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Panagiotis Arsenis; Miguel Flores – Higher Education Research and Development, 2024
This study contributes theoretically and empirically to our understanding of students' transition from work placement to the graduate labour market, by exploring earning differentials due to heterogeneous job transitions. We developed a theoretical framework that underpins the relationships between work placement, job transition and graduate…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Graduates, Economics Education, Job Placement
Andreya M. Williams – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This case study aimed to examine the experiences of Black college graduates who completed a hyperlocal gap year program in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Much of the literature presented about gap years often occurs between high school and college, when students take an intentional break before pursuing a college degree (GYA, 2020; O'Shea, 2013; Simpson, 2004).…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Blacks, African Americans, Experience
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Wolniak, Gregory C.; Engberg, Mark E. – Review of Higher Education, 2019
The study contributes new evidence on the associations between "high-impact" (AAC&U, 2007) college experiences and career outcomes in the years immediately following college. Drawing on a representative sample of college graduates who participated in the ELS:2002/12 study, results highlight that specific college experiences…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Outcomes of Education, Majors (Students), Job Satisfaction
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Odame, Lois; Osei-Hwedie, Bertha; Nketsia, William; Opoku, Maxwell Peprah; Nanor Arthur, Betty – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2021
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities requires state parties to make deliberate laws, policies and administrative measures to safeguard the right to work of persons with disabilities. However, many countries, such as Ghana, run afoul of this requirement. Currently, there are intense campaigns in Ghana aimed at…
Descriptors: Visual Impairments, College Graduates, Employer Attitudes, Education Work Relationship
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Halstead, Tammy Jane; Lare, Douglas – Journal of College Student Development, 2018
At the intersection of college and work is a complex transition that graduates face every day. Lower levels of college to career transition self-efficacy (CTSE) and lower levels of perceived adulthood may cause a more difficult transition. In this mixed-method study we sought to better understand the relationships among perceived adulthood, CTSE,…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, College Graduates, Career Exploration, Mixed Methods Research
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Figueiredo, Hugo; Biscaia, Ricardo; Rocha, Vera; Teixeira, Pedro – Studies in Higher Education, 2017
Recent decades have seen a massive expansion in higher education (HE), fuelled by high expectations about its private benefits. This has raised concerns about the impact on the employability of recent graduates and the potential mismatches between their skills and the competences required by the job structure. Equally, it could set the ground for…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Labor Market, College Graduates
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Gallagher, Pádraig – Journal of Education and Work, 2015
This research looks at the role of graduate placement programmes in bridging the gap between higher education and the small- and medium-sized enterprise (SME) sector. The research design and methodology used in this study was exploratory, in-depth and qualitative in nature. The research took the form of a multiple case study and focused on seven…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Job Placement, Student Placement, College Graduates
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Anderson, Vivienne; McGrath, Terry; Butcher, Andrew – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2014
In 2008 the Asia New Zealand Foundation commissioned a three-year project examining Asia-born New Zealand-educated business graduates' study to work transitions. Data were collected through annual online surveys and in-depth interviews. Graduates were asked to discuss their post-study experiences, reflections on studying in New Zealand, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Asians, College Graduates, Business Administration Education
Foote, Stephanie M., Ed.; Hinkle, Sara M., Ed.; Kranzow, Jeannine, Ed.; Pistilli, Matthew D., Ed.; Miles, LaTonya Rease, Ed.; Simmons, Jannell G., Ed. – National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, 2013
The transition from high school to college is an important milestone, but it is only one of many steps in the journey through higher education. This volume is an annotated bibliography of the emerging literature examining the many other transitions students make beyond the first year, including the sophomore year, the transfer experience, and the…
Descriptors: High School Students, College Students, College Bound Students, Transitional Programs
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Klein, Markus; Weiss, Felix – Studies in Higher Education, 2011
Mandatory internships are implemented in higher education curricula in order to ease the labour market integration of graduates. This article evaluates the utility of mandatory internships in Germany by assessing the effect on graduates' transition from higher education to work. The authors examine whether these compulsory programmes provide extra…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Labor Market, College Graduates
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Wood, Frances B. – Journal of Employment Counseling, 2004
College graduates and employers alike have expressed dissatisfaction with the tack of job competencies of new graduates. Both groups suggest that institutions of higher education must do a better job of preparing their students to meet workplace challenges. The author describes the problem and presents a model that is delivered via distance…
Descriptors: Transitional Programs, College Graduates, Distance Education, Higher Education
Madaus, Joseph W. – Journal of Postsecondary Education and Disability, 2006
There is a lack of literature on the transition to career for college graduates with learning disabilities (LD). The present study presents the results of 170 college graduates' written, open-ended responses related to how the transition to career may be improved. Responses focused upon two main categories, Suggestions for Programs and Suggestions…
Descriptors: Mentors, Learning Disabilities, College Graduates, Transitional Programs
Lekes, Natasha; Bragg, Debra. D.; Loeb, Jane W.; Oleksiw, Catherine A.; Marszalek, Jacob; Brooks-LaRaviere, Margaret; Zhu, Rongchun; Kremidas, Chloe C.; Akukwe, Grace; Lee, Hyeong-Jong; Hood, Lisa K. – National Research Center for Career and Technical Education, 2007
This mixed method study examined secondary student matriculation to two selected community colleges offering career and technical education (CTE) transition programs through partnerships with K-12 and secondary districts having numerous high schools. The study had two distinct components: (1) a secondary study that compared CTE and non-CTE…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Technical Education, Student Participation, Academic Persistence
Nettles, Michael T.; Perna, Laura W. – 1997
This executive summary completes the three-volume set depicting the educational experiences of African Americans from preschool through adulthood. Like Volumes I and II, Volume III records the African American educational progress that has previously existed only in a multitude of places, including research and Census databases, at testing…
Descriptors: Black Students, College Bound Students, College Entrance Examinations, College Graduates
National Inst. for Careers Education and Counselling, Cambridge (England). – 2000
The Leeds Under-Employed Graduates project was developed to assist higher education (HE) graduates living or working in Leeds, England, who encountered difficulty in establishing themselves in the local labor market. The main project activities were as follows: (1) services for graduates (including graduate career development workshops, assistance…
Descriptors: Action Research, Adult Counseling, Adult Learning, Adult Programs