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Macias, Angela; Stephens, Sophia – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2019
Race and gender are still large barriers for many professionals. These are compounded and complex issues. This article provides a review of literature on how race and gender impact the workplace. Additionally, comparison is made to the education field concerning race, gender, and leadership. Research indicates that race and gender have remained…
Descriptors: Salary Wage Differentials, Race, Barriers, Work Environment
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Lee, Soo Jeung; Müller, Lars – European Journal of Higher Education, 2019
This study analyses the effects of institutional stratification in higher education systems on graduates' wages in engineering fields in Germany and Korea. We use survey data from the Korean 2013 Graduates Occupational Mobility Survey (GOMS) and the German 2013 Graduate Survey Cooperation Project (KOAB). For Korea, where the higher education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cross Cultural Studies, Institutional Characteristics, Salary Wage Differentials
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Fernandez, Frank; Liu, Huacong – Journal of Education and Work, 2019
Policymakers are increasingly concerned that employees need both foundational skills, such as numeracy, and soft skills to take better advantage of new technologies and adapt to changing work. In this study, we examined the relationships between the use of soft skills and occupational outcomes among a nationally representative sample of adult…
Descriptors: 21st Century Skills, Employment Qualifications, Job Skills, Skill Development
Washington State Department of Children, Youth, and Families, 2019
In the 2017-2019 operating budget, the Legislature appropriated $5,000 to create a child care workforce development technical workgroup (Workgroup) and directed the Department of Early Learning (now the Department of Children, Youth, and Families, or DCYF) to convene a group consisting of 13 stakeholders to develop recommendations for the…
Descriptors: Child Care, Child Care Occupations, Child Caregivers, Labor Force Development
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Campbell, Throy A.; Adamuti-Trache, Maria; Bista, Krishna – Journal of International Students, 2018
International students represent a large percentage of the student population in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) programs at American colleges and universities. Although graduates of these programs are identified as having high employability, productivity, and earnings in the 21st-century job market, there is limited…
Descriptors: Wages, Employment, Labor Market, Foreign Students
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Xu, Di; Jaggars, Shanna Smith; Fletcher, Jeffrey; Fink, John E. – Journal of Higher Education, 2018
Using detailed administrative data from Virginia, this paper examines whether community college "vertical transfer" students who resemble "native four-year" students in their accumulated college-level credits and performance at their point of entry into the four-year sector perform equally well in terms of both academic and…
Descriptors: College Transfer Students, Outcomes of Education, Employment Opportunities, Comparative Analysis
Canadian Association of University Teachers, 2018
While post-secondary institutions are publicly committed to equity and diversity, progress has been slow in achieving employment and wage equity for academic staff. This report provides a snapshot of academic staff representation and income in Canada's universities and colleges in 2016, noting in particular changes in the university sector over…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Disproportionate Representation, College Faculty, Minority Group Teachers
Tyler, Mark; Dymock, Darryl – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2021
There is general consensus that vocational education and training (VET) faces a number of workforce problems, including the ageing of VET teachers, the high level of casualisation, the need to increase the capacity of trainers, and the maintenance of industry currency. These issues, along with the need for the VET sector to respond to critical…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Vocational Education Teachers, Teacher Qualifications, Teacher Recruitment
BC Student Outcomes, 2021
Every year, BC Student Outcomes collects feedback from former students who took post-secondary programs. Student feedback is essential to maintain quality and relevance in the education system. In 2021, just over 29,500 former students were surveyed; key results from those surveys are presented here. In 2021, 92 percent of the former…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Outcomes of Education, Postsecondary Education, Student Satisfaction
Lisa Roberts Carter – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Qualified teachers are the backbone of K-12 education. Unfortunately, fewer teachers are enrolling in teacher education programs and new teachers are quitting the profession at an alarming rate. This has placed a burden on school districts to implement out-of-the box measures to fill vacant slots. Such measures include offering provisional…
Descriptors: Teacher Shortage, Faculty Mobility, Teaching (Occupation), Labor Turnover
Hallock, Jin; Bjelland, Melissa; Barrington, Linda – Employment and Disability Institute, 2014
A disparity in pay exists between workers with and without disabilities. This gap persists even in analyses that control for a variety of factors and incorporate compensation benefits other than wages and salaries. To better understand the underlying sources of these differences, occupation-level data on employee skill and task requirements are…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Salary Wage Differentials, Job Skills, Occupations
Liu, Vivian Yuen Ting – Education Finance and Policy, 2020
Despite having been the largest source of financial aid to low-income college students in the United States, the traditional Pell Grant had one major limitation: If students enrolled in two semesters full-time, they would not have had any tuition support for the summer term of the same academic year. The year-round Pell (YRP) was implemented in…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Grants, Summer Schools, Federal Aid
McNally, Sandra – Centre for Economic Performance, 2020
The share of women achieving tertiary education has increased rapidly over time and now exceeds that of men in most OECD countries. However, women are severely under-represented in maths-intensive science fields, which are generally referred to as STEM (science, technology, engineering, and maths). The under-representation of women in these…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Higher Education, Postsecondary Education, STEM Education
Reddy, Vikash; Siqueiros, Michele; Itzkowitz, Michael – Campaign for College Opportunity, 2020
In a year that has upended higher education and created great uncertainty, it is more important than ever for students to understand which colleges payoff and how quickly. In April of 2020, Third Way released a report outlining the use of a Price-to-Earnings Premium (PEP) to evaluate the value of attending college and help students assess and…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, College Attendance, Public Colleges, Private Colleges
Tennessee Higher Education Commission, 2020
The Academic Supply and Occupational Demand report highlights the connections between degrees that are being produced in Tennessee and the jobs that are available in the state. This report is divided into four sections: (1) Expected Degrees presents projections of postsecondary credentials to be awarded by public, private, and proprietary…
Descriptors: Educational Demand, Supply and Demand, Demand Occupations, Labor Needs
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