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Peter Schlögl; Martin Mayerl – Studies in Continuing Education, 2024
In Austria, binding training objectives are defined for the company-based part of dual training (approximately 70-80 per cent of total training time), but there are scarcely any normative specifications on how these are to be achieved and there is no systematic quality assurance of the practice. The conditions under which vocational training…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Apprenticeships, Training, Vocational Education
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Gabriela M. Höhns – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2024
This article explores change possibilities towards status improvement in vocational education's social construction. Following other researchers, it assumes that higher-status vocational education should give vocational learners perspectives that would accord with their identities and desires, broadly ranging between working in a particular…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Social Status, Foreign Countries, Experiential Learning
Marion Elaine Osborne – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Apprenticeship programs can be the one key solution to preparing young people and adults with the skills to earn a good income without acquiring high long-term student loan debt. A strong apprenticeship program is desirable because of its possible ability to reduce youth unemployment, improve the transformation from school to career by elevating…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Apprenticeships, Trade and Industrial Education, Barriers
Mary Kate Eckhardt – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This research seeks to define and understand the experience of adult learners in the Experiential Learning (EXL) Program at MTSU. It looks at how this EXL program prepares these students for the workforce. This has made the role of EXL programs imperative to help deal with the issue of graduates having the proper competency levels for employment.…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Education, Experiential Learning, Work Experience Programs
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Para-González, L.; Cubillas-Para, C.; Mascaraque-Ramírez, C. – Studies in Higher Education, 2023
Prior research has suggested that Project Based Learning (PBL) may affect students' performance. Nevertheless, there has been a lack of empirical studies that have examined these relationships specially, in Bachelor's Degrees and Master's degrees. This research empirically examines whether PBL improves Own apprenticeship abilities' development as…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Student Projects, Academic Achievement, Graduate Students
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Graf, Lukas; Marques, Marcelo – Journal of Education Policy, 2023
While the literature in skill formation systems has paid considerable attention to inter-variation between types of national skill formation systems and intra-variation among individual types as in the case of collective skill formation systems, less is known about the role of the European Union in establishing a European model of skill formation.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Models, Job Skills, Skill Development
Audrey Karlene Ives – ProQuest LLC, 2022
To lower recidivism, a private rehabilitation and correctional facility (PRCF) in South Florida provides educational and therapeutic programs to inmates; however, the facility reported increased recidivism rates for several successive years. The purpose of this quantitative study was to examine the association between 12 vocational training…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Vocational Education, Recidivism, Correctional Institutions
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Strebel, Alexandra – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2023
Collective skill formation systems thrive if employers' skill needs are reflected in apprenticeship training programmes and firms offer apprenticeship positions. Occupation-level adaptation processes underpin these systems, which offer upper-secondary level vocational education leading to hundreds of occupations. Yet, it is considered challenging…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Apprenticeships, Vocational Education, Job Skills
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Bastges-Lienshöft, Christina; Bach, Rüdiger; Schmidt, Barbara Maria; Schabmann, Alfred – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2023
Criteria lists of academic skills are widely used to assess the work readiness of people who are looking to enter or re-enter the apprenticeship market. These instruments represent a particular hurdle in the path to vocational training for low-skilled would-be trainees. We investigate the validity of one such list used in Germany. As different…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Skills, Job Skills
Catherine Marren; Corin Egglestone; Emily Jones; Sophie Hall – Learning and Work Institute, 2024
The St Martin's Group commissioned Learning and Work Institute to explore the barriers apprenticeship employers face, what employers can do to help apprentices complete their programmes, and ultimately how 'best outcomes' of apprenticeships are defined by different parties across the system. More than 800 apprenticeship employers were surveyed to…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Outcomes of Education, Foreign Countries, Employers
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Rohr-Mentele, Silja; Forster-Heinzer, Sarah – Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2021
Competence development and measurement are of great interest to vocational education and training (VET). Although there are many instruments available for measuring competence in diverse settings, in many cases, the completed steps of validation are neither documented nor made transparent in a comprehensible manner. Understanding what an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Test Validity, Competence
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Keller, Anna; Barabasch, Antje – Journal of Education and Work, 2022
In vocational education and training, coaching can be used to support apprentices' ability to manage their own (further) competence development 'on the job'. This is largely requested among employees at workplaces in internationally competitive sectors of the economy which require of their workforce a great deal of flexibility and learning…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Apprenticeships, Vocational Education, Job Skills
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Friedrich, Anett – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2023
In Germany, about half of the school-leavers -- irrespective of their school-leaving certificate -- start an apprenticeship instead of entering the labour market or university. Firms act as gatekeepers who influence which school-leavers start an apprenticeship. Previous studies have provided important information on the reasons firms train. By…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Apprenticeships, Employees
Kelly O'Donnell – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study aimed to identify if Central Ohio employers closed the middle-skill gap by investing in training. Middle-skill jobs are those that require at least one of the following: a month of On-the-Job training, previous work experience in a related occupation, an apprenticeship, a certification, and some college but not a 4-year degree (Young…
Descriptors: Skill Development, Credentials, Job Skills, On the Job Training
Mable J. Baker – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The United States is currently experiencing a decline of skilled talent in the workforce, with healthcare occupations suffering the most due to a loss in workforce talent and the onset of an aging population. This talent shortage is attributed to a "skills gap." The current case study used qualitative methodology to examine the expansion…
Descriptors: Job Training, Job Skills, Allied Health Occupations, Allied Health Occupations Education
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