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Regional Educational Laboratory Appalachia, 2020
To help students leave high school on a path toward success in the labor market, education policymakers and practitioners often focus on improving career and technical education (CTE) opportunities in high school. This study quantifies the system-level alignment between West Virginia's high school CTE programs and the labor market. West Virginia…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, High Schools, Labor Market, Education Work Relationship
Yokoyama, Keiko – Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, 2019
Neoliberal capitalism has faced severe criticism both in principle and in practice since the Lehman Shock in 2008. The purpose of the paper is to identify and explain how the current mode of neoliberal capitalism redefines and reshapes the societal roles of the university sector in neoliberal capitalist societies, notably the UK and the US in the…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Social Systems, Economic Climate, Financial Exigency
Germain-Alamartine, Eloïse; Ahoba-Sam, Rhoda; Moghadam-Saman, Saeed; Evers, Gerwin – Studies in Higher Education, 2021
Increased public investment in PhD education to drive innovation has led to a recent rapid growth in the number of PhD graduates. Academic labour markets have not developed at the same pace. An ever-larger share of the graduates is finding employment in industry. The transition from academia to industry is not always easy. The present study aims…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Doctoral Degrees, Graduates, Education Work Relationship
Smith, Emma; White, Patrick – Research Papers in Education, 2022
Concerns over the supply of highly-skilled (HS) science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) workers are well established and have been a feature of policy discourse in the UK for more than 50 years. Since the 2016 referendum on leaving the European Union, these concerns have been exacerbated by uncertainty about the movement of labour…
Descriptors: STEM Education, College Graduates, Employment Level, Employment Opportunities
Chang, Sandra Rodrigues da Silva; Duarte, Marcia Maria Nascimento Baptista; Veloso, José Rodrigo Paprotzki – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2019
Brazil faces complex challenges regarding the need to pursue economic growth coupled with the inclusion of diverse segments of society, including people with disability. This paper seeks to highlight historical aspects about the insertion of people with disability in the Brazilian labour market, to secure the need for public policies to guarantee…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Disabilities, Vocational Education, Students with Disabilities
Olofsson, Jonas; Panican, Alexandru – Policy Futures in Education, 2019
What is the significance of regulations of job contracts and wages when it comes to young people's access to labour market? This is an issue that has attracted and continues to attract a great deal of interest in both research and politics. Proposals for deregulated employment protection and reduced entry-level pay recur regularly in public…
Descriptors: Labor Market, Apprenticeships, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Youth
Pizarro Milian, Roger; Missaghian, Rod – Higher Education Quarterly, 2019
Interdisciplinary programmes have proliferated across post-secondary education in recent decades. Despite this, little attention has been paid to the manner in which interdisciplinary programmes promote themselves to external constituents. To study this process, we conduct a content analysis of the online self-descriptions of 203…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disciplines, Content Analysis, Interdisciplinary Approach, Program Descriptions
Sabzalieva, Emma; El Masri, Amira; Joshi, Anumoni; Laufer, Melissa; Trilokekar, Roopa Desai; Haas, Christina – Policy Reviews in Higher Education, 2022
The proposition that international students are not only sojourners but future immigrants has become well established in public policy. While education and immigration policy have become more intertwined, they continue to be analysed as separate spheres of influence. This paper compares Australia, Canada, and Germany, which between them host…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Foreign Students, Public Policy, Cross Cultural Studies
Brooks, Rachel; Waters, Johanna – Oxford Review of Education, 2022
This paper analyses the way in which 'international' is mobilised in relation to international student mobility (ISM), focusing on three areas in particular: its role in motivating students to undertake ISM; how it shapes experiences of ISM; and, finally, how conceptions of the international influence the impacts of ISM (in terms of students'…
Descriptors: Student Mobility, Study Abroad, International Education, Educational Experience
Miller, Sheridan – New England Journal of Higher Education, 2020
The economic fallout of the layoffs and business closures caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc for New England workers--especially those who were already facing a structurally vulnerable workforce and employment system before the pandemic. What can state governments do to stimulate job creation and make New England's economy more…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Economic Factors, Geographic Regions
European Training Foundation, 2024
This study focuses on the gender dimension of labour market transitions and its implications for policymaking in the areas of active labour market policies, career guidance, and skills development. The ETF initiated this research to map how activation and skills development policies are gaining importance in the neighbouring countries of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Issues, Labor Market, Public Policy
Unterman, Rebecca; Shih, Miki – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2022
In a prior study, MDRC researchers found that Small Schools of Choice, a SIG-approved high school reform initiative, markedly and consistently increased high school graduation rates in New York City when it was implemented in 100+ high schools between 2002 and 2008. A four-year follow-up study found that the initiative increased students'…
Descriptors: Small Schools, School Choice, High School Students, Educational Change
Taylor, Amanda; Nelson, Julie; O'Donnell, Sharon; Davies, Elizabeth; Hillary, Jude – National Foundation for Educational Research, 2022
Calls are intensifying for workforce reskilling and a re-engineering of education and training to meet the demands of the future. Current policy in England focuses on technical, digital and green economy skills, underpinned by strong literacy and numeracy and a knowledge-rich school curriculum. National Foundation for Educational Research's…
Descriptors: Job Skills, Labor Market, Foreign Countries, Futures (of Society)
Brown, Phillip; Souto-Otero, Manuel – Journal of Education Policy, 2020
A major focus of sociological research is on the role of the credential as a 'currency of opportunity', mediating the relationship between education and occupational destinations. However, the labour market has largely remained a 'black box' in sociological and education policy studies. This article draws on 'big data' from over 21,000,000 job…
Descriptors: Credentials, Qualifications, Employment Qualifications, Education Work Relationship
Weisser, Reinhard A. – Research in Higher Education, 2020
In this paper I investigate undergraduate students' discrete location choices in presence of a plethora of potential destinations and psychic costs. I demonstrate how enrolment into institutions of tertiary education is influenced by personality and social preferences. More importantly, these individual traits are found to affect the valuation of…
Descriptors: College Choice, Personality Traits, Decision Making, Correlation