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The Objective Structured Clinical Exam (OSCE): A qualitative study exploring the healthcare student’s experience [PDF]

, 2012
The paper relates to delivering vocational higher education to prospective building surveyors. Preparing students for the workplace requires inclusion of academic knowledge, workplace skills and practical vocational experience.
Fidment, Susan
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Fostering medication review competence of pharmacy students: An assessment by students and their preceptors after advanced‐level practical internship

British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, EarlyView.
Aims The aim of this study was to introduce a new assessment method for pharmacy students' real‐life competence in reviewing medications after obligatory advanced‐level practical internship in Finland. Methods The new medication review (MR) competence assessment method consisted of (1) a self‐assessment by pharmacy students and (2) a performance ...
Katja Leiman, Aleksi Westerholm, Tero Vahlberg, Noora Lias, Tanja Lindholm, Marja Airaksinen   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Education policy, vocational training, and the youth in Sub-Saharan Africa [PDF]

, 2014
Technical, vocational education, and training has remained an explosive topic because it can create a divided society in terms of education and the benefits associated with it.
Oketch, Moses
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Pathways to employment: Subject choice, job requirements, and early employment outcomes for UK undergraduates

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Higher education in the United Kingdom has dramatically expanded in recent decades, along with questions about its effectiveness in preparing graduates for the labour market. With rising tuition fees and increasing competition for graduate jobs, many students opt to study ‘professional’ subjects—fields closely tied to specific professions ...
Sarah Pemberton
wiley   +1 more source

Ethnic Differences in Gender‐Typical Occupational Orientations Among Adolescents in Germany

Social Inclusion, 2022
We illuminate the socio‐cultural embeddedness of adolescents to explain gender‐typical occupational orientations (GTOO) from an intersectional perspective. We investigate whether and why immigrant and native youths differ in their GTOO.
Alexandra Wicht, Matthias Siembab
doaj   +1 more source

Understanding international students' agency in developing employability: Case study of a post‐1992 university in the United Kingdom

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Employability remains a critical issue for international students in the United Kingdom. This study adopts the Employability Agency Framework proposed by Pham et al. to explore how a group of international students actively exercised their agency to enhance their employability during their Master's studies in the United Kingdom.
Hoang Nguyen, Ming Cheng
wiley   +1 more source

International student agency in academic self‐formation: Mobility as agency situated within knowledge structures

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract With growing attention to student agency in academic and policy discourse, international education has become a prominent context for examining how students navigate new cultural, academic, linguistic and social environments. However, much of this discussion attributes student agency to the ‘international’ aspect, while overlooking the ...
Soyoung Lee
wiley   +1 more source

Achieving equity through 'gender autonomy': the challenges for VET policy and practice [PDF]

, 2006
This paper is based on research carried out in an EU Fifth Framework project on 'Gender and Qualification'. The research partners from five European countries investigated the impact of gender segregation in European labour markets on vocational ...
Bates I., Brine J., Cameron C., Cockburn C., Connell R. W., Evans K., Faulkner W., Heidegger G., Heikkinen A., Heikkinen A., Hoffmann B., Hoffmann B., Kampmeier A., Karen Evans, Kleinan E., Newton P., Niemeyer B., Nijhof W. J., Nijhof W. J., Noon M., Roth H., Singh R., Skeggs B., Williams C.   +23 more
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Career motivations and perceptions of teaching of 16–19‐year‐olds in England and Wales

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract The current study provides an understanding of career‐related motivations of 16–19‐year‐olds in schools and A‐level colleges in England and Wales. The 672 participants (62% women) were asked to complete a modified version of the Motivations for Career Choice and the Persistence Research in Science and Engineering scales and provide comments on
Sophie Thompson‐Lee, Rebecca, J. S. Snell, Hui Wang, Robert M. Klassen   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

From the reality of work to grounded work-based learning in German vocational education and training: Background, concept and tools [PDF]

, 2015
The "Riga Conclusions" of the European Ministries of Education of 22 June 2015 for the orientation of vocational education and training in Europe are promoting work-based learning as one of five "medium-term deliverables" for the next five years.
Gessler, Michael, Howe, Falk
core   +5 more sources