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Jennifer L. Nelson; Steven P. Vallas – Grantee Submission, 2021
Recent research on racial inequality at work offers fruitful new insights on the organizational conditions that foster racial segregation, racial disparities in wages, and racial hierarchies in the labor market and the workplace. Much less is known, however, about the specifically occupational influences that impinge on equitable work outcomes by…
Descriptors: Racial Bias, Work Environment, Salary Wage Differentials, Employment Practices
Allison BrckaLorenz; Heather Haeger; Christen Priddie – Journal for STEM Education Research, 2021
The lack of diversity in STEM professions is an ongoing concern for the US both in terms of social justice and in having a globally competitive workforce. This study provides information for campus leaders to be proactive in considering a wide array of identities to meet the needs of students beyond attending to structural forms of diversity. Data…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, STEM Education, College Students, Inclusion
AlGhamdi, Rayed – Education and Information Technologies, 2019
Improving the King Abdulaziz University (KAU) Information Technology (IT) internship training program is critical for students. This internship is the only requirement in the current IT curriculum that attempts to build a bridge of connection for students. A solid bridge is expected to maximize the confidence of students in regard to discovering…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Internship Programs, Foreign Countries, Curriculum Development
Schröder, Thomas – International Journal of Training Research, 2019
This article discusses changes in the labor market in reference to industrial development and outlines perspectives for a set of competencies as an overall objective for technical and vocational education and training (TVET). Essential steps toward achieving this objective include a praxis-oriented approach in vocational didactics and its…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Educational Development, Labor Market
Alexander, Rosie; McCabe, Graham; De Backer, Mark – Education Development Trust, 2019
Effective careers advice is impossible without good quality labour market information. Careers professionals and advisers, the people whose job it is to offer and support careers advice in the community or in schools, are key to success. Vital to their work is access and familiarity with a robust and sophisticated body of intelligence about the…
Descriptors: Occupational Information, Information Sources, Access to Information, Labor Market
Landers, Patrick, Ed. – Institute for Research on Poverty, 2019
Based on research presented at an Institute for Research on Poverty workshop, this brief explores the evolving structure and goals of high school Career and Technical Education (CTE) in response to changing labor market conditions. Participants explored the growing concern that all students may not have equal access to these innovative…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Vocational Education, High Schools, Access to Education
Farmer, Lesley S. J. – International Research and Review, 2020
Sweden has made great strides in school librarianship, particularly in the area of legislation and policy. School libraries are now mandated, and curriculum indicates where school librarians should play a role. School libraries must be accountable to two sets of agencies, and oversight mainly occurs at the municipal level. The main challenge…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Libraries, Educational Legislation, Educational Policy
Hall, Michael – Power and Education, 2020
Graduate employability has become a central part of the policy debate on the relevance and value of higher education in Europe, often associated with meeting the economic demands of society. This has led to a sense of institutional vulnerability to the vagaries of market forces and public opinion, leading some higher education institutions to…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Employment Potential, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries
Hirschl, Noah; Smith, Christian Michael – Research in Higher Education, 2020
Recent work has broadened the scope of school effectiveness research to consider not only academic achievement but also other outcomes, especially college attendance. This literature has argued that high schools are an important determinant of college attendance, with some contending that high schools matter more for college attendance than for…
Descriptors: Geographic Location, School Effectiveness, College Attendance, High Schools
Jackson, Denise; Tomlinson, Michael – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2020
This paper addresses the limited empirical analysis of higher education students' perceptions of contemporary labour market demands. It explores their perspectives on the health of the graduate labour market, what factors determine these and how their perceptions relate to self-perceived employability, career proactivity, career control and…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Attitudes, Labor Market, Employment Potential
Zamfir, Ana-Maria; Militaru, Eva; Mocanu, Cristina; Lungu, Eliza Olivia – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2020
While there is a rich literature on the school-to-work transition in developed countries, an equally robust literature is lacking for post-communist countries. We analyse the patterns of labour market entry of higher education graduates in several formerly communist countries by drawing on the HEGESCO data set, which provides information on the…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Cross Cultural Studies, Labor Market, Social Change
Sevilla, María-Paola; Farías, Mauricio – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2020
One of the most salient characteristics of the recent evolution of Chilean higher education system is its rapid expansion. Conversely, the competencies required for the workforce have been slower to emerge. This paper examines the incidence of qualification and skill mismatches across different populations, across age groups, gender, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adults, Job Skills, Employment Qualifications
Fogg, Neeta P.; Harrington, Paul E. – New England Journal of Higher Education, 2020
Fear of the coronavirus has shut down all but essential businesses. Economists have projected that unemployment could rise as high as 20%, compared with 3.5% this past February 2020. A survey conducted in mid-April by Strada Education Network found 62% of Americans worried about losing their jobs and 34% believed they would need more education to…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Labor Market, College Choice, College Bound Students
Ganguli, Ina; Gaulé, Patrick; Cugalj, Danijela Vuletic – W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2020
We investigate whether excessively optimistic beliefs play a role in the persistent demand for doctoral and postdoctoral training in science. We elicit the beliefs and career preferences of doctoral students through a novel survey and randomize the provision of structured information on the true state of the academic market and information through…
Descriptors: Bias, Beliefs, Graduate Students, Science Careers
Hoffman, Nancy, Ed.; Collins, Michael Lawrence, Ed. – Harvard Education Press, 2020
"Teaching Students About the World of Work" argues that educational institutions--especially two-year and four-year public institutions serving low-income students--need to make the topic of employment a central element in their educational offerings. Indeed, the book demonstrates that a far greater emphasis on teaching students about…
Descriptors: Career Education, Low Income Students, Community Colleges, Labor Market