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Kathleen Vail – Phi Delta Kappan, 2024
Some students learn better if they can apply skills and knowledge to their lives. Youth apprenticeships are a way for students to work and gain skills in a chosen career field and earn money while still in high school. Youth apprenticeships are on a continuum of work-based learning that includes job shadowing and internships. Apprenticeships…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, High School Students, Job Shadowing, Experiential Learning
Niman, Neil B.; Chagnon, Jennifer R. – Palgrave Macmillan, 2023
This book examines the tide of change facing higher education as it grapples with providing a more relevant and demonstrated value for its graduates entering the workplace. Based on their experience with the Business in Practice program they created, the authors share the rationale and practical approaches colleges and universities need to…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Graduates, Job Skills, Employment Qualifications
Lalantha Senevirathna; Karthika KrishnaPillai; Jim Morgan; Shara Cameron – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2023
Presented here is a novel engineering degree initiative established at Charles Sturt University (CSU), Australia. This program embodies emerging trends and prospects in engineering education, aspiring to nurture adept engineers well-prepared for practical application. Furthermore, this paper delves into the application of this program for training…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Curriculum, Employment Qualifications, Water
Boud, David; Costley, Carol; Cranfield, Steven; Desai, Jeenal; Nikolou-Walker, Elda; Nottingham, Paula; Wilson, Dilys – Higher Education Research and Development, 2023
Work-integrated learning (WIL) is proliferating in university courses across many countries. Like many educational practices, students' experience of it is shaped by the assessment processes adopted. Does assessment support or inhibit what WIL seeks to foster? To explore how students experience assessment in WIL, a small-scale investigation was…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, College Students, Student Attitudes, College Role
Kavita Rao; Emily Garant-Jones; Bonnie Amelia Dean; Michelle J. Eady – International Journal of Work-Integrated Learning, 2024
Work-integrated learning (WIL) is crucial for the development of employability skills and has an influence on employment outcomes. Given the significance of WIL pedagogies for graduate preparedness and transitions into work, concerns have been raised on the barriers to access and participation in WIL for some cohorts of learners. Equity and…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Inclusion, Equal Education, Work Experience Programs
Boutsiouki, Sofia; Vasileiadis, Nikolaos; Kouskouvelis, Ilias; Koniaris, Vasileios – Education Quarterly Reviews, 2021
The smooth transition of young people to the labor market and their competency in successfully planning and developing their careers constitute key aims of all modern education systems. The implementation of work placements plays an important role in the realization of these aims by enhancing the communication between the education providers and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Postsecondary Education, College Students, Experiential Learning
Eisenstein, Alon; Goh, Cynthia; Istrate, Emanuel – International Journal of Work-Integrated Learning, 2021
Experiential learning is increasingly being recognized as the preferred teaching method in entrepreneurship education, with particular emphasis on students' 'real-world' experience. This paper critically examines the adequacy of using work-integrated learning (WIL) pedagogy for the purpose of entrepreneurship education. A novel approach is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Entrepreneurship, Work Experience Programs, Experiential Learning
Kerr, Thomas – Work Based Learning e-Journal International, 2019
In efforts to encourage student recognition of greater connections between their experiential learning and college-level learning, the author has developed a model comprising four key areas towards a method he calls 'thresholding'. These key areas are: situating experience, reflecting on experience, understanding college-level learning, and…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Recognition (Achievement), Labor Education, Experiential Learning
Bowen, Tracey – International Journal of Work-Integrated Learning, 2020
This position paper will examine the complexities of remote working, specifically as it impacts students on work integrated learning (WIL) placements such as internships. Current literature on the challenges of remote working and recent student reflections based on their experiences of pivoting from office space to completing their internship…
Descriptors: Work Experience Programs, Experiential Learning, COVID-19, Pandemics
Andrews, Joy; Ramji, Karima – International Journal of Work-Integrated Learning, 2020
While the fields of work-integrated learning (WIL) and career development share common goals, WIL literature tends to focus on student employability more than students' ability to manage their careers. The Leading Edge program at a Canadian institution, the University of Victoria, brings together these two disciplines as it draws from theory and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Work Experience Programs, Career Development, Experiential Learning
Keep, Ewart – Centre on Skills, Knowledge and Organisational Performance (SKOPE), 2020
The main focus of the paper is on youth unemployment and wider transitions into work, but it also has some thoughts on adult unemployment and re-training. This paper is founded upon a basic assumption -- namely that if the public money available across the United Kingdom to support measures around skills and unemployment is finite, then targeting…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Youth, Unemployment, Adults
Winchester-Seeto, Theresa; Piggott, Leanne – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2020
This Position Paper explores some of the assumptions that underpin the dependence on physical WIL placements. The authors focus on the fundamental question of what exactly we are preparing students for -- is it the workplace, or should we think more broadly about preparing students for the workforce? This raises other questions around the…
Descriptors: Work Experience Programs, Experiential Learning, Job Training, Communities of Practice
Iyioke, Ike V.; Iyioke, Ifeoma C. – Work Based Learning e-Journal International, 2020
Academic work-based learning (WBL) has an over a century-long history in Nigeria. The current WBL programs are the Students' Industrial Work Experience Scheme (SIWES) and the Graduate Internship (GI). They are sponsored by the federal government with the aim to improve employment outcomes. However, there is still a gross mismatch between the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Work Experience Programs, Experiential Learning, Internship Programs
Advance CTE: State Leaders Connecting Learning to Work, 2020
In summer 2018, the Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act (Perkins V) was signed into law, which provided states the opportunity to reflect, engage with a wide array of stakeholders and partners, reaffirm key priorities and commitments, and identify new opportunities to support learners and their industry partners.…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation, Vocational Education, Statewide Planning
Mann, Anthony; Rehill, Jordan; Kashefpakdel, Elnaz T. – Education Endowment Foundation, 2018
This study, commissioned by the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF), is designed to review current evidence on the most effective ways in which employers can support schools to improve pupil educational and economic outcomes. It is a study in three parts. It aims, first, to conceptualise employer engagement in education as a strategic tool,…
Descriptors: Employers, School Business Relationship, Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries