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Sushentsev, Artem – Comparative Professional Pedagogy, 2014
The importance of professional development of labor force directly in the workplace has been proved. It's revealed that this is due not only to questions of advanced training, but also to the improvement of the situation on the labor market of unskilled groups of citizen. The current labor market recognizes the value and importance of people.…
Descriptors: Labor Force Development, Professional Development, Workplace Learning, Labor Market
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McDaniel, Anne – FIRE: Forum for International Research in Education, 2014
In recent decades, a dramatic shift occurred in higher education throughout the world. Women now enroll in and complete more education than men in the majority of countries. Using a lagged cross-sectional design on a dataset of 75 countries from 1990 to 2008, this study examines the predictors of the current gender gap in tertiary enrollment. I…
Descriptors: Females, Higher Education, Enrollment, Postsecondary Education
Gallagher, Sean – New England Journal of Higher Education, 2014
Over the past decade, enrollment in professional master's degree programs has grown substantially, and this category has outpaced the overall recent flattening of college enrollment. Today, 5 million more U.S. adults hold a master's degree compared with a decade ago, and in some circles the master's is being referred to as "the…
Descriptors: Masters Degrees, Credentials, Education Work Relationship, Labor Market
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Smith, Erica; Kemmis, Ros Brennan; Comyn, Paul – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2014
This paper reports on aspects of a recent project carried out for the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the World Bank, which was designed to feed into the process of updating and expanding India's apprenticeship system. The apprenticeship system in India is extremely small for the country's population, even taking into account the high…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Apprenticeships, Social Justice, Labor Market
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Muiya, Bernard Munyao – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2014
Globally, decline in employment has affected the youth more compared to other cohorts with youth in developing countries being particularly hard hit. There have been various interventions by the Kenyan government to address the challenge of youth employment through human capital development like the Youth Enterprise Development Fund (YEFD).…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Unemployment, Youth, Urban Areas
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Johnson, Evelyn; Semmelroth, Carrie Lisa – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2014
There is currently little consensus on how special education teachers should be evaluated. The lack of consensus may be due to several reasons. Special education teachers work under a variety of complex conditions, with a very heterogeneous population, and support student progress toward a very individualized set of goals. In addition, special…
Descriptors: Special Education Teachers, Special Education, Teacher Evaluation, Observation
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Bergmo-Prvulovic, Ingela – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2014
This paper explores the essential understanding and underlying perspectives of career implicit in EU career guidance policy in the twenty-first century, as well as the possible implications of these for the future mission of guidance. Career theories, models and concepts that serve career guidance are shaped on the twentieth-century industrial…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Career Guidance, Global Approach, Knowledge Economy
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Galliott, Natal'ya; Graham, Linda J. – International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2014
In this paper, we seek to operationalize Amartya Sen's concept of human capability to guide a scholarly investigation of student career choice capability. We begin by outlining factors affecting youth labour markets in Australia; a prosperous country that is affected by a "two-speed" national economy. We then examine recent government…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Career Choice, Student Empowerment
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López-Moreno, Cristina – Research-publishing.net, 2017
This chapter will examine the employability profile of outwardly mobile British graduates and the ways in which their international skillset fits the UK labour market. It will draw upon several recent reports to highlight the current shortage of professionals with such global skills. In this context, the chapter will demonstrate that…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Employment Potential, Foreign Countries, College Graduates
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Kuhlee, Dina – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2015
Compared with England, where new implementations and programmes in the education system are often introduced at a striking pace, the German education system seems to be rather stable in its features and less dynamic in terms of reform and change. Hence, a phenomenon called "reform bottleneck" ("Reformstau") has often been…
Descriptors: Governance, Vocational Education, Educational Policy, Apprenticeships
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Lehmann, Wolfgang; Taylor, Alison; Hamm, Zane – Journal of Education and Work, 2015
Most Canadian provinces offer high-school apprenticeships to facilitate students' transitions to skilled work and address employers' concerns about labour shortages. Using interview data with graduates from high-school apprenticeships in Alberta and Ontario, we analyse the impact participation in these programmes has had on their educational and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Apprenticeships, Employment Opportunities, High School Students
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Adebisi, M. A.; Akinkuowo, F. O. – African Higher Education Review, 2015
Learning at the tertiary level of education could be described as being effective and functional, if it results in bringing about the expected transformation in the lives of its graduates over a period of time. Moreover effective learning should produce graduates who are adequately informed and technically equipped to become productive workers and…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Employment Potential, Risk, Entrepreneurship
California Community Colleges, Chancellor's Office, 2015
The California Community Colleges serve more than 2.1 million students and is the largest system of higher education in the nation. The state's 112 colleges provide workforce training, teach basic math and English, and prepare students for transfer to four-year universities and colleges. Senate Bill 852 established the Career Technical Education…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Vocational Education, Educational Finance, Financial Support
Moodie, Gavin; Wheelahan, Leesa; Fredman, Nick; Bexley, Emmaline – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2015
The authors look at the roles that vocations, vocational streams and productive capabilities can play in improving links between mid-level qualifications and occupational outcomes. Support for vocational streams and productive capabilities varied by industry but there is the potential to progress these concepts in each of the industries…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Labor Market, Employment Qualifications, Stakeholders
Groves, Garrett; Palmer, Iris – NGA Center for Best Practices, 2015
Governors plays a central role in ensuring that public educational institutions provide students with the knowledge and abilities required for a successful life and career. The systemic use of data from education and labor markets informs governors and other policymakers of the effectiveness and efficiency of their existing postsecondary systems…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Education Work Relationship, Labor Market, Data
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