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Direct linkMelissa Tham; Elizabeth Knight – Australian Journal of Career Development, 2024
Accessing high-quality career development to support successful transitions into post-compulsory education and employment can be a challenge for newly arrived students of refugee and migrant backgrounds. In Australia, not-for-profit organisations provide career guidance to students within schools that enrol refugee and migrant families. Through…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Migrants, Refugees, Migrant Education
Palanac, Aleks – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2018
This report outlines how individuals at the University of Leicester's English Language Teaching Unit (ELTU) re-evaluated their role as Gatekeepers to the University by implementing new measures to facilitate the admission of a group for whom the gates would typically be shut: refugees and asylum seekers (RASs). It describes how, incrementally and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English for Academic Purposes
Gumaelius, Lena; Almqvist, Monica; Árnadóttir, Anna; Axelsson, Anders; Conejero, J. Alberto; García-Sabater, José P.; Klitgaard, Lene; Kozma, Cecilia; Maheut, Julien; Marin-Garcia, Juan; Mickos, Henrik; Nilsson, Per-Olof; Norén, Agneta; Pinho-Lopes, Margarida; Prenzel, Manfred; Ray, Johanna; Roxå, Torgny; Voss, Mirjam – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2016
Since the 1990s, the low number of students choosing to study science and technology in higher education has been on the societal agenda and many initiatives have been launched to promote awareness regarding career options. The initiatives particularly focus on increasing enrolment in the engineering programmes. This article describes and compares…
Descriptors: Outreach Programs, Universities, Science Interests, College Programs
Download full textMcCrone, Tami; Sims, David; Gladding, Cath – National Foundation for Educational Research, 2016
Apprenticeships are currently undergoing reform in England. Funding mechanisms and the content of Apprenticeship programmes are being restructured. NFER and the Association of Employment and Learning Providers (AELP) have carried out a joint research project to inform future policy and practice with evidence on how providers of Apprenticeships are…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Guidelines
Linley, Jodi L.; George-Jackson, Casey E. – New Directions for Student Services, 2013
This chapter provides an overview of undergraduate STEM initiatives for underrepresented minorities and women, as well as a description and critical analysis of one comprehensive federally funded initiative at a research-intensive university.
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Intervention, STEM Education, Disproportionate Representation
Sampson, James P., Jr.; McClain, Mary-Catherine; Musch, Elisabeth; Reardon, Robert C. – Career Development Quarterly, 2013
This article identifies and briefly describes the broad range of variables that may influence clients' readiness to benefit from career interventions. The article also discusses consequences of low readiness for effective use of career interventions and addresses implications for practice as well as for future research. Variables contributing to…
Descriptors: Career Development, Performance Factors, Predictor Variables, Readiness
Simon, Alexandra – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2014
In Europe there is no common quality assurance framework for the delivery of guidance in higher education. Using a case study approach in four university career guidance services in England, France and Spain, this article aims to study how quality is implemented in university career guidance services in terms of strategy, standards and models,…
Descriptors: Quality Assurance, Universities, Guidance Programs, Delivery Systems
Almeida, Rita; Amaral, Nicole; de Felicio, Fabiana – World Bank, 2016
Despite impressive progress in education enrollments in recent decades, Brazil continues to face important obstacles to overall quality and secondary school completion rates that restrict the nation's ability to produce a skilled workforce. Vocational and Technical Education and Training (VET) is a key element in the strategy to more quickly…
Descriptors: Technical Education, Vocational Education, Educational Quality, Educational Attainment
Varjavand, Nielufar; Novack, Dennis H.; Schindler, Barbara A. – Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions, 2012
There is growing recognition of the need to reeducate clinically inactive physicians seeking to return to practice and in the facilitation of this return. Physicians seeking to return to practice face many challenges: maneuvering the various requirements of licensing, medical, and credentialing boards; finding an appropriate educational program to…
Descriptors: Physicians, Certification, Career Guidance, Educational Resources
Piazza, Roberta – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2013
In Italy, accreditation of prior learning is a sensitive issue. Despite the lack of laws or qualification frameworks regulating the recognition of non-formal and informal learning, most Italian universities proceed with caution, allowing only a restricted number of credits in the university curriculum related to practical activities or to external…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Prior Learning, Informal Education, Professional Education
Goonatilake, Rohitha; Bachnak, Rafic A. – Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research, 2012
Recent decline of students pursuing engineering degree programs is a great concern for many higher education authorities including Federal and State governments. Existing programs in high schools have not yet produced the desired results. Consequently, a number of initiatives to remedy this situation have been proposed and implemented. One such…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, High School Students, Middle School Students, Workshops
Lally, Victor; Sclater, Madeleine – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2013
Careers work in the twenty-first century faces a key challenge in terms of digital technologies: to evaluate their potential for careers work in challenging settings. Given the rapidity of developments, technologies require evaluation in research innovations and naturalistic settings. Virtual worlds offer potential for careers and guidance work,…
Descriptors: Developmental Tasks, Career Guidance, Design, Career Counseling
Savickas, Mark L. – Journal of Counseling & Development, 2011
July 7, 2011, marks the centennial of counselor education as a formal discipline. In recognition of its 100th birthday, the author of this article describes the origins of the discipline, beginning with its prehistory in the work of Frank Parsons to establish the practice of vocational guidance, describing the 1st course in counselor education at…
Descriptors: Counselor Training, Counseling, Career Guidance, Educational History
Hartz, Cameo V.; Parker, Jill – New Directions for Student Services, 2012
Institutions of higher education address the transition from after-college life in a variety of curricular approaches. Articulation agreements provide greater transferability of courses from one college to another, thereby easing the transition for students. Career courses, which are typically taught by career center staff, are a common offering…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Transitional Programs, Developmental Studies Programs, College Programs
Taylor, Gwen; Heflin, David – Adult Learning, 2015
In this article, Gwen Taylor describes the West Kentucky Community and Technical College (WKCTC) groundbreaking program, "Accelerating Opportunity" (AO), which targeted students who are deficient in math, reading, or writing. The program uses the Washington State Board for Community & Technical Colleges' (2013) Integrated Basic…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Community Colleges, Technical Institutes, Acceleration (Education)
