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Cedefop - European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training, 2018
Long-term unemployment (LTU) is a pressing problem, with serious consequences for those concerned and society as a whole. Although the current employment recovery contributed to a modest decrease, in 2016 almost 10 million people in the European Union (EU) were still long-term unemployed. Since the economic crisis, it has become harder to escape…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Education Work Relationship, Structural Unemployment, Employment Patterns
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Matsuo, Makoto – International Journal of Training and Development, 2015
Although work experiences are recognized as important mechanisms for developing leaders in organizations, existing research has focused primarily on work assignments rather than on human resource development (HRD) systems that promote experiential learning of managers. The primary goal of this study was to develop an HRD model for facilitating…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Labor Force Development, Experiential Learning, Administrators
Education Commission of the States, 2020
What do state policies say about how to fund postsecondary education? This 50-State Comparison answers this question by searching state statutes, state rules and regulations, enacted state budget bills, and state postsecondary education agency policies that address postsecondary education budgeting and funding. According to the content of the…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, State Aid, Educational Policy, State Policy
OECD Publishing, 2021
The OECD Career Readiness project makes use of quantitative evidence to identify how teenage career-related activities and attitudes are linked with better adult employment outcomes. Review of multiple national longitudinal datasets confirms that teenage experiences of the workplace through part-time working and volunteering are routinely…
Descriptors: Work Experience Programs, Work Attitudes, Value Judgment, Adolescents
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Crawford, Ian; Wang, Zhiqi – Accounting Education, 2019
Little research attention has been paid to the effect of yearlong placements in elite accounting firms and investment banks on the social mobility of working class graduates. Using the framework of Bourdieu, this paper examines the link between placements and employment destinations of eight cohorts of accounting and finance graduates from a…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Social Mobility, Accounting, Banking
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Ashton, Daniel – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2015
Employability literature has consistently emphasised the importance of work placements for securing employment post graduation. This article presents findings from a project focusing on the experiences of higher education students who have undertaken course-related work experience placements as part of their "creative industries"…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Job Placement, Employment Potential, Case Studies
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Dunne, Julie – Journal of Teaching and Learning for Graduate Employability, 2019
This study investigated the effect of activities to promote awareness of specific prioritised graduate attributes on the quality of reflection displayed in work-placement reflective blog assessments for Pharmacy-technician students. Previous related research showed an increased tendency to frame placement experiences in terms of graduate…
Descriptors: Pharmacy, Technical Education, Reflection, Job Placement
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Roberts, Ashleigh G. – Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 2018
Universities are breaking away from the academic apprenticeship-type PhD model towards more individualised and collaborative programmes. Papers published in peer-reviewed academic journals on this topic were compiled to investigate the conversation surrounding PhD reform. Important considerations derived from the literature were that PhD…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Doctoral Programs, Educational Change, Job Skills
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LaFave, Allison; Kelly, Emily; Ford, Jacob – National Center for Education Statistics, 2018
This report is based on data from the High School Longitudinal Study of 2009 (HSLS:09), a nationally representative, longitudinal study of more than 23,000 ninth-graders in 2009. The cohort was surveyed again in spring 2012 when most students were in eleventh grade. This survey included questions about characteristics that would influence choosing…
Descriptors: College Choice, Grade 9, High School Students, Grade 11
Carruth, Blair; Palica, Michael – Utah System of Higher Education, 2018
This report includes data on a diverse and broad array of Career and Technical Education (CTE), credit and noncredit offerings, provided by the Utah System of Higher Education (USHE) institutions that prepare people for employment in current or emerging occupations that require postsecondary credentials other than a baccalaureate or advanced…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Postsecondary Education, Undergraduate Study, Noncredit Courses
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Fuller, Edward J.; Hollingworth, Liz – Journal of Research on Leadership Education, 2016
Recent calls to hold preparation programs accountable for outcomes have led states to develop and adopt preparation program accountability systems. A primary feature of these systems is a focus on outcomes such as placement rates, retention rates, and graduates' effectiveness in improving K-12 student achievement. Yet, little research has examined…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Education, Job Placement, Program Evaluation
Burkhardt, Tiffany; Dasgupta, Denali; Schlecht, Colleen; Carreon, Erin; Pacheco-Applegate, Aida – Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago, 2020
The Chicago Young Parents Program (CYPP) is a two-generation pilot program, combining youth employment and mentoring with comprehensive Head Start programming for participants' children and their families. CYPP was designed to improve parenting, personal growth, and family self-sufficiency through education and employment. This study was designed…
Descriptors: Early Parenthood, Mentors, Early Intervention, Family Programs
Atfield, Gaby; Hunt, Wil; Luchinskaya, Daria – UK Department for Education, 2021
Given the recent focus on the employability and earnings of university graduates in the UK, there is a need to explore the employability initiatives offered by higher education institutions (HEIs). Work placements and work experience offered through HEIs aim to improve students' job readiness, and ability to secure suitable jobs after graduation,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, College Graduates, Employment Potential
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Barton, Georgina; Hartwig, Kay; Le, Anh Hai – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2019
Across the globe, there are increased numbers of students undertaking university-level study in foreign countries. Many of the programs they enroll in include a workplace experience (also known as work integrated learning, internship, and/or practicum). The Work Placement for International Student Programs (WISP) project was conducted across…
Descriptors: Integrated Activities, Learning Activities, Practicums, Internship Programs
Jobs for the Future, 2019
This brief highlights examples of career pathway models funded by TAACCCT [Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training] that were designed for adult students who require accelerated timelines because they are often under pressure to enter or reenter the workforce quickly to support their families. In each of the cases chosen,…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Acceleration (Education), Vocational Education, Community Colleges
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