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Do, Deniz – Statistics Canada, 2020
This report is part of a series of documents released in conjunction with the United Nations' International Decade for People of African Descent (2015 to 2024) and Black History Month. It aims to provide insight into some of the key socioeconomic characteristics of Canada's Black communities. The first report in this series titled "Diversity…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Blacks, Educational Attainment, Employment Patterns
Patrignani, Pietro; Hedges, Sophie; Conlon, Gavan – UK Department for Education, 2017
This factsheet provides provisional information on the incidence of apprenticeships in England using information between 2010/11 and 2014/15 from the Individualised Learner Record (ILR) and Employer Data Service (EDS) further matched to the Inter-Departmental Business Register (IDBR). Specifically, it presents the number of apprenticeship starts…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Incidence, Apprenticeships, Industry
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Sokolova, G. N. – Russian Education and Society, 2013
In Belarus, the ways in which statistics are compiled, the complex rules for registering as unemployed, and the segmentation of the labor market and job-seeking activities, all combine to hide the actual levels of employment and unemployment. This in turn makes it difficult to develop appropriate and effective labor policies, and to have support…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Employment Patterns, Labor Market, Unemployment
Universities UK, 2018
The report analyses the last 10 years in higher education, focusing on applications, student demographics and graduate outcomes; staff backgrounds and expertise; and the income and expenditure of higher education institutions. Main findings include: (1) Demand for university places from 18-year-olds has increased, with those from less advantaged…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Trends, Trend Analysis, Undergraduate Students
Universities UK, 2017
The report presents patterns and trends in data on students and staff at UK higher education institutions covering a 10-year period that has seen a transition to new higher education funding systems across a large part of the UK. Patterns in income and expenditure of UK higher education institutions in 2015-16 are considered. For the first time…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Trends, Higher Education, Trend Analysis
Universities UK, 2016
This report provides an interim update to the Universities UK "Patterns" series, before the publication of the full "Patterns and Trends" publication in spring 2017. It includes updates of the main charts included in the 2015 publication, covering trends in student and staff numbers and finances of the UK higher education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Trends, Trend Analysis
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Neumann, Ruth; Tan, Kim Khim – Studies in Higher Education, 2011
Within universities there is often still an implicit assumption that the doctorate is preparation for an academic career. Yet for over a decade there has been evidence in a number of Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries that there are increasing numbers of students undertaking a doctorate and that larger…
Descriptors: Employment, Doctoral Degrees, Foreign Countries, Knowledge Economy
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Vosko, Leah F. – Social Indicators Research, 2008
This article explores the transnational regulation of temporary work. Analyzing the terms of the EU "Directive on Fixed-Term Work (1999), the ILO "Convention on Private Employment Agencies" (1997), the ILO "Recommendation on the Employment Relationship" (2006), and a draft EU Directive on "Temporary Agency Work"…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Temporary Employment, Labor, Statistical Data
White, Margaret – British Columbia Teachers' Federation, 2009
In 2006, there were an estimated 181,000 low-income children in the province, with British Columbia (BC) reporting the highest before-tax child poverty rate (21.9%) in Canada (15.8%) for the fifth year in a row. This was the news in the "2008 Child Poverty Report Card" recently released by the First Call: BC Child and Youth Advocacy…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Research, Income, Public Education
Universities UK, 2010
This paper presents facts and figures of the international higher education. Facts reveal that the UK sells more brainpower per capita than anywhere else in the world. The UK has 1% of the world's population but undertakes 5% of the world's scientific research and produces 14% of the world's most highly cited papers (Universities UK 2010). More…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Campuses, Student Mobility
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris (France). – 1992
This document presents statistical data from the countries of France, Finland, the Netherlands, Japan, Italy, and Norway regarding the flows of graduates from higher education and their entry into the workforce. Among the statistical data presented are the trends and current situation in each country for such areas as college enrollments and…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Comparative Analysis, Employment Opportunities, Employment Patterns
von Zur-Muehlen, Max – 1975
A profile of the socio-economic characteristics of the permanent residents of Canada holding an earned doctorate is presented. In 1973, there were 27,410 Canadian residents who had obtained an earned doctorate. (Holders of such professional doctoral degrees as Doctor of Medicine are excluded from this study.) Only 9 percent of the Ph.Ds were…
Descriptors: Doctoral Degrees, Employment Patterns, Females, Foreign Countries
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Kohler, Helmut – Zeitschrift fur Padagogik, 1989
Analyzes data from a 1983 poll among West German university teachers to determine whether changing attitudes toward the role of women in teaching and research has influenced the structure of the employment of female professors. Comparison with earlier statistics shows that some traditional patterns of employment of female academics have persisted.…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Data Analysis, Employment Patterns, Foreign Countries
National Science Foundation, Washington, DC. Div. of Science Resources Studies. – 1994
This pocket guide contains a collection of graphed data, available in 1994, on science and technology funding patterns within the United States, public attitudes toward science and technology, and international trends in science and technology. Sections contain: (1) national research and development (R&D) funding patterns; (2) academic R&D…
Descriptors: Educational Trends, Employment Patterns, Federal Government, Financial Support
Holmes, Jeffrey; von Zur-Muehlen, Max – 1979
The academic rank distribution of full-time faculty at Canadian universities is examined and the potential rank distribution until 1984-1985 is projected. Changes in the distribution are simulated assuming that the number of full-time teachers remains constant during that period. At the national level, three separate projections are presented…
Descriptors: Academic Rank (Professional), Age, Career Ladders, College Faculty
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