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No Particular Way to Go: Careers of Young Adults Lacking Upper Secondary Qualifications
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Lundahl, Lisbeth; Lindblad, Michael; Lovén, Anders; Mårald, Gunilla; Svedberg, Gudrun – Journal of Education and Work, 2017
This article aims to deepen understanding of the trajectories through school and into adulthood of people who did not attain valued qualifications from upper secondary school ("non-completers"), and explore the fruitfulness of careership theory for such analysis. It is based on interviews with 100 young Swedes: 81 non-completers and 19…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Education Work Relationship, Foreign Countries, Dropouts
Student Perceptions of New Differentiation Policies in Swedish Post-16 Education
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Arreeman, Inger Erixon – European Educational Research Journal, 2014
In Sweden, and in most other Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries, post-16 education is a general requirement to succeed in adult life. By the late 2000s, after about two decades of policies for student choice and publicly funded free schools, students' results in the Programme for International Student…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Secondary Education, Track System (Education)
The Matching of Educational and Occupational Structures in Finland and Sweden. Final Report. CEDEFOP Dossier.
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Ahola, Sakari – 1999
This report studies the matching of educational and occupational structures in Sweden and Finland by using classifications that include all educational and occupational groups. By using comprehensive databases available in Finland and Sweden, it aims to develop the methodological and theoretical perspectives of the research on education and…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Comparative Analysis, Education Work Relationship, Educational Certificates
Stimulating Science and Technology in Higher Education: An International Comparison of Policy Measures and Their Effectiveness. Summary
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Hamer, Rebecca; Frinking, Erik J.; Horlings, Edwin – RAND Corporation, 2005
RAND Europe has performed a study for the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science. This study aims to increase the understanding regarding the influence of societal developments and policy initiatives on the attractiveness and uptake of science and technology (S&T) in higher education. This study consists of an international…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Science Education
Stimulating Science and Technology in Higher Education: An International Comparison of Policy Measures and Their Effectiveness
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Hamer, Rebecca; Frinking, Erik J.; Horlings, Edwin – RAND Corporation, 2005
RAND Europe has performed a study for the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science. This study aims to increase the understanding regarding the influence of societal developments and policy initiatives on the attractiveness and uptake of science and technology (S&T) in higher education. This study consists of an international…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Science Education
Workshop Presentations of the World Seminar on Employment Counseling (Ottawa, Ontario, September 1980).
Ross, Gladys G., Ed. – 1980
This monograph presents 26 papers addressed to workshop sessions representing thought and innovation in employment counseling and vocational guidance. Two papers are written in German, one in French, and 23 in English. Abstracts preceding each paper appear in the two languages other than that used for the paper itself. Topics covered include…
Descriptors: Adult Counseling, Adult Education, Career Change, Career Choice
On Their Own? Making the Transition from School to Work in the Information Age.
Crysdale, Stewart; King, Alan J. C.; Mandell, Nancy – 1999
This book examines the factors responsible for the difficulties being experienced by many young Canadians trying to find permanent jobs in a growing economy and explains how Canadian youths can make the best use of the opportunities offered by academic and other programs to find a satisfying life in the workforce. The following are among the…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Career Choice, Comparative Analysis, Cooperative Education