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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
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Tertiary education: a quick guide to key internet links [PDF]
This Quick Guide provides key internet links to information about: general tertiary education resources, higher education, vocational education and training (VET), international students, adult and community education, and international ...
Carol Ey, Jonathon Guppy
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The Potential of Peer Guidance to Empower Migrants for Employment
European Journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults, 2020 Peerness is a common approach to learning, especially in Nordic adult education, but is increasingly adopted by European Union (EU)-funded projects that aim to improve migrants’ employability.
Satu Heimo +3 more
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Being a Vocational Teacher in Sweden: Navigating the Regime of Competence for Vocational Teachers
International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2022 Context: Vocational teachers are called to constantly meet the upcoming needs in social and working life. In Sweden, the high demand for vocational teachers has led to their recruitment in the early stages of vocational teacher studies or even before ...
Sofia Antera
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The Workforce Investment Act and the One-Stop Delivery System [PDF]
, 2013 [Excerpt] The Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (WIA; P.L. 105-220) is the primary federal program that supports workforce development. WIA includes five titles: • Title I—Workforce Investment Systems—provides job training and related services to ...
Bradley, David H
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Barriers to participation in vocational orientation programmes among prisoners [PDF]
, 2015 This study investigates the barriers to prisoners’ participation in vocational education, as well as the predictors of different types of barriers. Survey data derived from a project in a remand prison in Belgium (N=468) provided the empirical evidence ...
Brosens, Dorien +3 more
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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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Study on adult career planning on adult education program and assessment of adaptive design model
MATEC Web of Conferences, 2018 This study explores adults‘ on-the-job current career planning and the selection trends of future development as the criteria for a training program design for adult education and the basis of the design model of adaptive assessment.
Kao I-Chan
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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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Journal of Infrastructure Policy and DevelopmentThis study investigates the impact of various educational and social factors on the digital skills of vocational education and training (VET) students, emphasizing the significance of continuous skill development in the digital age.
Ioannis Zervas, Emmanouil Stiakakis
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