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Martin, Lori Nichols – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Work-based learning (WBL) is a form of education that combines classroom learning with practical work experience. This approach is becoming increasingly popular as it helps students develop a range of skills employers highly value, such as communication, teamwork, problem solving, and leadership. This professional practice dissertation (PPD)…
Descriptors: Work Experience Programs, Secondary School Students, Career Development, Career Readiness
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Lyons, Kristen; Seini, Monica; West, Catherine Coogan; Rashidi, Pedram; Freeman, Camille; Ryall, Glenn; Chen, Susan; Vu, Ciarra – International Journal of Work-Integrated Learning, 2022
Work-integrated learning (WIL) is a teaching and learning approach widely adopted across Australian universities. With inclusion across a wide range of programs and courses, WIL is championed as providing authentic and transformative learning environments that may equip graduates for the world of work. Despite a rapid expansion in WIL scholarship,…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Work Experience Programs, Career Readiness, Career Development
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Grooters, Saskia; Zaal, Emma; Ongena, Yfke; Gerkema, Menno – Journal of Teaching and Learning for Graduate Employability, 2023
Career development of Science students seems dependent on more than disciplinary education, such as the nature and focus of career preparation. In this study we compare graduate outcomes of science students at the University of Groningen, completing two master-level program streams with different focal points, by using career progress surveys from…
Descriptors: Career Development, Alumni, Science Education, Masters Programs
Binder, Libuse – Jobs for the Future, 2023
Colorado is a state primed for blurring the lines between secondary, postsecondary, and workforce policies and programs to serve Colorado's young people better. The state has a growing economy, political leadership committed to advancing innovative, affordable education pathways, and a commitment from state agencies and state-based advocates that…
Descriptors: State Policy, Educational Policy, Education Work Relationship, Credentials
OECD Publishing, 2025
Effective career guidance systems provide students with the opportunity to gain first hand experiences of what it is like to be in work. Students in general secondary education in many countries are encouraged and enabled by their schools to participate in short duration internships (also known in some countries as work experience placements).…
Descriptors: Internship Programs, Secondary School Students, General Education, Career Guidance
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Mollie Dollinger; Tim Corcoran; Denise Jackson; Sarah O'Shea – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2024
Definitions of disability are changing, shifting from a narrow medical diagnosis to a biopsychosocial model of disability, where disability is conceptualised as a series of relational conditions that can potentially disadvantage individuals within environments. Implications of this new understanding of disability will have significant effects in…
Descriptors: Employment Potential, Inclusion, Biological Influences, Social Influences
Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE), 2022
Student career development is an important element of a high-quality career and technical education (CTE) program. Students enrolled in programs with high-quality career development activities are able to identify a personalized career plan related to their strengths, interests and abilities, and are informed about post high school education and…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, School Business Relationship, Career Development, Vocational Education
Nathan Sick; Amanda Briggs; Jincy Wilson – Urban Institute, 2023
Many students in postsecondary education programs face challenges navigating pathways to good jobs. In particular, students who face barriers to success need accessible pathways to economic mobility, but low income and low tolerance for debt present challenges. These students stand to benefit from strategies at all levels of education (and after…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Education Work Relationship, Occupational Aspiration, Career Development
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Ng, Peggy M. L.; Wut, Tai Ming; Chan, Jason K. Y. – Education & Training, 2022
Purpose: Embedded in higher educational settings, work-integrated learning (WIL) is a key reflection to students' perceived employability. The purpose of this study is to explore the antecedents of internal and external perceived employability. The research attempts to test a theoretical model examining the relationships among human capital, work…
Descriptors: Employment Potential, Foreign Countries, Internship Programs, Human Capital
Hamilton, Stephen F. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2020
Current career pathways initiatives recapitulate in many ways both the issues motivating the school-to-work movement of the 1980s and 1990s and its recommended solutions, notably more work-based learning, especially apprenticeship. But that movement's energy dissipated in the face of college for all. Nonetheless, some of its achievements and many…
Descriptors: Career Development, Education Work Relationship, Apprenticeships, Work Experience Programs
Universities UK, 2023
Are some graduates going on to do non-graduate jobs? Evidence collected from interviews with universities careers services shows many have in fact seen an improvement in graduate employment -- specifically, in more graduates entering 'high skilled professions' and unemployment rates going down. Many universities have implemented a mandatory work…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, College Graduates, Employment Services
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Pretti, T. Judene; Parrott, Patricia; Hoskyn, Katharine; Fannon, Anne-Marie; Church, Dana; Arsenault, Christine – International Journal of Work-Integrated Learning, 2020
This study explored the ways that work-integrated learning (WIL) influences the development of entrepreneurs. Seven alumni from Canada and the United Kingdom, who experienced differing forms of WIL during their degree, participated in qualitative in-depth interviews and provided rich pictures. A "rich picture" is a pictorial…
Descriptors: Work Experience Programs, Entrepreneurship, Alumni, Cross Cultural Studies
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Bandaranaike, Suniti – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2018
The thinking required by higher education student engagement in research processes may segue into the development of students' work skills, enabling them to professionally transition to the workforce. However, although this transition may be facilitated before and during Work Integrated Learning [WIL] experiences, there is typically a gulf between…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Skill Development, Research Skills, Job Skills
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Bates, Lyndel; Hayes, Hennessey; Walker, Stacey; Marchesi, Kate – International Journal of Work-Integrated Learning, 2018
This paper explores the employment and further education outcomes of students studying criminology who participate in professional skills development and work-integrated learning courses at a major Australian university. Three years of data were obtained from the Australian Graduate Survey, which is completed by university graduates four months…
Descriptors: Employment Potential, Employment, Professional Development, Foreign Countries
Barbic, Vanessa; Dorsey, Teanna; Haygood, Antoinette; Richardson, Charleita; DeBaun, Bill; Ciaramella, Allie – National College Access Network, 2018
The National College Access Network, with the support of Strada Education Network, has pursued work that helps its members and the field of college access connect college and career success. This work takes the form of case studies, webinars, white papers, and conference sessions that bring together diverse voices from across the NCAN membership…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Students, Education Work Relationship, College Readiness
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