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Niels van der Baan; Wendy Nuis; Simon Beausaert; Wim Gijselaers; Inken Gast – Studies in Higher Education, 2024
Higher education plays a pivotal role in preparing students for the dynamic and complex labour market. Helping students develop employability competences supports them in obtaining the necessary expertise and skills to facilitate their transition to the labour market and to address the requirements of their new jobs. Employability competences are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Employment Potential, Career Counseling
Bas T. Agricola; Fiona Veraa; Mieke van Diepen; Louise Elffers – Journal of Postsecondary Student Success, 2024
The transition from secondary education to the first year of higher education is a phase in which students are faced with many challenges. First-year students may lack the academic capital that is needed to understand explicit and implicit rules of higher education. We investigated students' participation in a preacademic program and the…
Descriptors: Social Capital, Student Adjustment, College Freshmen, Student Experience
Pesonen, Henri V.; Waltz, Mitzi; Fabri, Marc; Lahdelma, Minja; Syurina, Elena V. – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2021
Despite the steps taken to improve support in universities, many students and graduates with autism face a substantial employment gap when completing university as compared to any other student group with disabilities. The literature shows that often students with autism do not have appropriate support to prepare them for entering the workforce.…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Students with Disabilities, College Students
Duarte, Joana; Günther-van der Meij, Mirjam – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2022
The paper focuses on translanguaging practices of highly skilled refugees in a transition program in Dutch higher education. The pathways for refugees to enter higher education are full of obstacles. Acquiring the new language at a university level is one of the biggest challenges. Many institutions offer 'transition programs' to prepare refugees…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Language Usage, Native Language, Second Language Learning
van Herpen, Sanne G. A.; Meeuwisse, Marieke; Hofman, W. H. Adriaan; Severiens, Sabine E. – Studies in Higher Education, 2020
Given the challenging transition from secondary school into higher education, this quasi-experimental study measured the effects of a pre-academic programme (i.e. before starting at university) on student-faculty interactions, student-peer interactions, sense of belonging, and first-year academic performance. Fifty-eight first-year students…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Sense of Community, Academic Achievement, Transitional Programs
Nelissen, Jo M. C. – Curriculum and Teaching, 2017
From the 1930s onwards, the problem of the transition from primary to secondary school has been a source of discussion and contradiction in the Netherlands. For many years it has been disputed whether this transition problem should be conceived as a problem of selection (testing) or as an educational problem (reforming the instruction and…
Descriptors: Transitional Programs, Foreign Countries, Psychological Patterns, Cognitive Processes
Biemans, Harm; Mariën, Hans; Fleur, Erik; Tobi, Hilde; Nieuwenhuis, Loek; Runhaar, Piety – Vocations and Learning, 2016
To improve students' transitions between successive educational levels, continuing learning pathways are being designed and implemented in many countries. This study was carried out to examine the effects of the Green Lycea (GL) as critical cases of continuing learning pathways in vocational education in The Netherlands. The GL were compared with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Higher Education, Continuing Education
Davis, John M.; Ravenscroft, John; Bizas, Nik – Child Care in Practice, 2015
This paper utilises qualitative and quantitative findings from the Facilitating Inclusive Education and Supporting the Transition Agenda (FIESTA) project that carried out a survey of professionals and focus groups/interviews with parents and children to understand the context of transition, inclusion and collaborative working. The paper contrasts…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mixed Methods Research, Disabilities, Special Needs Students
Cuconato, Morena; du Bois-Reymond, Manuela; Lunabba, Harry – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2015
This article discusses how teachers perceive their role in supporting and guiding students in transitions. Do teachers see themselves more as gatekeepers or as supporters? The analysis draws upon qualitative data collected in Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, and Finland. Based on the analysis of teachers' interviews, we developed three…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Role, Qualitative Research
Bindels-de Heus, Karen G. C. B.; van Staa, AnneLoes; van Vliet, Ingeborg; Ewals, Frans V. P. M.; Hilberink, Sander R. – Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2013
Many children with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities (PIMD) now reach adulthood. The aim of this study was to elicit parents' experiences with the transfer from pediatric to adult medical care. A convenience sample of 131 Dutch parents of young people with PIMD (16--26 years) completed a web-based questionnaire. Twenty-two percent of…
Descriptors: Severe Mental Retardation, Severe Disabilities, Multiple Disabilities, Transfer Policy
Akkerman, Sanne F.; Bakker, Arthur – Vocations and Learning, 2012
In vocational education, there is an ongoing discussion about problems occurring in school-work transitions and in relating school and work-based learning processes. Apprenticeships have been identified as valuable learning and working trajectories for making successful transitions and relations between school and work. However, they have been…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Education Work Relationship, Apprenticeships, Foreign Countries
Bal, P. Matthijs; Visser, Michel S. – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2011
This article investigates the factors influencing the motivation to continue working after retirement among a sample of Dutch teachers. Based on previous research, it was proposed that teachers will be motivated to work after their legal retirement age when organizational support, possibilities to change work roles and financial needs are high.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching (Occupation), Teacher Retirement, Secondary School Teachers
Belyakov, Alexander; Cremonini, Leon; Mfusi, Mankolo; Rippner, Jennifer – Institute for Higher Education Policy, 2009
Increased student access to higher education institutions has been associated with the recent proliferation of higher education opportunities throughout the world. Various countries have undertaken numerous initiatives to increase access, such as the Netherlands with its involvement in the Bologna Process and the United States with Achieve Inc.'s…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Access to Education, Transitional Programs
Harrison, Jeremy; McLeish, Henry – 1987
Written for practitioners rather than policymakers, this document is intended for those who seek to relate educational and training opportunities to local and individual needs; use fresh approaches to integrated services for young people trapped by unemployment, social and economic change, and poor living conditions; and achieve high quality…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Guidance, Education Work Relationship, Employment Potential
Sailor, Wayne – 1989
This monograph provides a review of the literature on the transition of students with disabilities into the adult world and an analysis of various models of transition that have emerged in western Europe in comparison with those in the United States. An introduction identifies key definitional issues in transition: defining the population,…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Comparative Education, Definitions, Disabilities
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