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Dannefjord, Per; Persson, Magnus; Bertilsson, Emil – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2023
This study examines job-changing patterns of secondary school teachers in a segregated local school market in Sweden. In an initial step, we use information on pupils' resources to hierarchically group schools in four groups, where schools with similar pupil bases are sorted together. By interviewing 29 teachers, the conclusion is that when…
Descriptors: Faculty Mobility, Secondary School Teachers, Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes
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Maurer, Markus – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2023
This article analyses the development and implementation of policies that aim at improving the 'recognition of prior learning' (RPL) in the vocational education and training (VET) systems of Sweden and Switzerland. It argues that the evolution of RPL policies and schemes needs to be analysed in relation to educational expansion, which creates…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Prior Learning, Qualifications, Foreign Countries
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Rebecca Ye; Erik Nylander – European Educational Research Journal, 2024
When comparing lifelong learning systems in Europe, Swedish vocational education has been characterised as a statist, school-based ideal type, with strong emphasis on egalitarianism and social citizenship. However, the popularisation and expansion of higher vocational education (HVE), a post-secondary training form that has a mandate to train…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Higher Education, Educational Sociology, Foreign Countries
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Anne Margrethe Glømmen; Beate Brevik Saethern; Rikard Eriksson – International Journal of Mentoring and Coaching in Education, 2024
Purpose: This study aimed to identify and describe how mentoring influences the mentor, by operationalising and specifying learning outcomes involved in mentoring. Design/methodology/approach: This study used an action research approach, by uniting theory and practice to explore new ways of learning and evolve the field of practice in education.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adults, Refugees, Mentors
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Maurer, Markus – Comparative Education, 2023
This article contributes to a better theoretical understanding of the social processes underlying the development and implementation of schemes to improve the recognition of prior learning (RPL) in vocational education and training (VET). It traces the global diffusion of RPL, and then analyses the formulation of RPL policies and design and…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Vocational Education, Global Approach, Social Influences
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Ennerberg, Elin – International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 2022
This article analyses the case of a Swedish so-called "fast-track" programme for newly arrived migrant teachers with the use of a conceptual model of lifelong learning dimensions (Boyadjieva & Ilieva-Trichkova, 2016). The material is based on individual and focus group interviews with individual participants, public employment…
Descriptors: Labor Market, Migrants, College Faculty, Foreign Countries
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Ennerberg, Elin; Economou, Catarina – Vocations and Learning, 2022
Amongst the most significant labour market challenges is the integration of migrants and the opportunities for individual migrants to find employment that match their qualifications. The object of this study is to analyse the formal and informal obstacles migrant teachers face when entering the labour market. These obstacles include the formal…
Descriptors: Migrants, Minority Group Teachers, Labor Market, Reentry Workers
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Johanna Köpsén – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2024
Contemporary vocational education and training (VET), both initial and higher, is strongly market oriented, and governments shape systems with significant roles for employers. The study presented in this article aims at examining how employers are positioned in the practice of VET provision in such a system. Specifically, it recognises and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Postsecondary Education, Labor Market
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Xavier Rambla; Nafsika Alexiadou – European Journal of Education, 2024
In this article we examine the European Semester as an innovative form of policy coordination, with distinct effects on education and skills policies for Member States. We analyse the Semester's framing of education policy, and examine its manifestations in Spain and Sweden, two countries considered to be different in their approach to education.…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Policy Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies, 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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Hedlin, Maria; Åberg, Magnus – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2023
The concepts glass escalator and glass ceiling have been widely used in studies of gender and organisations. In this paper we propose a novel metaphor to describe and analyse gender segregation and discrimination, that of a "glass funnel." This concept does not relate to men and women as groups in the sense of fixed collective entities,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Discrimination, Allied Health Occupations Education, Allied Health Personnel
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Tjulin, Åsa; Klockmo, Carolina – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2023
Purpose: This study explores the organisational dynamics in a change process across work units in a Swedish municipality. The purpose of this study is to understand how and why co-creation unfolds during efforts to bring different units into one united work unit. Design/methodology/approach: A qualitative longitudinal study was designed using data…
Descriptors: Organizational Learning, Workplace Learning, Foreign Countries, Social Services
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Dagmar Rusková; Lubica Vaskova – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2023
Technical, economical, and social changes place great demands on the qualification of professional forces in all areas of the national economy. The decisive foundations for these qualifications are built in vocational education. Vocational education is an investment in the future and one of the decisive pillars of the prosperity of every state in…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Vocational Education Teachers, Teacher Role, Teacher Qualifications
OECD Publishing, 2022
The labour market outcomes for native- and foreign-born adults during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic vary considerably across countries -- with inequalities in employment even falling in some cases compared to 2017. In contrast with the 2008 financial crisis, greater educational attainment does not seem to have had a clear protective…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Labor Market, COVID-19, Pandemics
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