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Ryan, Marie – Research in Higher Education Journal, 2023
Under the Saudi Vision 2030, the Ministry of Education (MoE) is responsible for educating Saudi Arabia's youth and preparing them for future employment. The recent expansion of higher education institutions in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia both in terms of quantity and quality demonstrates the government's belief that higher education is critical to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Job Skills, Employment Qualifications
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Pearce, Damien – International Journal of Training Research, 2019
Recent research has linked the development of self-directed learning of building and construction apprentices to the quality of relationship between the apprentice and their sponsor. This relationship was found to be critical for the apprentice to develop the capacity for self-directed learning. The sponsor as a more confident or experienced other…
Descriptors: Independent Study, Apprenticeships, Building Trades, Workplace Learning
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Greig, Malcolm – International Journal of Training and Development, 2019
Completing an apprenticeship has been shown to be critical to an individual's future employment, earnings and career development when compared with apprentices who do not complete. International research, notably in England, Australia and Germany, has identified factors specific to the apprentice, employer and training provision that are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Apprenticeships, Dropouts, Educational Attainment
Institute for Research on Poverty, 2019
Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs focus on learning and building skills directly related to work and labor market demands, often for a particular sector or occupation. Previously referred to by names such as manual arts or vocational education, CTE takes place at the secondary (high school), postsecondary (college), and adult education…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Outcomes of Education, Education Work Relationship, Income
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Muhrman, Karolina; Andersson, Per – Studies in the Education of Adults, 2022
The aim of this study is to describe and analyse how municipal adult education (MAE) in Sweden is enacted at the intersection of course organisation, student selection and course content. For this analysis, the data consist of a nationwide survey sent to Swedish municipalities, interviews with school leaders from 20 municipalities and in-depth…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Commercialization, Foreign Countries, Municipalities
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Schmid, Evi; Haukedal, Christiane Lingas – Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2022
Drawing on the literature on resilience in education, this article explores personal characteristics, abilities and behaviours that enable vulnerable students and apprentices to succeed in education and training. Despite high dropout rates in vocational education and training (VET) in most countries, little research on resilience in vocational…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), Vocational Education, Job Training, Foreign Countries
National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2022
"Apprentice and Trainee Outcomes 2021" provides a summary of the outcomes of apprentices and trainees who completed an apprenticeship or traineeship during 2020, with the data collected in mid-2021. The figures are derived from apprentices' and trainees' responses to the National Student Outcomes Survey (SOS), which is an annual survey…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Outcomes of Education, Apprenticeships, Trainees
Colleges Ontario, 2022
This report shares data on college resources in Ontario as they relate to: (1) College system revenues and expenses; (2) Trends in college funding; (3) Human resources trends; and (4) Student financial aid. Like many organizations around the world, Ontario's colleges had to adapt to a challenging and unpredictable environment during the pandemic.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Colleges, Educational Resources, Educational Finance
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Hofmann, Claudia; Müller, Xenia; Krauss, Annette; Häfeli, Kurt – International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2021
Context: There are currently two low-threshold vocational education and training (VET) options in Switzerland for young people at risk: A two-year programme for a Federal VET certificate and a practical training programme designed for young people with special needs. In the present study, we looked at transitions from these programmes to the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Job Training, Education Work Relationship
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Lakshminarayanan, Srinivasan; Rao, N. J. – Cogent Education, 2021
CS1 courses are designed in Indian Institutions as a lecture course of three to four credits and one credit lab course. The issues related to curriculum design, instruction design, and students' learning manifest themselves as issues in the lab programs. This situation presents the lab instructor with an opportunity to understand and address the…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Teaching Methods, Programming, Programming Languages
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Sauli, Florinda – Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2021
This study aims to investigate the Swiss initial vocational education and training (IVET) partnership from the perspective of several stakeholders on the ground. Collaboration between stakeholders is essential in dual IVET to connect school- and workplace-based learning and to ensure the quality of the entire system. However, such collaboration…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Partnerships in Education, Vocational Education, School Business Relationship
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Altreiter, Carina – Journal of Education and Work, 2021
The article investigates mechanisms of class reproduction by looking at school-to-work transitions of young blue-collar workers from Austria. The study adopts a Bourdieusian explanatory framework to show how working-class kids are guided towards picking up apprenticeship training instead of pursuing further education. Two classed dispositions are…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Working Class, Education Work Relationship, Blue Collar Occupations
Payne, Jonathan – Jobs for the Future, 2020
An underdeveloped talent supply pipeline has resulted in a skills gap and a skilled labor shortage in the manufacturing sector across the United States. This is potentially the result of a lack of diversity in educational opportunity offered to students, an emphasis on college enrollment rates as a high school performance metric, and the…
Descriptors: Manufacturing Industry, Apprenticeships, Outcomes of Education, Labor Force Development
Circelli, Michelle; Stanwick, John – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2020
This report examines whether a distinction can be made in Australian VET between initial vocational education and training (IVET) and continuing vocational education and training (CVET), as applies in a number of other countries. Assisting students to more effectively identify and undertake courses that will optimise their outcomes from VET is the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Professional Continuing Education, Definitions
Krause, Terri S. – ProQuest LLC, 2020
This study explores the perceptions of critical stakeholders as to the viability of a fully remote apprenticeship delivery system (FRADS), as well as its ability to serve as a functionally equivalent path of inclusion for access-limited populations. One of the first recorded pedagogical models, apprenticeship was also one of the first to be…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Access to Education, Distance Education, Program Effectiveness
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