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Djone, Robertus Raga; Suryani, Anne – International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives, 2019
Since Indonesia's transition to democracy in 1998, wealth inequality has increased significantly with a dramatic rise in the wealth of the rich and stagnating income growth among poorer citizens. Similar to many developing countries, the issue of child workers in Indonesia is a critical problem. The "2015 National Labour Force Survey"…
Descriptors: Child Labor, Inclusion, Labor Force, Social Change
Burke, Amy – National Science Foundation, 2019
The science and engineering (S&E) labor force helps to create and advance our scientific and technological knowledge, transform these advances into goods and services, and fuel America's economy, security, and quality of life. This report details several aspects of the U.S. S&E workforce, including growth, demographic makeup, earnings, and…
Descriptors: Labor Force, Technical Occupations, Engineering, Scientists
Corrales-Herrero, Helena; Rodríguez-Prado, Beatriz – Journal of Education and Work, 2016
For some people, a part-time job is merely an intermediate state that serves as a "stepping stone" to further employment and makes labour market integration easier. Yet, part-time work also appears in highly unstable careers. The present research aims to determine the role of part-time employment for young people with non-university…
Descriptors: Part Time Employment, Surveys, Foreign Countries, Role
Ansari, Nighat; Jabeen, Nasira; Moazzam Baig, Amani; Salman, Yaamina – Bulletin of Education and Research, 2016
The resource-based view of the organization conceptualizes diversity as a valuable, scarce and difficult to imitate resource. The phenomenon of diversity, specifically gender diversity, is fast becoming an inevitable reality for the contemporary organizations as an increasing number of female workers are joining the formal work force both in the…
Descriptors: Diversity, Gender Differences, Females, Labor Force
Corcoran, Charles – Journal of Instructional Pedagogies, 2014
The multitude of philosophies that currently exists in workforce education in China makes it difficult to decide on a singular theoretical foundation. Therefore, it seems most prudent to begin with those theories that align with Confucian values as well as include humanistic, pragmatist, behaviorist, and other elements. Such a theoretical base,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Confucianism, Foreign Countries, Humanism
Ashton, Daniel – Journal of Education and Work, 2015
This article examines the career opportunities, challenges and trajectories of creative work. As part of the Creative Trident approach to creative workforce measurements, the embedded mode draws attention to creative work as it is undertaken outside of the creative industries. This article further considers and conceptualises the complex careers…
Descriptors: Employment Opportunities, Career Development, Creative Activities, Occupations
Redford, Morag – Scottish Educational Review, 2017
This paper follows on from the previous bulletin (Redford 2017), which covered the education remit of the Parliament's Education and Skills Committee between September 2016 and January 2017. The following bulletin covers the Education remit of the Education and Skills Committee from January to August 2017.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parliamentary Procedures, Committees, Educational Legislation
Brajkovic, Lucia – Policy Reviews in Higher Education, 2018
The purpose of this study is to examine whether the human capital theory tenets hold in Central and Eastern European countries (CEEC) that transitioned from socialist regimes to a market-based economy. The modeling approach relied on 18 years (1994-2012) of country level data collected from the World Bank, in order to explore whether the increase…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Social Change, Social Systems, Higher Education
Data Quality Campaign, 2018
High-quality data governance, a body or process designed to make decisions about how state education data is linked, used, accessed, and protected, is key to establishing a culture of effective data use in states. The three data governance bodies featured in this paper--the Kentucky Center for Education and Workforce Statistics (KCEWS), the…
Descriptors: Data Use, Information Management, Elementary Secondary Education, Postsecondary Education
Leibnitz, Gretalyn; Gillian-Daniel, Donald L.; Greenler, Robin M.; Campbell-Montalvo, Rebecca; Metcalf, Heather; Segarra, Verónica A.; Peters, Jan W.; Patton, Shannon; Lucy-Putwen, Andrea; Sims, Ershela L. – Wisconsin Center for Education Research, 2021
Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) professional societies (ProS) are uniquely positioned to foster national-level diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) reform. ProS serve broad memberships, define disciplinary norms and culture, and inform accrediting bodies, thus providing "excellent leverage with which to design and…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Professional Associations, Inclusion, Diversity
Stevenson, Clinton D. – Journal of Food Science Education, 2016
There is a shortage of qualified food scientists in the workforce that has adverse consequences for the quality and safety of our food supply. The Institute of Food Technologists and other institutions have initiated and continue to initiate outreach programs; however, an analysis of the effectiveness of these efforts has not yet come to fruition.…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Food Standards, Scientists, Food
Jones, Charlotte Estella – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2016
Increased attention has been paid to qualifications and training of early childhood education and care staff in order to improve the quality of the service they provide. However, less attention has been paid to the demographics of the workforce itself. Men have consistently made up 2 per cent of the early childhood education and care workforce.…
Descriptors: Males, Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Young Children
Petitjean, Cécile; González-Martínez, Esther – Classroom Discourse, 2015
This article deals with communicative functions of laughter and smiling in the classroom studied using a conversation analytical approach. Analysing a corpus of video-recorded French first-language lessons, we show how students sequentially organise laughter and smiling, and use them to preempt, solve or assess a problematic action. We also focus…
Descriptors: French, Humor, Discourse Analysis, Video Technology
Nuttall, Lee – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2019
This report discusses why Japan continues to struggle with and appears on the surface to be reluctant to embrace the English language as a medium to conduct business and indeed tourism as opposed to their South East Asian neighbours. The topics covered were the historical context of Japan's isolationist policy, Japan's educational system, and…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Maricopa Community Colleges, 2019
The Maricopa County Community College District (MCCCD), established in 1920, has grown to serve 191,073 credit and 24,497 non-credit students. This report assesses the impact of MCCCD as a whole on the county economy and the benefits generated by the colleges for students, taxpayers, and society. The approach is twofold. It begins with an economic…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, School Districts, Expenditures, Income