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Lum, Gerard – Journal of Education and Work, 2015
While acknowledging that a system of vocational qualifications might be perceived as having any number of possible purposes, this paper identifies three primary functions that any vocational qualification must fulfil by dint of being a vocational qualification. It is argued that current arrangements are unable to fulfil these essential functions…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Qualifications, Job Skills, Minimum Competencies
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Li, Ihsuan; Malvin, Mathew; Simonson, Robert D. – Journal of Education for Business, 2015
Overeducation and underemployment are of increasing national concern. Recent research estimates that 48% of workers are overeducated for their positions. The wage penalty for overeducation varies significantly across majors by gender. Using the American Community Survey (Ruggles et al., 2010), the authors examine the extent of overeducation among…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Salary Wage Differentials, Educational Attainment, Majors (Students)
Hora, Matthew T.; Benbow, Ross J.; Oleson, Amanda K. – Wisconsin Center for Education Research, 2016
The idea of a skills gap suggests that employers have jobs available but cannot find skilled applicants because higher education is poorly aligned with workforce needs. This idea is shaping higher education and workforce development policy at the national and state levels, yet limited research exists on the experiences of employers and educators…
Descriptors: School Support, Achievement Gap, Education Work Relationship, Cultural Capital
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Cummins, Phyllis A. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2015
Despite the desire of many older adults to remain in the workforce, those without jobs face unprecedented durations of unemployment. Many of the unemployed lack current skills for jobs in demand and need to either upgrade their skills or be trained for a new occupation to become reemployed. An aging workforce, combined with the negative effects of…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Role, Older Workers, Career Development
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Wagner, Cecelia – Adult Learning, 2013
The new "green economy" affects adult education and workforce development as adult workers seek skills and knowledge that will help them find success in work and life. Recent years have brought about increased interest in and discussion of training for green jobs. Since the introduction of the Green Jobs Act in 2007, questions about how exactly to…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Career Development, Education Work Relationship, Expertise
Young, Jeffrey R. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2012
Grades are broken. Students grub for them, pick classes where good ones come easily, and otherwise hustle to win the highest scores for the least learning. As a result, college grades are inflated to the point of meaninglessness--especially to employers who want to know which diploma-holder is best qualified for their jobs. An alternative is to…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Grade Inflation, Grade Point Average, Academic Achievement
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Undie, John Atewhoble; Okafor, Victor – African Higher Education Review, 2014
In fundamental economics, individuals acquired education for two broad reasons, as an investment and as consumption. The investment function of education has continued to create tension for job search leading to cases of unemployment. Entrepreneurship education and establishment of mega universities have been identified as panaceas. This paper…
Descriptors: Unemployment, Entrepreneurship, Access to Education, Universities
Nelson, Scott Reynolds – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2013
Technology shifts gears. The workers who control it need to learn how to shift gears, too. Workers brought up with universal schooling would respect authority, learn enough "geometry and mechanics" to use in their trades, keep invention alive, and finally see through "the interested complaints of faction and sedition." In other…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Economic Factors, Labor Utilization, Labor Conditions
Abadzi, Helen – UNESCO International Bureau of Education, 2015
Research on memory functions and their applications is a vast field that has unfolded for decades; some important studies are sixty years old. However, the research has remained a well-kept secret of cognitive psychologists. Education faculties rarely teach memory specifics, so people working in education typically do not know about the above…
Descriptors: Skill Development, Memory, Educational Policy, Cognitive Processes
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Cobo, Cristobal – Curriculum Journal, 2013
This article explores and discusses key conditions needed to develop skills for innovation. This article analyses five trends that can contribute to fostering the development of skills for innovation within and outside formal educational institutions. These key trends, identified through a literature review, are elements that foster learning and…
Descriptors: Innovation, Lifelong Learning, Human Capital, Trend Analysis
LaLonde, Robert; Sullivan, Daniel – Hamilton Project, 2010
Robert LaLonde of the University of Chicago and Daniel Sullivan of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago suggest that retraining through our nation's community colleges is a way to reduce the skills gaps of at least some of these displaced workers and increase their reemployment earnings. Although workers may still experience significant earnings…
Descriptors: Retraining, Vocational Education, Community Colleges, Grants
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Fletcher, Edward C., Jr.; Mountjoy, Kathy; Bailey, Glenn – Career and Technical Education Research, 2011
The majority of studies regarding the preparation of teachers in the area of content knowledge indicate there is a lack of deeper understanding of the subject matter in which teachers are licensed to teach (Wilson, Floden, & Ferrini-Mundy, 2001). The purpose of this Delphi research study was to identify the perceptions of recent business education…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Business Education Teachers, Knowledge Level, Graduate Surveys
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Hanson, Janet – Teaching in Higher Education, 2009
Challenges facing universities are leading many to implement institutional strategies to incorporate e-learning rather than leaving its adoption up to enthusiastic individuals. Although there is growing understanding about the impact of e-learning on the student experience, there is less understanding of academics' perceptions of e-learning and…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Student Experience, College Faculty, Teaching Methods
van Loo, Jasper B. – Online Submission, 2007
HRD is extensively concerned with human capital investment, but only focuses on how skills and knowledge become obsolete to a limited extent. In this paper we look at the speed of obsolescence. Using data from a survey among Dutch public sector employees, we find that the yearly rate of skills obsolescence is 2.6%. Subsequent analyses show that…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Skill Obsolescence, Educational Attainment, Education Work Relationship
Braddock, Douglas – Occupational Outlook Quarterly, 1983
Explores whether choice of specialty, employer, or job function minimizes obsolescence for engineers. Considers whether engineering is a lifetime career or a potential springboard to other occupations. (SK)
Descriptors: Employment Projections, Engineers, Labor Market, Skill Obsolescence
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