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
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Articulating Roles and Responsibilities in the Transition Planning Process: A Practice Aimed at Figuring Out How to Work Together [PDF]
, 2004 It is clear that the intention of the Individual with Disabilities Education Act require both the Education Agency and the Vocational Rehabilitation Agency (VESID, in New York State) to jointly participate in the development of transition plans for ...
Golden, Thomas P., Murphy, Marianne
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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
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Intelligence, Personality Traits and Vocational Interests as Predictors of School Achievement
Psychological Topics, 2017 The aim of this study was to explore the extent to which intelligence, personality traits, and vocational interests are related to the general school achievement of elementary school children as well as to achievement in a specific group of school ...
Nada Krapić, Patricija Kuljanić
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Trends in the Payoff to Academic and Occupation-Specific Skills: the Short and Medium Run Returns to Academic and Vocational High School Courses for Non-College Bound Students [PDF]
, 1998 Using data from three longitudinal surveys of American high school students, I show that vocational courses helped non-college-bound-students to start their work life more successfully, in terms of steadier employment, higher wages and higher earnings. A
Mane, Ferran
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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 +4 more
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Jurnal Pendidikan Ilmu Sosial, 2017 The purpose of this research was to describe the profile of soft skill teaching model in the economic and business vocational school (SMK) especially in productive subject that appropriate with industry needs.
Budi Sutrisno
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I Am Haunted by the Question of What I Shall Do : The Vocational Struggles of a Teenage Girl in the 1940s as Seen through Her Diary Accounts [PDF]
, 2017 The immediate post-WWII era was a time of great transition and difficulty for many younger women. Among these difficulties for teenage women just graduating from high school loomed key vocational choices.
Mills, Randy
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Creating space(s) for learning in prison: Developing an andragogical framework
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Learning in prison is too often excluded from wider discussions of educational experiences, processes and impact. This paper proposes, for the first time, an iterative andragogical framework to conceptualise learning spaces within prison contexts.
Morwenna Bennallick +3 more
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The vocational development of a fifth form work exploration class : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in Applied Psychology at Massey University [PDF]
, 1975 The development of vocational maturity in a fifth form Work Exploration class was compared to that of a similar group of students who did not belong to the Work Exploration class.
Newbold, Anne Marie
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