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OECD Publishing, 2018
Previous Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and European Union (EU) work has shown that even native-born children with immigrant parents face persistent disadvantage in the education system, the school-to-work transition and the labour market. To which degree are these linked with their immigration background, i.e. with…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Migrant Children, Case Studies, Foreign Countries
Cedefop - European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training, 2019
This research paper is one in a series produced as part of the Cedefop project The changing nature and role of VET (2016-18). The aim of the paper is to provide an overview of how CVET is conceptualised in various international level policy documents and how it is referred to across countries. It discusses national conceptions of CVET, the…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Continuing Education, Role of Education, Educational Change
Capelle, Jean – 1977
A group of European countries cooperated to conduct a two-year Special Project Mobility with the aim of proposing practical ways of improving information and overcoming obstacles to academic mobility after they had been identified. The recommendations are grouped here in five categories: (1) organization and distribution of information; (2)…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, College Graduates, Educational Mobility, Faculty Mobility
Abrahamsson, Kenneth – 1989
It is necessary to develop some comparative indicators in order to describe and compare the systems of education in countries other than one's own. Access to higher education is an important indicator. Currently, 50 percent of the Swedish adult population takes part in some organized learning activity every year and 50 percent of the student…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Articulation (Education), Comparative Education
Tuijnman, Albert – 1989
A study investigated the contribution of adult education in complementing and mediating the effects of early formal schooling on life chances, job satisfaction, and general well-being. Data collected for the cohort of Swedish men followed up in the Malmo study from 1938 to 1988 were examined. The study used measures of home background, disposition…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Development, Continuing Education, Education Work Relationship
McIntosh, Steven; Steedman, Hilary – 2000
In order to develop conclusions about future policy aimed at addressing the challenge of workers at risk because of low skills, the NEWSKILLS project combined scientific analysis with consultation with social partner representatives, policy analysis, and field work in firms. Population proportions in International Standard Classification of…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Basic Education, At Risk Persons, Basic Skills