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Du Toit, David; Koorsen, Gerrit – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2022
Biochemistry encompasses a broad range of life science disciplines. Unlike more vocational disciplines such as pharmacy or medicine, the career path associated with biochemistry is less clearly defined. An important question is whether the skills set provided by post-graduate biochemistry education, defined as BSc (Hons.), MSc, or PhD degrees, is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Outcomes of Education, Biochemistry, Graduate Students
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Didier, Nicolás – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2022
Industrialised countries are currently facing the knowledge-to-digital economy transition. That transition is strictly defined by how the labour market is organised and operates in the national economy. Some old to new phenomena are determinants of those dimensions, such as educational mismatch, credential inflation, and job polarisation. These…
Descriptors: Labor Market, Computers, Foreign Countries, Labor Demands
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Anderson, Kaitlin P.; Cowen, Joshua M.; Strunk, Katharine O. – Education Finance and Policy, 2022
Over the past decade, many states enacted substantial reforms to teacher-related laws and policies. In Michigan, the state legislature implemented requirements for teacher evaluation based partly on student achievement, reduced tenure protections, and restricted the scope of teacher collective bargaining. Some teacher advocates view such reform as…
Descriptors: Public School Teachers, Labor Market, Educational Change, Academic Achievement
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Mihut, Georgiana – Studies in Higher Education, 2022
Do employers prioritize university prestige above an applicant's skills in the hiring process? To distinguish between the effect of human capital in the hiring process from the effect of the name of the graduating university--while controlling for networking effects--2,400 fictitious applications were submitted to IT and accounting jobs in the US,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reputation, Universities, Job Applicants
Julius, Jenna; Hillary, Jude; Faulkner-Ellis, Henry – National Foundation for Educational Research, 2022
This technical report provides an overview of the datasets and methodology used in the main report, "Investigating the Potential Use of Long-Term School and College Destination Measures. Final Report" (see ED619071). The purpose of the main report is to investigate the potential for using Department for Education's (DfE's) Longitudinal…
Descriptors: Labor Market, Outcomes of Education, Young Adults, Foreign Countries
Ash, Katherine; Bergson-Shilcock, Amanda; Webber, Alison; Mortrude, Judy; Schill, Aaron – National Governors Association, 2022
The Digital Equity Act (DEA), a provision within the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (Public Law 117-58), includes a historic federal investment to promote digital equity, literacy, and inclusion. In particular, the State Digital Equity Capacity Grant Program will award nearly $1.5 billion in federal funds to states to support the…
Descriptors: Data Use, Technological Literacy, Data Collection, Story Telling
Johnathan G. Conzelmann; Steven W. Hemelt; Brad Hershbein; Shawn M. Martin; Andrew Simon; Kevin M. Stange – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2022
This paper introduces a new measure of the labor markets served by colleges and universities across the United States. About 50 percent of recent college graduates are living and working in the metro area nearest the institution they attended, with this figure climbing to 67 percent in-state. The geographic dispersion of alumni is more than twice…
Descriptors: Labor Market, College Graduates, Social Mobility, Outcomes of Education
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Chatterjee, Soma – Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, 2019
Skilled immigrants' labour-market integration is a long-standing public policy issue that has generated a substantial body of scholarship in Canada. This article shares the scholarly concern while stepping off from the hegemony of training and learning as a solution for skilled immigrants' challenges in the labour market. Drawing on a larger…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Immigrants, Labor Market, Nationalism
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James, David – Journal of Education and Work, 2020
This paper considers the potential significance of a concept of lifelong learning in the context of digital disruption. Having noted some contemporary contrasts in the visibility of lifelong learning policy, it revisits the earlier more widespread dominance of the concept, identifying not only variety but also tensions that are inherent and…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Government Role
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Sundararaman, Indumathi – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2020
Through a case study of a girl student, this paper attempts to draw linkages between science classroom, gender and the larger discourse on the economy and job market. The ideal science student is constructed through classroom interactions, and a particular ideal is fostered which is highlighted in this paper. This paper sets itself to locate the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Education, Student Experience, Females
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Rubb, Stephen – Education Economics, 2020
This paper analyzes the labor market impact of the Great Recession on overeducated and undereducated workers. In March 2008, the U.S. economy was near full employment with an unemployment rate of 4.8 percent. The next year, the unemployment rate peaked at 10.0 percent. The pace of the economic decline allows us to observe the workers'…
Descriptors: Economic Climate, Overachievement, Underachievement, Education Work Relationship
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Bittmann, Felix; Zorn, Viktoria Sophie – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2020
Mandatory and voluntary internships present widespread opportunities for graduates of tertiary education to gain relevant work- and on-the-job experience during their years of study. However, it is questionable if these actually have positive effects on outcomes (income, job mismatch, and overall job satisfaction). By estimating linear and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Graduates, Outcomes of Education, Internship Programs
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Schüller, Jessica – Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education, 2020
Transnational education (TNE) is predicted to play a large role in the future landscape of international higher education. Binational universities are transnational, higher education institutions formed by two governments constituting a collaborative form of TNE. Despite career factors being one of the primary motivators for participating in TNE…
Descriptors: International Programs, International Cooperation, Higher Education, Labor Market
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Marshall, Emily C.; Underwood, Anthony – Journal of Economic Education, 2020
The authors of this article examine trends in the economics discipline regarding the classification of some undergraduate economics majors, i.e., econometrics and quantitative economics degrees, as STEM. According to the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), the number of institutions conferring undergraduate econometrics and…
Descriptors: Economics Education, Educational Trends, Undergraduate Study, STEM Education
Fogg, Neeta; Harrington, Paul; Khatiwada, Ishwar; Hanover, Larry – ETS Center for Research on Human Capital and Education, 2020
Part-time workers' earnings are much lower than those of their full-time counterparts, a difference often referred to as the part-time wage penalty. The mean hourly wage of part-time workers is only two-thirds that of full-time workers. Despite this wage penalty, there were no significant differences between part- and full-time workers in literacy…
Descriptors: Part Time Employment, Wages, Human Capital, Labor Market
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