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Samira ElAtia; Leticia Nadler Gomez; Elissa Corsi – Journal of Research on Leadership Education, 2024
Although the teaching profession is dominated by women in Canada, they are still under-represented in the top leadership roles in the education system. This study highlights the current situation in Alberta, examines the barriers to women progressing to the top positions in the field of education and presents the most recurrent suggestions as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Instructional Leadership, Disproportionate Representation
Melissa Anne White – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Students with an intellectual disability encounter challenges throughout their educational journey and as they transition to adulthood. Securing and maintaining competitive employment for individuals with an intellectual disability is harder for them than for their non-disabled peers. The problem addressed in this qualitative, phenomenological…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Intellectual Disability, Young Adults, Employment Potential
Bambi Jill Fritsche – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This qualitative case study is situated in the area of educational leadership. It aims to explore possible strategies for increasing community-integrated employment for graduates of a Job Training Coordination Program at OakVeil High School. It is important to consider the lived experiences, hopes, fears, and barriers experienced from a…
Descriptors: Caregiver Attitudes, Students with Disabilities, Job Training, Employment Patterns
National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2022
This publication provides a summary of the outcomes of international students who completed a nationally recognised vocational education and training (VET) qualification in Australia during 2020 using data collected in mid-2021. These students were surveyed as an additional component to the 2021 National Student Outcomes Survey. Information is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Foreign Students, Qualifications
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Chen, Charles P.; Jagtiani, Komila – Australian Journal of Career Development, 2021
It is generally assumed that visible actors in the performing arts industry maintain overall wellness despite the knowledge that an actor's life is often characterized by instability. While an actor's performance is often critiqued subjectively and critically, the variety of occupational risks associated with an actor's well-being is less closely…
Descriptors: Theater Arts, Well Being, Wellness, Professional Personnel
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Hansberry, Priscilla; Gerhardt, Trevor – International Review of Education, 2023
In 2019, a decline in apprenticeship starts prompted the London Borough of Hounslow to make an apprenticeship pledge in its Corporate Plan 2019-2024, committing to create 4,000 new apprenticeships and training opportunities to help young people into work. This article investigates experiences of young apprentices in Hounslow before and during the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Youth, Apprenticeships, COVID-19
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Bleiberg, Joshua F.; Kraft, Matthew A. – Education Finance and Policy, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic upended the U.S. education system in ways that dramatically affected the jobs of K-12 employees. However, there remains considerable uncertainty about the nature and degree of staffing challenges during the pandemic. We draw on data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and State Education Agencies (SEA) to describe…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Labor Market, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Moore, Katherine – International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 2021
This article examines the employment trajectories of 50 young job seekers to gain insight into the critical factors that influence a young person's journey toward sustainable employment. Drawing on the employability and youth unemployment literatures, the analysis revealed that lower levels of education, limited access to transport and housing,…
Descriptors: Employment Potential, Employment Patterns, Youth Employment, Unemployment
Simmons, Allen H., II – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The devastating effects of the Novel Coronavirus and the impact that stay-at-home orders and mask mandates have placed on businesses have caused countries to plummet into economic recession. State quarantine measures and the fear of contracting the virus have led to structural change, resulting in more people enlisting on welfare rolls. The…
Descriptors: Vendors, Welfare Recipients, Employment Patterns, COVID-19
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Mpia Héritier Nsenge; Mburu Lucy Waruguru; Mwendia Simon Nyaga – SAGE Open, 2023
High unemployment rates in many developing countries have prompted research to focus on sustainability and inclusiveness of employment in line with the sustainable development goal target 8.6. The democratic republic of Congo (DRC) in sub-Saharan Africa experiences one of the highest youth unemployment rates owing to its long-term socio-political…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Employment Potential, College Graduates, Information Science Education
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Tryding, Per – Learning Organization, 2022
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to explore how current trends in organization -- government regulation, authoritarian governance and digitalization acts specifically to stop relevant change of a Nordic model. These trends unfold in organizational contexts by revoking mandates, stopping information sharing and eroding trust. When these…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Models, Educational Trends, Organizational Change
Fung, Sara; Haspel, Jessica; Kniffen, Susanna; Wondra, Danielle – Children Now, 2022
Employment is foundational to young people's successful transition into adulthood, yet many youth with lived experience in the foster care system struggle to obtain employment that provides a living wage. Youth with foster care experience typically do not have the same contacts and connections to employment opportunities as youth who have not been…
Descriptors: Youth, Foster Care, Barriers, Career Readiness
Cooper, David; Martinez Hickey, Sebastian – Economic Policy Institute, 2022
Ever since students began returning to classrooms in the late summer and fall of 2021, countless news stories have described intense staffing shortages in primary and secondary schools. The pandemic has wreaked havoc on the country's K-12 educational workforce, with overworked educators retiring or leaving the profession, insufficient substitute…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, COVID-19, Pandemics, Public Schools
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Aboagye, Bernard; Puoza, Julius Caesar – Journal of Teaching and Learning for Graduate Employability, 2021
Although the Government of Ghana gives considerable attention to technical education to accelerate national development, some graduates remain unemployed for years after graduation. In this study, employability of mechanical engineering graduates from Sunyani Technical University of Ghana is presented. It assessed the employment status and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Employment Potential, Engineering Education, College Graduates
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Xu, Cora Lingling; Ma, Yin – Journal of Education and Work, 2023
This article investigates how regional inequalities shape the employment seeking experiences and behaviour of graduates by drawing on the case of Chinese Master's graduates under COVID-19. Based on interviews with graduates who chose to work as the 'targeted selected graduates' (TSG) of "University A," located in the underdeveloped…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Graduates, Geographic Regions, Employment Patterns
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