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Downs, Carolyn; Mughal, Farooq; Shah, Uzair; Ryder, Mike – Studies in Higher Education, 2024
Internships are widely recognized within higher education as a useful work-based learning (WBL) approach to enhance student employability. However, there remains a need to understand whether internships provide a developmental experience that includes higher-level (soft) skills such as self-responsibility, flexibility and innovation. Our study…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Internship Programs, Work Experience Programs, Education Work Relationship
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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Madhumita Banerjee; Kaila Bingen – Experiential Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, 2024
This study presents a course model to demonstrate how students' current work experiences can be utilized as a viable alternative to internships. While internships have been shown to enhance a student's college experience, underserved and underrepresented students are often unable to pursue this high impact practice due to financial,…
Descriptors: College Students, Internship Programs, Experiential Learning, Work Experience Programs
Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education, US Department of Education, 2024
Career-connected learning is an educational strategy that combines high-quality academic instruction, skill-based learning, and real-world experiences to prepare students with the knowledge and skills that they need to pursue their college and career goals. Career-connected learning can be delivered in a variety of ways, including in core content…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Career and Technical Education Schools, Career and Technical Education
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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
Amechi, Mauriell H. – New America, 2022
Despite the growing popularity of WBL, the community college and workforce development fields need greater transparency and clarity on the design of these programs to broaden workforce pathways, ensure the transferability of exemplary program models, and support the advancement of equitable outcomes for all students, especially learners from…
Descriptors: Work Experience Programs, Community Colleges, Labor Force Development, Education Work Relationship
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Skiadas, Dimitrios; Boutsiouki, Sofia; Koniaris, Vasileios; Zafiropoulos, Konstantinos; Karatsiori, Marianthi – International Education Studies, 2021
The aim of establishing the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) marked the development of the Bologna process since its beginning, while it exercised a decisive influence on the content of the higher education policy initiatives undertaken over the years. One of the most important goals of the relevant policy making was to bridge the…
Descriptors: Program Development, Work Experience Programs, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
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Jackson, Denise; Dean, Bonnie Amelia – Higher Education Research and Development, 2023
Work-integrated learning (WIL) is widely recognised as significantly contributing to enhancing graduate employability. Empirical evaluation of its impact and value is often confined to work-based WIL (internships/placements/practicums), known to pose challenges with scalability and equitable access. Through the lens of experiential learning, this…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Work Experience Programs, Employment Potential, Internship Programs
Clare Buckley Flack; John Sludden; Kathryn Hill; James J. Kemple – Research Alliance for New York City Schools, 2023
In September 2022, New York City Public Schools (NYCPS) announced a major expansion of work-based learning programs for high school students. The initiative, which provides 3,000 students with apprenticeships in technology, business, education, and healthcare, is one part of a larger vision for career-connected learning for all students throughout…
Descriptors: Student Recruitment, School Holding Power, Work Experience Programs, High School Students
Frenette, Alexandre – Strategic National Arts Alumni Project, 2021
Drawing on data from the Strategic National Arts Alumni Project (SNAAP) internship module fielded in 2015-2017, this report offers several key findings related to historical changes and emerging forms of inequality in the intern economy. In addition to illuminating these findings, this report offers an important addendum to the 2015 SNAAP report…
Descriptors: Art Education, Program Descriptions, Internship Programs, Salaries
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Silva, Patrícia; Lopes, Betina; Costa, Marco; Melo, Ana I.; Dias, Gonçalo Paiva; Brito, Elisabeth; Seabra, Dina – Studies in Higher Education, 2018
Higher education institutions are increasingly concerned with the professional insertion of graduates in the labour market and with the design of institutional mechanisms to facilitate students' transition from higher education to work, particularly given the context of scarcity of financial resources and the rise of graduate unemployment. This…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Internship Programs, Program Effectiveness
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Ding, Ning; Bakker, Diederich; English, Tim; Bonsing, Thierry – Journal of Teaching in International Business, 2019
A business student's overseas internship is a unique place to investigate what knowledge/skills or personal traits that are important for their future career. This research consists of two stages: (1) First, we qualitatively analyzed students' internship reports to explore what knowledge or skills and what personal traits are perceived to be…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Business Administration Education, International Trade, Internship Programs
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Behle, Heike – Policy Reviews in Higher Education, 2020
Employability has become one of the most important outcomes of higher education despite it being weakly conceptualised for the sector. The lack of an accepted conceptualisation to address students' and graduates' employability results in difficulties when comparing research findings and therefore in assessing quality in higher education provision.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Graduates, Employment Potential, Classification
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Xiaohao, Ding; Feifei, Zhu – Chinese Education & Society, 2018
Investment of time in internship and in-school learning or study are two ways to accumulate human capital for college students. The authors take I&S input as two impacting factors for graduates' starting salaries to construct an I&S input allocation model minimizing "psychological cost." The model inference indicates that the…
Descriptors: College Students, Human Capital, Salaries, 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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