capital through re-engaging with learning, which has been assumed to enable progress into better-paid employment. This article explores the problems created by "bad jobs" and the evidence for the existence of a…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Labor Market, Public Policy, Vocational Education