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Lenka Farkacová; Mária Králová; Eva Zelendová – Mathematics Teaching Research Journal, 2024
This article aims to identify the mutual relationship between the awareness of the importance of mathematical competencies for the acquisition of work-related skills and the perceived importance of the latter for performance in future work and successful participation in the labor market. How these issues relate to math anxiety is also explored.…
Descriptors: Mathematics Anxiety, Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries
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Alam, Gazi Mahabubul; Forhad, Md Abdur Rahman – Comparative Education Review, 2021
Many countries continue to follow a policy of clustering educational provision by disciplinary stream as developed during the British colonial era. Whether such an approach enables education to fulfill its developmental purpose is still open to debate. Using multiple qualitative tools, this study investigates the impact of clustering education in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Science Education, Equal Education
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Sakamoto, Akiko – International Journal of Training Research, 2019
Asia is known as an economic success story but for many people growth has not been inclusive. The increased mechanization of work and other trends are likely to deepen existing social inequalities. Skills can help address these challenges, but a new and broader perspective is needed in skills development policy. This article argues that while…
Descriptors: Skill Development, Foreign Countries, Labor Market, Labor Force
Unger, Martin; Jühlke, Robert – European Commission, 2020
Much is expected from higher education in regard to addressing the challenges that policy makers in the countries of the European Higher Education Area face. Higher education institutions should equip their graduates with the skills and competencies necessary for the successful entry into a volatile labour market, and more importantly, maintain…
Descriptors: Labor Force Development, Skilled Workers, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Marcus, Jon – Lumina Foundation, 2020
Intermediaries--also referred to as bridge builders, boundary spanners, conveners, and other names--fill the critical role of connecting all the parties in the system to empower people with the skills required in the labor force. Those parties generally include employers, educators, workers, and prospective workers. Within these categories may…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Labor Force Development, Job Skills, Public Agencies
Burke, Mary A. – Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, 2015
This paper assesses the extent to which Rhode Island's workforce lacks skills that are in demand among the state's current and potential employers and, if so, whether such a skills gap or labor market "mismatch" significantly restrains employment growth in the state. Using an index developed by Sahin et al. (2014), we find that…
Descriptors: Labor Market, Skill Analysis, Achievement Gap, Job Skills
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Youcef, Souar; Abdelhakem, Amina; Ahmed, Setti Sid – African Educational Research Journal, 2017
This paper discusses the role of labor force in industrialization in Algeria by entering the spending in education as a mediator variable. From a theoretical point of view, there are good grounds for believing that labor force can play an important role in promoting industrialization, but if education had been incorporated in manufacturing, this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Labor Force, Industrialization, Educational Finance
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Mitterle, Alexander; Stock, Manfred – European Journal of Higher Education, 2021
In light of a global higher education expansion, the paper analyses the historic-structural conditions of this development for the German state(s) after World War II. Building on Talcott Parsons citizenship patterns, the analysis centres on two core institutions of the German higher education system: the state-organized system of entitlement…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Development, Educational History, Civil Rights
Wyoming Community College Commission, 2022
W.S. 21-18-202 (h)(iii) mandates that the Wyoming Community College Commission (WCCC) develop performance benchmarks, outcome measures and other performance indicators which serve as the basis for annual reporting to the Wyoming Legislature and the Governor. The annual reporting must include, but is not limited to, the following measures: (1)…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Educational Indicators, Educational Quality, Benchmarking
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Roopchund, Randhir; Ramlowat, Dosheela – Industry and Higher Education, 2019
There has been an alarming rate of graduate unemployment in Mauritius over the past 5 years. The education system has been criticized for being too academic and not driven by the requirements of industry, leading to a skills mismatch. The Mauritian government has consequently announced several new schemes to boost employment and economic growth.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Labor Force Development, Partnerships in Education
State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, 2019
"The Virginia Plan for Higher Education" articulates the objective that the Commonwealth will be the best-educated state by 2030. To achieve this objective, Virginia not only must increase educational attainment rates, but also must close the gaps in the differing rates of attainment that exist across its population and its regions. For…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Achievement Gap, Statewide Planning, Brain Drain
Ohio Department of Higher Education, 2021
It has been two years since Mike DeWine was sworn in to serve as Ohio's 70th governor, joined by Jon Husted as lieutenant governor. From the very beginning, Governor DeWine requested that his Cabinet listen carefully to the people of the state and then proceed to act with a sense of urgency to change Ohio. In 2019, Chancellor Randy Gardner began…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Benefits, Educational Attainment, Income
Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges, 2014
Washington's community and technical colleges are a collective, powerful, unmatched resource for advancing prosperity through education. These 34 colleges not only connect with employers in the regions where they operate, but also with each other through common programs--like advanced manufacturing and allied health--that align with Washington's…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Technical Institutes, Two Year Colleges, Two Year College Students
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Hodgson, Ann; Spours, Ken; Smith, David; Jeanes, Julia – Journal of Education and Work, 2019
Education providers and employers working together to prepare young people and adults for employment is internationally accepted as a key factor in effective technical and vocational education. In the English context, however, we argue that two related orthodoxies have prevailed -- 'employer engagement' and 'skills supply' -- in which education…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Education Work Relationship, Foreign Countries, School Business Relationship
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Dobbs, Richard; Madgavkar, Anu – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2014
As a result of changing employer needs, shifts in the labour supply, and demographic forces, there could be increasingly significant mismatches between worker skills and job requirements by 2030, which could raise structural unemployment levels and slow economic growth. These gaps would include shortages of high-skill workers in advanced economies…
Descriptors: Unemployment, Foreign Countries, Job Skills, Labor Market
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