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Guth, Douglas J. – Community College Journal, 2021
Apprenticing in a skilled trade is an opportunity that has not been fully accessed by women. Per 2019 figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, women make up only about 12% of the nation's apprenticeships, despite comprising half the U.S. workforce. Additionally, female apprentices are concentrated mostly in social service occupations, as…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Females, Gender Bias, Equal Opportunities (Jobs)
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Xu, Fengqin; Ma, Liang; Wang, Yinhe; Yu, Jiang; Li, Dandan; Zhou, Guohui; Xu, Yuzi; Zhang, Hailin; Cao, Yang – SAGE Open, 2021
New graduate registered nurses (NGRNs) face a great challenge during the transition from school to clinical practice. We conducted a quasi-randomized controlled study to evaluate the effects of a new training mode for newly recruited NGRNs in a Chinese teaching hospital. A total of 150 NGRNs were recruited from a teaching hospital and assigned…
Descriptors: Job Training, Transitional Programs, Program Effectiveness, Innovation
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Kumar, Nripendra; Ganguly, Kunal K. – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2021
Purpose: This study aims to understand the impact of professionalism (PR) of the workplace learning support team on learning outcomes. The context of this study is an e-procurement system implementation. Management provides initial formal training (TR) to potential users of the system and also arranges informal learning support by deploying the…
Descriptors: Professionalism, Workplace Learning, On the Job Training, Outcomes of Education
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Bürgi, Regula; Gonon, Philipp – International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2021
Context: International scholarship and policy tend to depict national structures governing Vocational Education and Training (VET) as uniform and devoid of internal differences. This macro perspective neglects the numerous processes at the meso and micro level that shape the structure and content of VET. This article focusses on professional…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Governance, Professional Associations
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Niyadurupola, Verena; Esposito, Lucio – Journal of Education and Work, 2021
Activation policies are widely adopted to encourage labour market participation of unemployed youth, and yet they are poorly understood and monitored with regard to the causal mechanisms unfolding through their implementation. Activation schemes are often based on the carrot-and-stick logic informed by microeconomic job search theory, but…
Descriptors: Youth, Unemployment, Behavior Change, Attitude Change
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Hondonga, Jerald; Ramaligela, Manto Sylvia; Makgato, Moses – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2021
Technical skills are those specialized hands-on skills and competences needed to perform specific tasks. The study investigated the potential mismatch between Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) skills acquired in high school and workplace skills needed by Zimbabwean school-leaver migrants in Botswana. A mixed method research design…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Job Skills, Job Training
Jimenez, Laura; Lam, Livia – Center for American Progress, 2021
Despite the billions of dollars that the federal government spends each year on education and workforce training, education and labor market outcomes remain inequitable. Research shows that students do not receive sufficient information about what careers are available and which courses best lead to those options, so they waste time in courses…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation, Laws, Education Work Relationship
Hume, Sheila; Griffin, Tabatha – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2021
Efforts to contain COVID-19 through lockdowns and social distancing prompted swift changes to the delivery of vocational education and training (VET), with questions subsequently arising about the impact of this rapid transition on students and trainers/assessors. This report, the first of two reports for this project, explores the VET sector's…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Vocational Education, COVID-19, Pandemics
Osterman, Paul – Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2021
Employer-provided training is the dominant form of skill development among American workers, but when it comes to training that people can seek out on their own, community colleges are just one of many options that include job training programs run by government agencies, nonprofits, proprietary schools, online programs, and unions. This brief…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Adult Students, Student Employment, Use Studies
Lantos, Hannah; Hanft, Sam; DeMand, Alex; Redd, Zakia; Moore, Kristin A. – Child Trends, 2021
The majority of youth and young adults in the United States who are out of work are youth of color. To better reach and support all participants, many workforce development programs are increasingly embedding a racial and ethnic equity and inclusion (REEI) approach into job skills training initiatives. Launched by the Annie E. Casey Foundation in…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Job Training, Labor Force Development, Adult Education
UK Department for Education, 2021
Starting this Parliament, the United Kingdom (UK) Government is providing £2.5 billion (£3 billion when including Barnett funding for devolved administrations) for a new National Skills Fund (NSF) to help adults learn valuable skills and prepare for the economy of the future. The NSF builds on extensive user research and engagement with local…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Job Training, Retraining, National Programs
Anastasia Tracy Biggs – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This qualitative case study identified whether corporate managers can implement mobile technology as an employee-training tool. Little research exists regarding mobile technology bused as a training tool for employees in corporations. The lack of research led to exploratory research questions to examine how mobile technology is used as an…
Descriptors: Handheld Devices, Technology Integration, Job Training, Corporations
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Tiago Carvalho; Ana Correia Simões; Vasco Teles; António Henrique Almeida – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2024
Previous studies show that digital transition brings several benefits and challenges for companies. Among those challenges, particularly for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs), the main one is increased capacitation, from technical roles to management. Considering this, the main objective of this study is to identify the training needs and…
Descriptors: Small Businesses, Educational Needs, Ecology, Job Skills
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Allison M. Kroesch; Sarah Southall; Nancy Welsh-Young; Katherine N. Peeples – Behavioral Disorders, 2024
Paraprofessionals play a significant role in the education system. However, they often need more training on specific instructional strategies to use with the students they work with. In this study, we trained two paraprofessionals working in a self-contained U.S. elementary classroom for students with high-intensity behavioral support needs. Each…
Descriptors: Paraprofessional School Personnel, Self Contained Classrooms, Teaching Methods, Elementary Education
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Sara Rodríguez-Pérez; Daniel Barrientos-Sánchez; Mónica Torres-Sánchez; Pilar Pineda-Herrero – Education & Training, 2024
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to provide a comprehensive description and analysis of quality levels with regard to dual Vocational Education and Training (VET) at companies participating in this programme in Spain, with a specific focus on company size. Design/methodology/approach: The study is based on a quantitative cross-sectional…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Organization Size (Groups), Vocational Education, Apprenticeships
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