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Walsh, Courtney; Tyler, John – AIP Statistical Research Center, 2022
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, faculty members have faced a changed and challenging environment. They were faced with reallocating their time across various teaching, research, and service responsibilities; adjusting their teaching format, testing, and labs; and dealing with reduced access to the resources they needed to teach…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Physics, Astronomy, COVID-19
Delisle, Jason; Cohn, Jason – Urban Institute, 2022
When the Obama administration implemented the first gainful employment (GE) rule in 2014 to protect students from education credentials that lead to unaffordable debts, virtually all programs at public institutions passed the test. The Biden administration is developing its own GE rule after the Trump administration repealed the Obama-era rule. A…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Employment Level, Work Environment, Quality of Working Life
Halstead, Elizabeth O. – Wake County Public School System, 2012
During the spring of 2012, over 100,000 educators across the state took the North Carolina Teacher Working Conditions (TWC) survey. Wake County Public School System (WCPSS) teachers responded more positively to 46 of the 85 survey items in 2012 than did teachers statewide. On 14 items, WCPSS teachers' responses were less favorable than those of…
Descriptors: Work Environment, Teacher Surveys, Statistical Significance, Teacher Attitudes
Cedefop - European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training, 2012
The report confirms the importance of training for the European Union (EU) industrial policy. It demonstrates that sectors where training is firmly integrated in human resource practices have higher productivity gains. Such economic benefits are not only realised through developing workers' skills, but also thanks to higher job satisfaction and…
Descriptors: Productivity, Stakeholders, Vocational Education, Foreign Countries
Ryan, Chris; Sinning, Mathias – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2010
With life expectancy increasing, and changes to public policy aimed at encouraging older workers to stay in the workforce, the conditions under which people decide to retire have changed in recent years. This report describes the characteristics of those who continue to work beyond the age of 65. The findings show that two groups of workers, in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Aging (Individuals), Employment Patterns, Work Life Expectancy
Deke, John; Haimson, Joshua – Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., 2006
This report examines how indicators of academic and nonacademic competencies are related to postsecondary educational and labor market outcomes. Drawing on the National Education Longitudinal Study (NELS) surveys of students and teachers, the authors analyze how postsecondary earnings and the likelihood of attending and completing a postsecondary…
Descriptors: Mathematics Skills, Leadership, Competence, Locus of Control