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Kroon, Nanja; Franco, Mário – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2022
Purpose: Higher education internships have been studied in different aspects, mainly from the student or university perspective. To contribute to the understanding of the third actor in this type of university-industry cooperation, the paper examines employers' perspectives on higher education internships. Design/methodology/approach: Through a…
Descriptors: Internship Programs, Employer Attitudes, Outcomes of Education, Undergraduate Students
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Mason, Claire M.; Burns, Shanae M.; Bester, Elinor A. – Education & Training, 2022
Purpose: The authors proposed that participation in large-scale, structured events designed to match students to employers' internship opportunities could support students' employability by focussing students' career goals, strengthening students' career self-efficacy and growing students' social capital. Design/methodology/approach: Interviews…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Attitudes, Career Readiness, Employment Potential
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Neelima Bhatnagar; Victoria Causer; Michael J. Lucci; Michael Pry; Dorothy M. Zilic – Information Systems Education Journal, 2024
Data analytics is a rapidly growing field that plays a crucial role in extracting valuable insights from large volumes of data. A data analytics practicum course provides students with hands-on experience in applying data analytics techniques and tools to real-world scenarios. This practicum is intended to serve as a bridge between the student's…
Descriptors: Statistics Education, Data Analysis, Practicums, Education Work Relationship
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Plakhotnik, Maria S.; Shmaytser, Kristina S.; Feofilov, Kirill A. – Education & Training, 2023
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate attractiveness of internship advertisements to the prospective applicants through the lens of employer branding. By giving attention to internship attractiveness, universities and companies expand current collaborations around internship provision to enhance student internship experiences,…
Descriptors: Internship Programs, Advertising, Content Analysis, Job Applicants
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Haygood, Daniel M.; Vincent, Hal; Bush, Lee – Journal of Advertising Education, 2019
Student-run communications agencies on university campuses provide the opportunity for communications students to apply classroom learning to real client projects with actual budgets. Students have direct contact with marketing and communication professionals who hold the students accountable for their work and results. This research looks at the…
Descriptors: Advertising, Personnel Selection, Student Organizations, Student Experience
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Otto, Elizabeth; Dunens, Elizabeth – Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education, 2021
This paper explores the potential for postsecondary community-based educational experiences to impart the skills employers most desire from new college graduates. We gathered one U.S. university's community-engaged learning (CEL) stakeholders to collect detailed descriptions of the behaviors students practice during CEL. Students, faculty, and…
Descriptors: Job Skills, Soft Skills, Skill Development, Employer Attitudes
Wilder Research, 2021
Opportunity America received a grant from Lumina Foundation to conduct a national research study of community colleges' credit and noncredit occupational education programs and their relationships with employers. Opportunity America contracted with Wilder Research to manage data collection and analysis for the study. The purpose of this study was…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Vocational Education, Job Training, Noncredit Courses
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Capka, John; Foltin, Craig – eJEP: eJournal of Education Policy, 2017
Accounting internships provide substantial benefits to employers and students alike. However, opportunities for students are not equitable across all populations due to the existing policies that exist for placing interns. This inequity is particularly true for students from community colleges where there is a larger proportion of underrepresented…
Descriptors: Accounting, Internship Programs, Program Proposals, Program Improvement
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Fawaz-Yissi, Ma. Julia; Vallejos-Cartes, Rosana – Educational Studies: Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, 2020
Technical and vocational education plays a key role in development, being a strategic axis supporting competitiveness and labor insertion of young people. In Chile, the discussion on challenges and transformations in the secondary technical and vocational education system (STVE) have been little visible despite the significant number of students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Labor Market, Demand Occupations
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Kinash, Shelley; Crane, Linda; Judd, Madelaine-Marie; Knight, Cecily – Higher Education Research and Development, 2016
A literature review identified 12 strategies that have been empirically linked to improvements in graduate employability. A survey methodology was used to investigate self-reported use and/or perspectives on these strategies among four stakeholder groups. The following questions were asked: to students--What strategies are you using to improve…
Descriptors: Employment Potential, Stakeholders, Change Strategies, Career Readiness
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Gray, Lucinda; Lewis, Laurie – National Center for Education Statistics, 2018
This report is based on the 2016-17 survey "Career and Technical Education Programs in Public School Districts" and provides nationally representative data on career and technical education (CTE) programs. The survey defines a CTE program as a sequence of courses at the high school level that provides students with the academic and…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Public Schools, School Districts, Sequential Approach
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Low, Mary; Botes, Vida; Rue, David Dela; Allen, Jackie – e-Journal of Business Education and Scholarship of Teaching, 2016
This research examined what accounting employers are seeking in their "ideal" accounting graduate and sought to provide clarification on the "expectation gap" between what accounting employers require in their graduates, and the skills these graduates are exhibiting. Adopting a qualitative research method, this research paper…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Accounting, Employer Attitudes, Employment Qualifications
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Rahim, Suzana Ab.; Tazijan, Farina – English Language Teaching, 2011
There is a need to expose the learners in the hospitality industry to real workplace requirement in terms of communication skills. In view of its importance, human resource managers, researchers and educators in the field of hospitality management or the hotel practitioners have to pay more serious attention to it. Thus, it is pertinent that both…
Descriptors: Hospitality Occupations, Management Development, Verbal Communication, Communication Skills
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Sears, Sue; Burstein, Nancy; Ashton, Tamarah; Murawski, Wendy – Journal of the National Association for Alternative Certification, 2009
Alternative programs in special education are often developed in response to chronic personnel shortages. At issue, however, is the quality of alternative programs and their graduates. This paper describes the design, implementation and evaluation of a large special education alternative certification program that adheres to both professional…
Descriptors: Alternative Teacher Certification, Academic Standards, Special Education Teachers, Teacher Shortage
Shapiro, Daniel – 1999
Using National Employer Survey data collected during 1997 and 1998, this paper examines the one-year impact on employers of participating in school-to-work partnerships under the 1994 School-to-Work Opportunities Act. In both years the surveys asked about the kinds and numbers of school-to-work activities in which employers engaged, their…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Career Development, Cooperative Education, Education Work Relationship
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