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Mustafa, Nageen; Tsaroucha, Anna; Le Mesurier, Nick; Benbow, Susan Mary; Kingston, Paul – Educational Gerontology, 2013
Educating and training the dementia workforce is a global challenge, given the expected increasing number of people living with dementia across the world as the population ages. Two projects from the UK (one regionally and one locality based) investigated courses available to the workforce and mapped the content of identified courses against a…
Descriptors: Dementia, Foreign Countries, Labor Force Development, Course Content
Klein-Collins, Rebecca; Baylor, Elizabeth – Center for American Progress, 2013
An educated workforce is one of the bedrocks not just of a strong American middle class, but also of a strong U.S. economy. To ensure that America has the most competitive global workforce, President Barack Obama articulated a goal that, by 2020, every American should continue their educational training after high school so that the United States…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Profiles, Educational Policy, Postsecondary Education
Goolsby, Annie J. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study utilized a contemporary approach to qualitative research, the descriptive survey design, to discover whether a diverse workforce was a major influence in producing a rural Blue Ribbon School. The population represented the school systems of a county located in the West South Central region of the United States. In this study, the terms…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Surveys, Labor Force, Rural Schools
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Kline, Jodie; Walker-Gibbs, Bernadette – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2015
Graduate teachers' preparedness for working in rural settings are mediated by the development of pedagogical expertise, professional engagement with parents and the community, and broader notions of preparation to teach in rural contexts. The Studying the Effectiveness of Teacher Education (SETE) project is a four-year longitudinal study tracking…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Schools, Teacher Education Programs, Graduate Students
Allen, I. Elaine; Seaman, Jeff – Babson Survey Research Group, 2015
This report is the twelfth annual report on the state of online learning in U.S. higher education. The survey is designed, administered and analyzed by the Babson Survey Research Group, with data collection conducted in partnership with the College Board and additional data from the National Center for Education Statistics' Integrated…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Higher Education, Distance Education, Online Courses
DeSchryver, David A. – Digital Promise, 2015
This report argues that this is a promising time for entrepreneurs and developers to enter the adult learning market. Economic and labor trends are applying unprecedented pressure on policymakers to think differently. Federal, and in turn state, policies are shifting. The adaptation of K-12 and postsecondary education technologies (ed-tech) to the…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Adult Education, Adult Learning
Wendler, Cathy; Bridgeman, Brent; Markle, Ross; Cline, Fred; Bell, Nathan; McAllister, Patricia; Kent, Julia – Educational Testing Service, 2012
Graduate education in the United States plays a critical role in the success of the U.S. workforce and economy, attracting and producing influential researchers, innovators, and leaders. U.S. graduate schools are the environments in which students acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to compete in the global economy and solve problems of…
Descriptors: Graduate Study, Education Work Relationship, Employment Patterns, Graduate Surveys
Cooper, Donna; Hersh, Adam; O'Leary, Ann – Center for American Progress, 2012
As a collaborative effort of the Center for American Progress and The Center for the Next Generation, this report examines where the United States is today and how that compares with two of its fiercest competitors for the jobs and thought leadership of the future, China and India. This report shows that their governments have embarked on…
Descriptors: Illiteracy, Foreign Countries, Public Education, Family Programs
National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2012
The Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth (LSAY) program studies the progress of several groups of young Australians as they move from school into post-secondary education and work. This technical paper contains the frequency tables for the LSAY 2009 cohort Wave 3 (2011) data set. [For the related questionnaire, see ED536306.]
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, National Surveys, Longitudinal Studies, Educational Attainment
Barakos-Cartwright, Rebekah B. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Classified employees comprise thirty two percent of the educational workforce in school districts in the state of California. Acknowledging these employees as a viable and untapped resource within the educational system will enrich job satisfaction for these employees and benefit the operations in school sites. As acknowledged and valued…
Descriptors: Employees, Nonprofessional Personnel, Job Satisfaction, School Districts
Wagner, Margo, Ed. – Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2012
Looking through the lens of AASHE Bulletin stories in 2011, this year's review reveals an increased focus on higher education access, affordability, and success; more green building efforts than ever before; and growing campus-community engagement on food security, among many other achievements. Contributors include James Applegate (Lumina…
Descriptors: Colleges, Higher Education, Educational Facilities Design, Wastes
Drake, Pat; Noyes, Andrew; Wake, Geoff – Australian Association for Research in Education (NJ1), 2012
This article explores the relationship between school mathematics qualifications and the transition into employment. As part of a large-scale, three-year independent evaluation of pilot qualifications in 14-19 school mathematics, all 39 Sector Skills Councils and Employment Skills Boards in the UK were invited to provide evidence regarding their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interviews, Mathematics Education, Mathematics Skills
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Pavlin, Samo; Svetlicic, Marjan – Hacettepe University Journal of Education, 2012
This paper studies the relationship between competitiveness and higher education systems in Europe. It explores whether more competitive countries have developed more labour-market-oriented systems of higher education (HE) that thereby give their graduates greater short term employability potential. Based on and a large-scale survey among 45.000…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Employment Potential, Competition
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Shuck, Brad; Herd, Ann Mogan – Human Resource Development Review, 2012
As the use of workplace knowledge economies increases and emerging motivational-state variables such as employee engagement become more widely used, current frameworks of leadership are undergoing changes in perspective and practice. Moreover, while shifts in workplace dynamics have occurred in practice for some time, scholars are now calling for…
Descriptors: Work Environment, Social Change, Emotional Intelligence, Transformational Leadership
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Humble, Aine M.; Keefe, Janice M.; Auton, Greg M. – International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 2012
Using the concept of "retirement congruency" (RC), which takes into account greater variation in retirement decisions (low, moderate, or high RC) than a dichotomous conceptualization (forced versus chosen), multinomial logistic regression was conducted on a sample of caregivers from the 2002 Canadian General Social Survey who were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Retirement, Decision Making, Personal Autonomy
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