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Pullman, Ashley; Jongbloed, Janine – Journal of Education and Work, 2019
Through analyses of Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) data, the following study considers the direct and indirect association between education and workplace task discretion in 30 countries. By focusing on cross-national comparison, it considers the ways in which these findings are dependent on both the…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Adults, Professional Autonomy, Context Effect
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Rudakov, Victor; Roshchin, Sergey – Journal of Education and Work, 2019
This paper analyses the impact of academic achievement on future salaries by looking into the grade point average (GPA)-earnings relationship for graduates of a leading Russian university. The study is based on pooled cross-sectional graduate survey data for 2014-2015. The issue of how student academic achievement impacts future labour market…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Achievement, Salaries, Grade Point Average
Theobald, Roddy; Plasman, Jay; Gottfried, Michael; Gratz, Trevor; Holden, Kristian; Goldhaber, Dan – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2019
We leverage nationally representative data and statewide data from Washington to investigate trends in occupational career and technical education (CTE) participation for students with and without disabilities. Consistent with prior work, we document declines in occupational CTE participation since the early 2000s, and provide the first empirical…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Vocational Education, Educational Trends, STEM Education
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Hordern, Jim – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2016
This paper extends arguments for differentiating knowledge into conceptualisations of occupational practice. It is argued that specialised forms of knowledge and practice require recognition and differentiation in ways that many contemporary approaches to practice theory deny. Drawing on Hager's interpretation of MacIntyre, it is suggested that…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Vocational Education, Technical Education, Career Education
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Alajmi, Maadi Mahdi – Journal of Social Studies Education Research, 2021
This study aims to identify the forms of violent extremism among students of the College of Education at Kuwait University and specify the causes that drive youth towards it. This study used a cross-sectional design to which MANOVA analysis was used to analyze data. Sample of this study included 192 faculty members and 426 students of Kuwait…
Descriptors: Role of Education, Higher Education, Terrorism, Antisocial Behavior
European Training Foundation, 2021
The European Training Foundation (ETF) has created a network of vocational schools and centres that aim for excellence: the ETF Network for Excellence (ENE). Its members are vocational education providers that wish to learn from each other, collaborate, improve their practice, introduce innovation, establish partnerships and provide support to…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Vocational Schools, Partnerships in Education, Institutional Cooperation
Fry, Rick; Kennedy, Brian; Funk, Cary – Pew Research Center, 2021
For this report, the authors analyzed federal government data to look at gender, racial and ethnic diversity among those employed in and earning degrees in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). Analysis of the STEM workforce is based solely on occupation, using data from the U.S. Census Bureau's 1990 and 2000 U.S. decennial censuses…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Racial Differences, Disproportionate Representation, Federal Government
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Kaiumov, A. T.; Kanikov, F. K.; Iskhakova, N. R. – Russian Education and Society, 2014
Research on factors affecting the prestige of engineering and blue-collar occupations in Russia shows that, in addition to such things as intrinsic interest and expected income, young people's views are influenced by the kinds of people who typically go into various kinds of occupation.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Career Choice, Student Attitudes
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Ginevra, Maria Cristina; Nota, Laura – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2017
The first purpose of the study was to establish how Italian adolescents perceive jobs in the newly emerging economy sectors as well as more traditional jobs from gender-stereotyped and gender-segregated perspectives. The second purpose was to verify the role of problem-solving and gender in gender-role stereotyping. A total of 217 Italian high…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sex Stereotypes, Problem Solving, Adolescents
Capps, Randy; Fix, Michael; Zong, Jie – Migration Policy Institute, 2017
Since its launch by the Obama administration in August 2012, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program has provided work authorization and a two-year reprieve from deportation to nearly 800,000 unauthorized immigrants who came to the United States as children. Having marked its fifth anniversary, the program--and its…
Descriptors: Undocumented Immigrants, Young Adults, Employment Level, Educational Attainment
Noonan, Ryan – US Department of Commerce, 2017
In March, the Office of the Chief Economist (OCE) released the first in a series of reports updating and expanding our previous work examining the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) workforce. That first report, "STEM Jobs. 2017 Update," provided an overview of STEM workers and their earning power. This second report…
Descriptors: Females, STEM Education, Labor Market, Income
Uppal, Sharanjit – Statistics Canada, 2017
Western countries have the highest levels of educational attainment in the world. Many individuals, however, do not have a high school diploma and consequently do not have any certification from the school system. For example, among Canadians aged 25 and over in 2016, 14% reported that their highest level of education was "less than high…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Employment, Dropouts, Young Adults
Tyler, Mark; Dymock, Darryl – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2017
This occasional paper provides a stocktake of recent developments in continuing professional development for VET practitioners. It explores issues such as industry currency, the debate around a professional association for VET and the Certificate IV in Training and Assessment as the minimum qualification for VET practitioners. Through synthesising…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Professional Continuing Education, Faculty Development, Vocational Education Teachers
American Association of University Women, 2022
While COVID-19 is capable of infecting anyone, the level of risk is far from equal. Data show that Black and Latino communities, already suffering from deep-rooted economic and health inequalities, have borne the brunt of the pandemic. Latinas, in particular, have suffered some of the most egregious economic and health disparities over the past…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Hispanic Americans, Racial Bias
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Canchola González, José Antonio; Glasserman-Morales, Leonardo David – Knowledge Management & E-Learning, 2020
In Mexico, there has been a rise in Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) enrollments through platforms such as MexicoX. However, this rise in interest has not been accompanied by a corresponding increase in completion rates. This article examines the factors that influence Mexican learners' retention rates and learner engagement to determine the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Online Courses, Large Group Instruction, Educational Technology
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