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Archer-Rosenthal, Dana – New America, 2022
High-quality non-degree workforce programs at community colleges, including both credit-bearing and non-credit programs, play a crucial role in equipping low-income and marginalized workers and learners with the skills and credentials they need to secure quality jobs and careers in a variety of occupations. Financing these programs can be a…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Credentials, Work Experience Programs, Noncredit Courses
Jayson Seaman; Jake Martin; Cindy L. Hartman; Andrew D. Coppens – Journal of Outdoor Recreation, Education, and Leadership, 2024
Employees in the outdoor recreation sector account for 3.2% of the U.S. workforce, contributing to over $1.1T in national economic output. As awareness of the sector's economic strength has grown, interest in promoting outdoor recreation careers has expanded. Research on outdoor recreation careers has not kept pace with workforce development…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Career Pathways, Labor Force Development, Professional Personnel
Whittard, Damian; Drew, Hilary; Ritchie, Felix – Journal of Education and Work, 2022
The student workforce plays a substantial part in several low-paying industries such as retail and hospitality, and this has grown over time. However, there has been little recent research. The usual assumption is that students compete successfully with the local labour force for low-skill, part-time jobs, but there is little evidence for this.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Employers, Student Employment, Employer Attitudes
Jackson, Denise; Riebe, Linda; Meek, Stephanie; Ogilvie, Madeleine; Kuilboer, Alf; Murphy, Laurie; Collins, Nathalie; Lynch, Karina; Brock, Mandy – Teaching in Higher Education, 2023
This study recognises how Industry 4.0 is influencing labour market demands of graduating students and how ongoing discord between employers and educators regarding their preparation is driving work-integrated learning across the sector. Stakeholder involvement in capability development requires expected performance standards to benchmark students…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Work Experience Programs, Accreditation (Institutions), Industry
Lauren Saenz; Amy Johnson; Matt Pines – Center for Education Policy, Applied Research, and Evaluation, 2021
Extended learning opportunities (ELOs) have gained traction in Maine and nationally as a means for students to develop "college, career, and life" skills through out-of-classroom experiences. As ELOs are not structured or regulated by the state, they vary significantly in range, scope, and access. This report offers insight into…
Descriptors: High School Students, Career Readiness, Labor Force Development, Educational Opportunities
Jackson, Denise; Rowe, Anna – Studies in Higher Education, 2023
The explicit linking of institutional funding to in-curricular industry engagement and graduate employment affirms the strategic importance of enhancing graduate employability in Australia. Key strategies to enhance graduate employability and employment outcomes are work-integrated learning (WIL) (where students engage with industry as part of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Graduates, Labor Force Development, Work Experience Programs
Marisa Mission; Brian Robinson; Paul Beach; Nick Lee; Harold Hinds – Bellwether, 2023
Across the country, career pathways programs are a popular bipartisan tool for addressing state workforce shortages and ensuring students graduate high school with workforce-ready skills. Delaware Pathways is one such example, formally established by executive order in 2016 by then-Delaware Gov. Jack Markell. The program consists of state-approved…
Descriptors: Career Pathways, Work Experience Programs, Career Development, State Legislation
Atkins, Liz – Qualitative Research Journal, 2022
Purpose: This paper aims to report on a project re-imagining of a Level 1 English-model broad vocational curriculum for low-attaining youth. The project, funded by Rothschild, has sought to develop a knowledge rich and engaging curriculum, which is more consistent with notions of social justice than contemporary low-level vocational curricula.…
Descriptors: Low Achievement, Vocational Education, Curriculum Development, Social Justice
Mobarak, Kaashiefa – Industry and Higher Education, 2021
Organisations function in a flexible and changing environment that requires dynamic responses to diverse forces influencing their sustainability and growth. Employers wish to recruit graduates who can capably and successfully transfer their university-acquired skills and knowledge to the workplace. The aim of this qualitative study is to explore…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Labor Market, Labor Force Development
Amechi, Mauriell H. – New America, 2022
Despite the growing popularity of WBL, the community college and workforce development fields need greater transparency and clarity on the design of these programs to broaden workforce pathways, ensure the transferability of exemplary program models, and support the advancement of equitable outcomes for all students, especially learners from…
Descriptors: Work Experience Programs, Community Colleges, Labor Force Development, Education Work Relationship
Lisa Lee; James R. Neumeister; Cynthia Simko; Ann Kearns Davoren – NORC at the University of Chicago, 2020
Despite the expansion in the number of career programs outside of traditional higher education in recent years, little is known about the range of programs offered and their long-term value. This research examines the variety of training programs that adult workers participate in and examines the experiences and outcomes associated with this…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Nontraditional Education, Academic Degrees, Validity
Niu, Yuanlu; Hunter-Johnson, Yvonne; Xu, Xu; Liu, Tingting – Journal of Continuing Higher Education, 2019
The purpose of this study is to investigate the perception of employability and success among workforce education and development (WED) graduates. A quantitative study was conducted through the administration of an online survey to graduates (N = 85) of a WED program located within a midwestern, state university. The survey included demographic…
Descriptors: Employment Potential, Success, Graduates, State Universities
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
Moreno, Vicente Garcia; Patrinos, Harry Anthony – World Bank, 2020
This paper estimates private and social returns to investment in education in Azerbaijan, using the 2015 Azerbaijan Monitoring Survey for Social Welfare. The private rate of return to education is 6 percent; this is the first estimate of returns to schooling in Azerbaijan since 1995. The returns to schooling are 6 percent for men and 8 percent for…
Descriptors: National Surveys, Higher Education, Educational Finance, Educational Policy
Colorado Department of Higher Education, 2021
For over a year, COVID-19 has disrupted all our lives, including our education system and the future for many Coloradans. Recovery from the pandemic is in sight, but Colorado's industries more than ever will depend upon postsecondary education to help produce the workforce needed in a changed environment and altered economy. It is vital to promote…
Descriptors: High School Graduates, Access to Education, Postsecondary Education, Enrollment