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Hiim, Hilde – Vocations and Learning, 2023
Collaboration between schools and enterprises in vocational education and training (VET) is a challenge in many countries, Norway included. There is a tendency to organise VET in separate theoretical and practical learning arenas that lack mutual coherence. This article presents the findings of a four-year action research study in which 30…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Vocational Education Teachers, Teacher Education
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Perez-Encinas, Adriana; Berbegal-Mirabent, Jasmina – Studies in Higher Education, 2023
This study investigates the factors that influence how long it takes for master's-level graduate students to find employment. The original contribution stems from questioning whether the structure and content of university programmes play a role in graduates' ability to secure jobs. To this end, we focus on three dimensions at three points in time…
Descriptors: National Surveys, Masters Programs, Employment Potential, College Graduates
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Kans, Mirka – Education Sciences, 2021
Engineers of today require a holistic understanding of the lifecycle of products and processes, from conceptualization to operations. Maintenance and reliability are areas receiving increased attention due to the contribution to sustainable industry practices. The related literature describes ways to strengthen the education with respect to…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Maintenance, Foreign Countries, Reliability
Damián Simón, Javier – Journal of Educational Psychology - Propositos y Representaciones, 2018
Currently, cross-cutting subjects are promoted in the engineering curriculum to give added value to their graduates and to meet the new demands of the labor market. The main objective of the research work was to know the opinions of the engineering students about the level of contribution of the administrative-economic subjects in their academic…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, College Students, Professional Identity, Student Attitudes
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Grooters, Saskia; Zaal, Emma; Ongena, Yfke; Gerkema, Menno – Cogent Education, 2022
The Science, Business and Policy Program (SBP) of the University of Groningen has been a work-based learning program for science master students since two decades. This program, a direct consequence of the Bologna declaration of education in Europe, has a distinctive position in European science curricula. Here, we use a web-based survey…
Descriptors: Alumni, Masters Programs, Science Education, International Cooperation
Maryland State Department of Education, 2006
Maryland Career Clusters are a resource for high schools as they reorganize into smaller learning communities. Instruction is organized around career themes, providing more students the opportunity to explore career choices while still in high school and enroll in pathway programs that enable them to successfully transition from high school to…
Descriptors: High Schools, Tech Prep, Postsecondary Education, Career Education