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Uliana Furiv; Michaela Martin – UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning, 2022
The rapid worldwide expansion of enrolment in higher education (HE) has led to greater diversity among students, with more first-generation learners, HE returnees, and disadvantaged groups. Yet, inequalities in participation persist and have worsened during the COVID-19 pandemic. The implementation of flexible learning pathways (FLPs) can help HE…
Descriptors: College Students, Career Pathways, Education Work Relationship, Transitional Programs
Grigal, Meg; Papay, Clare; Wu, Xiaoying – Institute for Community Inclusion, 2021
In mid-March 2020, the emergence of COVID-19 throughout the United States led to programmatic changes at most higher education institutions, including those involved in implementing model demonstration projects known as Transition and Postsecondary Programs for Students with Intellectual Disability (TPSID) projects. This Insight Brief describes…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, College Students, Students with Disabilities
Council for Exceptional Children, 2022
This supplementary document supports the Council for Exceptional Children's (CEC) Secondary Transition Position Statement by providing definitions of terms for students and youth with disabilities, as well as definitions related to: (1) Career Development; (2) Employment; (3) Collaborative Systems; (4) Student Skills; and (5) Policy. [For…
Descriptors: Transitional Programs, Students with Disabilities, Definitions, Federal Legislation
Straw, Suzanne; Bradley, Eleanor – UK Department for Education, 2022
The T Level Transition Programme is a study programme targeted at students aged 16 to 19 years (or young people with Education and Healthcare Plans to age 24) who are not ready to start a T Level but have the potential to progress onto one following a tailored preparation programme. The Transition Programme is expected to be a full-time study…
Descriptors: Transitional Programs, Late Adolescents, Skill Development, Student Recruitment
Sevak, Purvi; Feeney, Kathleen; Honeycutt, Todd; Peterson, Emily – Mathematica, 2021
The Linking Learning to Careers (LLC) program offered high school students with disabilities an individualized and targeted approach to strategically plan for their futures. The Vermont Division of Vocational Rehabilitation (DVR) designed LLC to build on its usual services for high school students to emphasize unpaid and paid work-based learning…
Descriptors: High School Students, Students with Disabilities, Experiential Learning, Work Experience Programs
Theodos, Brett; Pergamit, Michael R.; Hanson, Devlin; Edelstein, Sara; Daniels, Rebecca; Srini, Tanaya – Urban Institute, 2017
Senior year of high school can be a pivotal time in a young person's life. For some, it is the last step on the path to college and work. For others, finding stable employment or attending university after high school is far from guaranteed. Urban Alliance, headquartered in Washington, DC, helps students at risk of becoming disconnected from work…
Descriptors: High School Seniors, Internship Programs, Mentors, College Readiness
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Hazelton, Pam; Malone, Molly; Gardner, Anne – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2009
Since 2001, the International Institute of Women in Engineering (IIWE) at EPF, Ecole d'ingenieurs generaliste, Sceaux, France, has conducted a 3 week short course for culturally and discipline diverse, recently graduated and final year engineering students. The aim of this course is to introduce young engineers to broad global concepts and issues…
Descriptors: Minicourses, Work Experience Programs, Engineering, Foreign Countries
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Landmark, Leena Jo; Ju, Song; Zhang, Dalun – Career Development for Exceptional Individuals, 2010
Since the transition movement in the 1980s, numerous transition practices have been developed. Kohler (1993) provided a comprehensive review and analysis of transition best practices and divided them into substantiated and implied practices based on the existence of empirical evidence. Since that review was published, the field of transition has…
Descriptors: Family Involvement, Job Training, Education Work Relationship, Daily Living Skills
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Klein, Markus; Weiss, Felix – Studies in Higher Education, 2011
Mandatory internships are implemented in higher education curricula in order to ease the labour market integration of graduates. This article evaluates the utility of mandatory internships in Germany by assessing the effect on graduates' transition from higher education to work. The authors examine whether these compulsory programmes provide extra…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Labor Market, College Graduates