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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
Ferrández-Berrueco, Reina; Sánchez-Tarazaga, Lucía – Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning, 2021
Purpose: The aim of this paper is to report the motivations and perceived benefits of companies that collaborate with universities by offering student work-placement positions. Design/methodology/approach: The study follows a mixed methodology based on (1) a literature review on the topic, (2) a case study survey including companies that…
Descriptors: School Business Relationship, Partnerships in Education, College Students, Job Placement
European University Association, 2021
The 2020 EUA Learning & Teaching Thematic Peer Group on "Meeting skills and employability demands" explored how universities can ensure that their study programmes reflect the dynamic demands of society and the labour market, and address skills demands throughout the student experience. In this paper, employability is considered as…
Descriptors: Job Skills, Employment Potential, Universities, Labor Market
Niska, Miira – European Educational Research Journal, 2021
Entrepreneurship promotion in higher education is a highly controversial issue. Yet entrepreneurship education is nowadays part of the education system all over Europe. In order to be legitimate, entrepreneurship education implemented in higher education institutions is expected to serve multiple stakeholders, among them society, students and…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Higher Education, Teaching Methods, Universities
Korkealehto, Kirsi; Ohinen-Salvén, Maarit – Research-publishing.net, 2020
This study explored Finnish students' perceptions of online language courses with the KiVAKO project (KiVAKO is an acronym in Finnish meaning strengthening the language capital at higher education institutions). The aim was to identify and make visible the aspects that need to be taken into account in designing an effective online language course.…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, College Students, Online Courses, Second Language Instruction
Quintini, Glenda – OECD Publishing, 2015
The combination of work and study has been hailed as crucial to ensure that youth develop the skills required on the labour market so that transitions from school to work are shorter and smoother. This paper fills an important gap in availability of internationally-comparable data. Using the 2012 Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC), it draws a…
Descriptors: Student Employment, Vocational Education, Apprenticeships, Education Work Relationship
Penttinen, Leena; Skaniakos, Terhi; Lairio, Marjatta – Teaching in Higher Education, 2013
In this article, we introduce a model of a pedagogical working life horizon. It encompasses questions posed by individual students concerning their future and incorporates the idea of a working life orientation to the pedagogical possibilities within education. Working life orientation consists of three elements: individual relationship, knowledge…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Career Education, Career Guidance
Virolainen, M.; Stenström, M.-L. – Journal of Education and Work, 2013
This article examines the goals of employers when they organise work placements for students. It explores how far, in cooperating with polytechnics, employers adhere to a connective model of students' work experiences within their organisations. The paper makes use of a quantitative study based on employers' responses to a questionnaire…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Workplace Learning, Questionnaires, Employers
Lindberg, Matti E. – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2009
This article addresses the question of how great are higher education students' incentives to change study programs or institutions to improve one's personal employability in the course of the higher education-to-work transition process. The posed question is addressed at a system level. Students' mobility between programs and institutions is…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Graduates, Foreign Countries, Student Mobility
Students and Studying in Higher Education in Finland. Publication Series B. Theory into Practice 35.
Makinen, Raimo, Ed.; Maatta, Pentti, Ed. – 1989
Nine articles examine studies in Finnish higher education and the teaching of scientific thinking, with a focus on the relationship between university studies and career satisfaction. Information is presented on the years following the major expansion and reforms in the Finnish higher education system that took place in the mid-to-late 1960s. The…
Descriptors: Career Development, College Students, Education Work Relationship, Foreign Countries
Parjanen, Matti – 1989
A Finnish study sought to verify the "exclusiveness theory" of education developed by Randall Collins. The exclusiveness theory proposes that educational requirements and the educational levels required for employment continually increase, not in response to the actual requirements of jobs, but so that the professions can maintain…
Descriptors: College Students, Education Work Relationship, Educational Attitudes, Employment Qualifications
Lestinen, Leena – 1986
A catalogue in Finnish describes 80 research and 27 research and development (R&D) programs in the field of higher education that were completed or in progress in 1983-1984 in Finland. The introduction, abstract, titles of the research descriptions, and names of research institutes are translated into English. A brief review of higher…
Descriptors: College Admission, College Faculty, College Instruction, College Students
Hamer, Rebecca; Frinking, Erik J.; Horlings, Edwin – RAND Corporation, 2005
RAND Europe has performed a study for the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science. This study aims to increase the understanding regarding the influence of societal developments and policy initiatives on the attractiveness and uptake of science and technology (S&T) in higher education. This study consists of an international…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Science Education
Hamer, Rebecca; Frinking, Erik J.; Horlings, Edwin – RAND Corporation, 2005
RAND Europe has performed a study for the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science. This study aims to increase the understanding regarding the influence of societal developments and policy initiatives on the attractiveness and uptake of science and technology (S&T) in higher education. This study consists of an international…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Science Education