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Denise Jackson – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2024
There is continued pressure on universities to develop future-oriented graduates given documented skill gaps and global talent shortages. Although work experience supports work-readiness and is prioritised among graduate employers, little is known about the labour market gains from student employment compared to work experience embedded within the…
Descriptors: Student Employment, Employment Potential, Work Experience, Curriculum
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Meghan Stacey – Educational Review, 2024
Teachers seeking work in market-oriented schooling systems confront a range of settings within which they might teach. This article presents the views of ten teachers on the cusp of beginning teaching in the market-oriented schooling system of Australia, regarding the school or schools they would like to work in as teachers. Data were gathered via…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Teacher Characteristics
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Meghan Stacey; Nicole Mockler – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2024
The figure of the teacher is becoming increasingly significant in schooling systems around the globe. In this article, we consider how the market-oriented system of schooling in the Australian state of New South Wales may be reflecting and (re)shaping understandings of who teachers are and should be. To do this, we present a corpus-assisted…
Descriptors: Teacher Recruitment, Teacher Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Public Schools
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R. M. Lysaght; N. Bobbette – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2024
Background: Productivity-based wage systems are intended to enhance the labour market participation of people with disabilities. Limited scholarship exists regarding the impact of such policies in practice. This qualitative study explored stakeholder perspectives on the Australian Supported Wage System (SWS), including perceptions of fairness and…
Descriptors: Wages, Productivity, Civil Rights, Relationship
Palmer, Bryan – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2022
This paper summarises the exploratory quantitative analysis undertaken to investigate how vocational education and training (VET) students cluster and segment in the Australian VET market. This analysis is outlined in three sections. The first section focuses on 'clustering' as a technique for grouping data and the three clustering algorithms…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Foreign Countries, Labor Market, Multivariate Analysis
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Norberto Ribeiro; Carla Malafaia; Tiago Neves; Isabel Menezes – European Journal of Higher Education, 2024
This study provides a "narrative synthesis" of the findings published in journal articles from a broad range of scientific fields about the impact of extracurricular activities (ECAs) on the academic success and employability of university students. The analysis included 39 articles from the Scopus and Web of Science databases, published…
Descriptors: Extracurricular Activities, College Students, Academic Achievement, Employment Potential
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Lee Del Col; Garth Stahl – Australian Educational Researcher, 2024
Within a neoliberal educational policy context, we are increasingly witness to educational leaders compelled to become strategic operators to ensure the survival of their schools. Drawing on the tenets of institutional ethnography (IE), this article traces the everyday work and experience of a school leader in one Australian private school site…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Educational Policy, Private Schools, Foreign Countries
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Rob Strathdee – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2024
Concerns about the poor outcomes from school-based vocational education, which is heavily concentrated in schools serving disadvantaged communities, has led the State Government of Victoria, Australia, to implement major reforms, including abolishing the Victoria Certificate of Applied Learning. Instead, from 2023, learning in vocational education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Educational Change, Certification
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Kun Dai; Guanglun Michael Mu – Higher Education Research and Development, 2024
Much research has investigated international graduate employability in home "or" host countries. However, limited studies have accounted for such employability "across" the home and the host. Drawing on Bourdieu's relational and reflexive sociology, this paper critically examined the first author's narrative of his employment…
Descriptors: Doctoral Degrees, Labor Market, Employment Potential, Foreign Countries
William E. Even; Takashi Yamashita; Phyllis A. Cummins – Grantee Submission, 2023
Using data from the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies, this paper compares the earnings premium and employment share of jobs in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) across 11 member countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. The results reveal that the STEM wage premium…
Descriptors: STEM Careers, Wages, Comparative Analysis, Educational Attainment
William E. Even; Takashi Yamashita; Phyllis A. Cummins – New Horizons in Adult Education & Human Resource Development, 2023
Using data from the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies, this paper compares the earnings premium and employment share of jobs in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) across 11 member countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. The results reveal that the STEM wage premium…
Descriptors: STEM Careers, Wages, Comparative Analysis, Educational Attainment
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Rana, Rajib; Galligan, Linda; Fard, Rouz; McCredie, Tessa – Journal of Teaching and Learning for Graduate Employability, 2023
Employability skills and capabilities are equally important as academic and technical knowledge in the current job market. Consequently, universities are increasingly focusing on providing employability skills to their students. While universities in Australia are experimenting with various methods for employability embedding, we could not find…
Descriptors: Employment Potential, Bachelors Degrees, Time to Degree, Labor Market
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Thanh Pham; Behnam Soltani; Jasvir Kaur Nachatar Singh – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2024
This study deployed a mixed-method approach to explore how international graduates identified and strategically utilised their resources to negotiate employability in the host country. One hundred and eighty international graduates from Australian universities participated in a survey and in-depth interviews. Findings revealed that employability…
Descriptors: Employment Potential, Human Capital, Sustainability, Foreign Countries
Moschion, Julie; Polidano, Cain; Fischer, Daniel – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2022
The aim of this analysis of data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey is to compare labour market outcomes between individuals who have Vocational Education and Training (VET) qualifications only, VET and Higher Education (HE) qualifications and HE qualifications only, but who work in the same occupations. In…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Higher Education, Career Pathways, Labor Market
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Julien, Brianna L.; Lexis, Louise; Church, Jarrod – Journal of Teaching and Learning for Graduate Employability, 2023
Students, the public, and government expect university graduates to find meaningful employment and contribute to the economic and social prosperity of society. Universities have a responsibility to support students to develop their career management skills. An assessed career research module was embedded into a second-year human physiology subject…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Undergraduate Students, Career Choice, Labor Market
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