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Brian Holzman; Jeehee Han; Kalena Cortes; Bethany Lewis; Irina Chukhray – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2024
This study investigates the role of college major choices in labor market outcomes, with a focus on racial minorities and immigrants. Drawing upon research on school-to-work linkages, we examine two measures, linkage, the connection between college majors and specific occupations in the labor market, and match, the alignment of workers'…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Majors (Students), Career Choice, Salary Wage Differentials
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Bronwen Dyson; Gaby Ramia – Higher Education Research and Development, 2024
Universities in anglophone countries responded to soaring numbers of non-traditional enrolments by expanding student support services. They have done so without being able to guarantee that international students will develop in their English language during a university degree (Humphreys, 2022, The need for English language development in…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Universities, Nontraditional Students
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Barry, Michael; Gomez, Rafael; Kaufman, Bruce E.; Wilkinson, Adrian; Zhang, Tingting – International Journal of Training and Development, 2020
This paper examines the determinants of job-related training and workplace voice. Using data from a unique 2016 cross-national survey of Australian, British, Canadian and American employees, the paper contrasts two classic formulations in the literature; (1) the neoclassical/human capital approach which predicts that individual characteristics…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Job Training, Work Environment, Foreign Countries
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Hussaini, Nilofer – International Journal of Higher Education, 2020
South Asian economies has witnessed very slow growth over the years and the gap has widened manifold between other nations of Asia particularly East Asian nations and South Asian nations. This paper examines co-integration between the economic growth and reach of higher education in South Asian nations explaining this disparity. The research…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Developing Nations, Higher Education, Correlation
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Demir, Selcuk – International Journal of Educational Methodology, 2018
This study analyses the relationships between schools' structural capital, teachers' organizational commitment and job satisfaction. 32 schools were selected randomly with cluster sampling method from the primary schools at Hatay city in the 2017- 2018 academic year. Of the 300 questionnaires that were distributed, 264 were found to be validated…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Job Satisfaction, Teacher Motivation, Foreign Countries
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Clarke, Marilyn – Studies in Higher Education, 2018
Graduate employability has become a key driver for universities in Australia and the UK. In response to increasing pressure from governments and employer groups, universities have adopted a range of generic skill-based learning outcomes which, when embedded into degree programs, are expected to increase graduate employability and therefore improve…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Employment Potential, College Graduates, Human Capital
Labaree, David F. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2018
Eminent historian David Labaree describes a gradual shift, over the last two centuries, in Americans' beliefs and attitudes about the goals of public education. At its founding, our school system was designed mainly to serve the public good, conceived at the time as an effort to create a unified citizenry. By the early 20th century, the schools…
Descriptors: Public Education, Educational Attitudes, Educational Objectives, Educational History
Cowin, Robert – University of British Columbia Press, 2018
The historical literature about postsecondary education in British Columbia, as in many jurisdictions, is fragmented. Scholarly works have tended to recount the development of a single institution or a single sector: colleges and universities, vocational colleges, apprenticeship, or continuing education. And not all sectors, whether comprised of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Postsecondary Education, Public Policy, Educational Policy
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Owusu-Agyeman, Yaw – International Review of Education, 2019
Adult learning remains an important component of educational systems in countries all over the world, particularly because it seeks to explain how adults obtain education through formal, non-formal and informal modes. While many education providers and researchers focus on increasing resource support and the development of the knowledge and skills…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Inclusion, Adult Education, Educational Policy
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Tarakanov, Vasilii V.; Ponomareva, Marina A. – European Journal of Contemporary Education, 2019
This paper examines the diverse activity of the International Network Center for Fundamental and Applied Research (INCFAR) in conjunction with the institution's fifth anniversary. The authors describe the process of creation and reorganization of the INCFAR Laboratories and discuss the Center's cooperation with other research-and-education…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Global Approach, Cooperation, Laboratories
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Chen, Yu April; Li, Ran; Hagedorn, Linda Serra – Journal of International Students, 2019
This study developed statistical models to forecast international undergraduate student enrollment at a Midwest university. The authors constructed a Seasonal Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average model with input variables to estimate future enrollment. This model reflected enrollment patterns by semester through highlighting seasonality.…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Foreign Students, Enrollment Projections, Models
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Donald, William E.; Baruch, Yehuda; Ashleigh, Melanie – Studies in Higher Education, 2019
This study focuses on the undergraduate self-perception of employability. We aimed to explore the impact of human capital, which incorporates social capital, cultural capital, psychological capital, scholastic capital, market-value capital, and skills. We also examined the role of careers advice and career ownership (protean career). Additionally,…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Employment Potential, Human Capital
Campbell, Anne C.; Mawer, Matt – Online Submission, 2019
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals include an explicit commitment to ''substantially expand'' the study abroad scholarships available to developing countries (Target 4b). Although this Target indicates a level of consensus about the benefits of scholarship programmes, it is made ambiguous by assuming coherence among many types of…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Study Abroad, Developing Nations, Human Capital
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Draissi, Zineb; Zhanyong, Qi; Raguindin, Princess Zarla Jurado – Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning, 2022
Purpose: This paper aims to understand the development track of skills mismatch research and discover the hidden internal connections between literature. Design/methodology/approach: The authors gathered data through scientometric quantitative analysis using CiteSpace. Specifically, this article applied basic analysis, journal cocitation analysis…
Descriptors: Job Skills, Outcomes of Education, Skill Development, Human Capital
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Mayai, Augustino Ting – Journal on Education in Emergencies, 2022
South Sudan was embroiled in a civil war from mid-December 2013 to mid-September 2018. Nearly 400,000 people died, and several million were displaced. The economy nearly collapsed as the nation's output was severely reduced, causing inflation to soar. While prior research on the immediate humanitarian crisis in South Sudan has focused on forced…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, War, Access to Education, Elementary School Students
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