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Todd Denham; Peter Fairbrother – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2025
Vocational education has a crucial role in regional labour markets, providing skills to meet local employment demand. In many regional areas of Australia, there has been a transition in employment from manufacturing and agriculture to service industries. The increase in employment has been most evident in the health and community services sector…
Descriptors: Career and Technical Education, Regional Planning, Economic Development, Geographic Regions
Matt Sigelman; Mark Schneider; Shrinidhi Rao; Scott Spitze; Debbie Wasden – American Enterprise Institute, 2025
With over 1.1 million credentials available but only 12 percent delivering significant wage gains, learners face a chaotic marketplace that lacks effective oversight. The right credentials can be transformative, as credentials in the top decile yield annual wage gains of nearly $5,000, increase career switching success sixfold, and boost the…
Descriptors: Credentials, Education Work Relationship, Income, Labor Market
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John D. Holst – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2025
This special issue calls us to examine the dictatorship of capital. The rule of capital in the labor/capital relation has always been a form of dictatorship. Therefore, we need to consider the particularities of this relation as they manifest today. In recent decades, the nature of the labor/capital relation, or capitalism, has generally been…
Descriptors: Social Systems, Political Attitudes, Social Change, Adult Education
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Kyle Reardon; Dawn A. Rowe; Deanne K. Unruh – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2025
Achieving successful employment outcomes is critical for individuals with disabilities (IWD). Employers' perspectives toward employability skills for entry-level employees with disabilities is an important factor in employment rates. This study investigated the psychometric properties of the Entry-Level Employability Skills and Behaviors (EL-ESB)…
Descriptors: Employer Attitudes, Job Skills, Employees, Disabilities
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Jesper Dahl Kelstrup; Jonas Videbæk Jørgensen; Magnus Paulsen Hansen – Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 2025
Background: The aspiration to use evidence to enhance the legitimacy and effectiveness of policies is widely shared but often falls short. A common explanation for failure is the presence of barriers to utilising evidence or the inadequacies of the evidence available to policy makers. Aims and objectives: The article examines how and why…
Descriptors: Public Service, Public Schools, Educational Change, Evidence Based Practice
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Julie Moschion; Cain Polidano – Education Finance and Policy, 2025
Workplace learning in vocational education and training (VET) is often claimed to be an important metric to define "high-quality" programs, but outcomes beyond initial employment are not well understood. In this study, we estimate outcomes of upper-secondary-school VET programs with different levels of workplace learning in…
Descriptors: Career and Technical Education, Workplace Learning, Educational Quality, Outcomes of Education