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Varadarajan, Soovendran; Koh, Joyce Hwee Ling; Daniel, Ben Kei – International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education, 2023
Micro-credentials are gaining traction as viable vehicles for rapid upskilling of the workforce in the twenty-first century and potential pathways for gaining employment for some students. The primary purpose of the current systematic review was to understand the current conceptions and discourses of micro-credentials in higher education and to…
Descriptors: Microcredentials, Higher Education, Attitudes, Discourse Analysis
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Tynan, Margaret – Industry and Higher Education, 2023
This paper adopts a cross-disciplinary approach to opportunity recognition competence development. Prior research suggests that opportunity recognition is a relatively neglected area in enterprise and entrepreneurship education. Increasingly, there are calls to look to the creative disciplines for pedagogies that could enhance the creativity…
Descriptors: Opportunities, Recognition (Psychology), Entrepreneurship, Skill Development
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Corson, Jordan – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 2023
This qualitative study examines educational life in a neighborhood in Mexico City, analyzing how discourses have produced the neighborhood, Tepito, as a place "without education." Simultaneously, ethnographic research entangles with theories of radical equality and resistance to explore how education emerges and how certain forms of…
Descriptors: Ethics, Neighborhoods, Discourse Analysis, Ethnography
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Hirao, Tomotaka – Higher Education Forum, 2023
This paper replicates models developed by previous research to study the effects of graduate education on new graduates' initial employment in the Japanese labor market. If education is the best investment for an individual's economic success, then graduate degrees are expected to provide an individual with higher-earning job opportunities.…
Descriptors: Graduate Study, Employment Potential, Foreign Countries, Employment Opportunities
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Daugherty, Lindsay; Bahr, Peter Riley; Nguyen, Peter; May-Trifiletti, Jennifer; Columbus, Rooney; Kushner, Jonah – RAND Corporation, 2023
A growing number of postsecondary institutions and systems have begun offering or scaling stackable credential programs. These structured education and training pathways--in fields such as health care, information technology, and manufacturing and engineering technology--provide individuals with opportunities to earn certificates, postsecondary…
Descriptors: Low Income Students, Credentials, College Credits, Educational Certificates
Baran, Cavit; Chyn, Eric; Stuart, Bryan A. – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2023
This paper studies the impact of the First Great Migration on children. We use the complete count 1940 Census to estimate selection-corrected place effects on education for children of Black migrants. On average, Black children gained 0.8 years of schooling (12 percent) by moving from the South to North. Many counties that had the strongest…
Descriptors: African American Children, African American History, Migrants, Migrant Children
Goldhaber, Dan; Falken, Grace; Theobald, Roddy – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2023
Several decades of research using school administrative data show that teacher quality is inequitably distributed across schools. But these estimates may understate teacher-related inequities if they do not account for how teacher vacancies or late hires are distributed across schools. We investigate these hiring issues using data on a direct…
Descriptors: Job Application, Personnel Selection, Equal Education, School Administration
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Noemí Pérez-Macías; Laura Gismera Tierno; Vitor L. De Nicolas – SAGE Open, 2023
The interest in entrepreneurship is growing, due to its relationship with competitiveness, growth, employment, and innovation. In fact, there are numerous studies trying to identify factors influencing entrepreneurial intentions among university students, especially among young people, and in those countries with declining growth rates. Using the…
Descriptors: College Students, Entrepreneurship, Intention, Educational Innovation
Buckley, Brittanie Charlotta – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this qualitative case study was to explore the perceptions and experiences of eight female safety professionals who have advanced in leadership roles. Participants selected represented a pool of highly experienced and qualified female safety professionals. Data were collected through interviews, document collection, and a…
Descriptors: Females, Safety, Industry, Professional Personnel
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Kenny, Maureen E.; Schmidtberger, Rebecca; Masters, Allison – Australian Journal of Career Development, 2023
This article advances a prevention and positive youth development perspective for promoting access to decent work and decent lives for all. We apply the psychology of working theory to consider the readiness of youth to contribute to this aspirational goal and the roles that education and career development education could play in furthering a…
Descriptors: Youth, Individual Development, Quality of Life, Employment Opportunities
Erica Kennedy – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Although there is an increase in literature on Black women's leadership in academia, the majority of studies have concentrated on their experiences at institutions that are predominately White (Jean-Marie & Tickles, 2017, p. 102). Furthermore, despite advanced degrees and a strong presence in most professional areas, women remained excluded…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, College Presidents, Women Administrators, African Americans
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Victoria Povilaitis; Robert Warner; Katie McGregor Wheatley – Journal of Youth Development, 2023
Summer camps are a common youth development setting in North America; however, youth from low-income backgrounds often cannot attend because of financial barriers. Subsequently, although a robust camp literature exists, little is known about the lasting benefits for youth from low-income backgrounds. Even less is known about how these outcomes may…
Descriptors: Adults, Disadvantaged Youth, Low Income, Camps
Kepple, Cassandra R. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Students come to college with expectations that their experiences will help them secure a career after graduation (Eagan et al., 2016; Stolzenberg et al., 2020). Institutions offer work-integrated learning (WIL) experiences, which directly connect students' coursework to future careers (Cooper et al., 2010). Extant literature provides an abundance…
Descriptors: College Students, Work Experience Programs, Employment Patterns, Outcomes of Education
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Jianjun Wang – Grantee Submission, 2024
California State University, Bakersfield (CSUB) continues its five-year grant, "An Equitable Pathway to In-Demand STEM Careers," that began in Fall 2021 to facilitate Hispanic students' degree completion and career preparation in STEM fields. In the second year, the grant team has made satisfactory progress in offering summer and winter…
Descriptors: Career Pathways, Equal Education, Hispanic American Students, Institutional Characteristics
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David Carter; Wasif Minhas; Gail Al Hafidh – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2025
Purpose: This research paper explores the degree to which employability skills are embedded across educational programs in higher education (HE) institutions in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and to establish how successfully the required graduate attributes are being promoted, particularly those relating to employability.…
Descriptors: Employment Potential, Job Skills, Foreign Countries, Self Evaluation (Groups)
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