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Direct linkDavis Vo; Cecilia Rios-Aguilar – Community College Review, 2025
Objective: Community college baccalaureate (CCB) programs are expanding across the nation, particularly in California--home of the largest and most ethnically/racially diverse community college system in the nation. CCB programs provide many benefits, two of which include providing an accessible and affordable pathway towards baccalaureate…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Bachelors Degrees, College Applicants, Labor Force Development
Lang, Josephine – International Journal of Information and Learning Technology, 2023
Purpose: Since new digital micro-credential technologies emerged a decade ago, there has been a rapid rise in micro-credentials in the education landscape. Much has been promised about these educational technologies, yet there is much confusion by key stakeholders in the digital micro-credential ecosystem. This confusion has led to significant…
Descriptors: Labor Force Development, Job Skills, Universities, Lifelong Learning
Betsy Alpert – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Georgia established the Dual Enrollment Accelerated Career Diploma (ACD) program in 2015 to address its skilled trades workforce shortage (Dual Enrollment Act, 2015: Williams, 2015). ACD allows high school students to earn their diplomas by replacing several of their graduation-required credits with technical college credentials earned through…
Descriptors: School Counselors, High Schools, Dual Enrollment, Acceleration (Education)
Download full textJohannes K. Schmees; Janika Grunau – International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2025
Context: Unlike education policy for general education, technical and vocational education and training (TVET) policy often focuses on societal needs, ignoring the attitudes and subsequent behaviors of learners. As a result, the impact of TVET policies is not what was expected and sometimes even counterproductive. Starting from this, we use…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Career and Technical Education, Educational Policy, Labor Market
Li, Junmin; Pilz, Matthias – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2023
The transferability of vocational education and training (VET) systems is a central issue within international comparative VET research. However, scholars working in related disciplines also focus on the international cooperation associated with VET. This literature review presents relevant findings from the field of VET research, but also from…
Descriptors: International Cooperation, Vocational Education, Comparative Education, Educational Research
Elizabeth A. Roumell; Florin D. Salajan – Commission for International Adult Education, 2023
Lifelong Learning (LLL) has become a pliable term in educational discourse running the risk of meaning both everything and nothing, making it necessary to look at how the notion of LLL has been taken up in different contexts, especially within the context of policy development. Because of the inconsistent ways LLL has been peppered throughout…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Lifelong Learning, Adult Education, Educational Policy
Kathleen Bolter, Contributor; Tim Bartik, Contributor; Brad Hershbein, Contributor; Michelle Miller-Adams, Contributor; Lee Adams, Contributor; Brian Asquith, Contributor; Alfonso Hernandez, Contributor; Kyle Huisman, Contributor; Iryna V. Lendel, Contributor; Gabrielle Pepin, Contributor; Bridget Timmeney, Contributor; Beth Truesdale, Contributor; Yulya Truskinovsky, Contributor – W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2024
The Policies for Place initiative at the Upjohn Institute brings together experts from around the country to study community-based strategies to create good jobs--and how to help people get and keep those good jobs. This initiative represents a unique approach to helping people in distressed places: (1) focus on good jobs because research shows…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Place Based Education, Job Development, Employment Opportunities
Carolan, Megan E.; Fishel, Amber Posey – ZERO TO THREE, 2023
The early childhood workforce encompasses a range of professionals across health care, early childhood education, mental health, child welfare, and early intervention. Despite the differences in daily responsibilities, these professionals experience similar systems-level challenges which impede their ability to professionally flourish and risk…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Teachers, Labor Force Development, Sustainability, Compensation (Remuneration)
Lexi Anderson; Ben Erwin; Zeke Perez Jr. – Education Commission of the States, 2023
There are nearly 1 million credentials in the United States that students and workers can take advantage of, but how information about these credentials is collected and communicated is oftentimes inconsistent and hard to access. In February, we invited a group of postsecondary and workforce development experts to consider how policymakers can…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Credentials, Postsecondary Education, Labor Force Development
Macias, Elsa; Reddy, Vikash – Campaign for College Opportunity, 2023
This report discusses the disturbing shortage of nurses and growing impact on this shortage caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition, California's nursing workforce currently does not reflect the state's diversity. Although Latinx residents account for 39% of the state's population, just 10% of California's Registered Nurses are Latinx. While…
Descriptors: Nursing, Nursing Students, Nursing Education, Labor Force Development
Tiffany Neill, Editor; Katharine Frase, Editor; Elizabeth T. Cady, Editor; Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Contributor; Board on Science Education, Contributor; Committee on K-12 STEM Education and Workforce Development in Rural Areas – National Academies Press, 2025
Rural areas can provide a rich context for learning science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), but these communities and the students in them are often overlooked in ongoing efforts to expand access to high-quality K-12 STEM education and workforce development. Addressing barriers, often related to funding, and promoting unrecognized…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Rural Areas, Labor Force Development
Zailani, Zailani; Azis, Mursal; Pasaribu, Munawir; Fanreza, Robie – Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences, 2022
Recently, Madrasa education development, especially in Islamic countries like Indonesia, has become a significant issue that needs the attention of academic and regulators alike. Therefore, the present research examines the impact of government support and human resource (HR) improvement on Madrasa education development in Indonesia. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Islam, Religious Education, Educational Development
White, Marie – Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 2023
This paper explores how leadership is addressed within Australia's National Children's Education and Care Workforce Strategy (ACECQA, 2021). The Workforce Strategy has been widely welcomed, arriving at a time of unprecedented workforce pressures in the early childhood education and care (ECEC) sector. Yet, on close examination there appears an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Leadership, Early Childhood Teachers
Griffioen, Didi M. E.; Ashwin, Paul; Scholkmann, Antonia – Policy Reviews in Higher Education, 2021
In this article, we examine how policy documents from three European countries -- the Netherlands, Germany and England -- position a key outcome of higher education: the development of high-level professionals. Our findings show significant differences between the policies in the three countries in terms of in definitions of high-level…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Policy, Labor Force Development
Ewart Keep – Centre on Skills, Knowledge and Organisational Performance (SKOPE), 2025
This paper represents the latest in a line of papers and think pieces that the author has prepared on this topic -- for the UK government, the UK Skills and Productivity Board, and the Scottish Government and Scottish Funding Council -- since 2014. It seeks to explain why trying to bring skills supply into closer alignment with demand for skills…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Skill Development, Supply and Demand, Employer Attitudes
