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Pat O'Connor; Nicky Le Feuvre; Sevil Sümer – Policy Futures in Education, 2024
Insecurity and intense competition for permanent academic positions appear to be common experiences for early career researchers across the globe. With academic precarity now firmly on the international research and policy agenda, this article looks comparatively at postdoc precarity in three European countries: Ireland, Norway and Switzerland. It…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Postdoctoral Education, Financial Support, Labor Market
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Andrew Boocock – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2025
In this article the role of Human Resource Management (HRM) in the UK Higher Education (HE) sector is interrogated, with a focus on the Gig Academy. A literature review of the casualisation of academics in the sector is undertaken and critiqued through the consultative unitarist values and behaviours of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, College Faculty, Part Time Faculty, Adjunct Faculty
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Tashieka Simone Burris-Melville; Shalieka Tiffia Burris; Kristin Bledsoe – IGI Global, 2024
Many businesses and organizations struggle with implementing effective teamwork, leading to confusion, stress, and subpar results. In higher education, students often graduate without the necessary teamwork skills, leaving them unprepared for the demands of the modern workplace. "Empowering Teams in Higher Education: Strategies for…
Descriptors: Teamwork, Professional Development, Higher Education, Guides
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Ori Eyal; Izhak Berkovich – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2024
Purpose: The current body of research has separately examined ethics education design and evaluation, as well as the development of ethical identity in managers. However, a notable deficiency in the literature lies in the absence of a comprehensive investigation into the interconnections between these two areas. This conceptual paper aims to…
Descriptors: Ethical Instruction, Administration, Higher Education, Labor Force Development
Hanks, Angela; Madland, David – Center for American Progress, 2018
High-quality workforce training can help workers get good jobs, improve the efficiency of businesses, and boost productivity in the economy. Unfortunately, the United States supports too little workforce training, and the training it does support too often fails to lead to good jobs or boost productivity. To improve job quality, a range of reforms…
Descriptors: Job Training, Labor Force Development, Models, Change Strategies
Rakoczy, Michelle Fahey – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The information technology field changes at a fast rate and, combined with the fast pace of change in the higher education environment, it is more important than ever that Information Technology professionals be productive and that retention rate increase in this field. This phenomenological study is an exploration of the professional experiences…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Higher Education, Professional Personnel, Models
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Seitzer, Helen – Journal of Education Policy, 2023
Over the last 20 years, since the launch of its flagship study the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has become a behemoth of transnational influence on education policy making. To better understand the evolution of the OECD's perspective on education and the…
Descriptors: International Organizations, Educational Objectives, Educational Policy, Policy Formation
Glazer, Randy – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Employee turnover continues to be discussed as an outcome in Human Resources (HR), but comparatively few studies have examined the relationship between turnover as the independent variable and institutional outcomes. Although the call to HR practitioners has often been made over the past 20 years regarding the importance of tying HR programs and…
Descriptors: Labor Turnover, Employees, Correlation, Human Resources
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Satterly, Brent A.; Cullen, Jennifer; Dyson, Donald A. – Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 2018
Given the changing composition of faculty, intergenerational workforce needs and skill sets must be taken into account when creating mentoring relationships. The traditional nature of academia lends itself to an intergenerational environment of Millennials in novice positions, while tenured faculty, typically GenXers and Boomers, act as mentors in…
Descriptors: Mentors, Models, Teaching Methods, Intergenerational Programs
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Braband, Gangolf; Powell, Justin J. W. – European Journal of Higher Education, 2021
At the heart of Western Europe and culturally embedded in the 'Greater Region,' Luxembourg for centuries sent its youth abroad for tertiary education, without its own national university. Evolving provisions of postsecondary education after 1945 followed construction of several teaching and research institutes that did not offer full-fledged…
Descriptors: Research Universities, Capacity Building, Foreign Countries, Educational History
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Galoyan, Tamara; Betts, Kristen – Journal of Continuing Higher Education, 2021
Transfer of knowledge, skills, and experience is critical in an increasingly competitive knowledge-based global economy. Research indicates major issues relating to transfer of learning, including (a) the complex nature of transfer, (b) the multiple variables affecting transfer, and (c) the limited knowledge of instructional methodologies for…
Descriptors: Models, Transfer of Training, Higher Education, Concept Formation
Chung, Leeva C.; McArdle-Jaimes, Daniel – Liberal Education, 2019
Achieving learning outcomes during a semester- or quarter-long course is no guarantee that students "got it"--that students have learned how to learn or that they have successfully bridged the gap between theory and practice. Higher education has developed diverse pedagogical approaches to expand the notion of teaching. Over the past…
Descriptors: Career Development, Community Involvement, Higher Education, Partnerships in Education
Smithsonian Science Education Center, 2022
The Smithsonian Science Education Center in collaboration with Howard University received a Planning Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF)'s Inclusion across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science (INCLUDES) and Discovery Research PreK-12 (DRK-12) (Grant Award #2040784) for the…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Labor Market, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers
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Lee, Ahlam – Educational Review, 2022
This study developed a conceptual model of hierarchical microaggression phenomena in colleges and universities in the United States. Young, Anderson, and Steward coined the term "hierarchical microaggression" in 2015, which refers to microaggression towards defenceless and less powerful stakeholders. Because the hierarchical…
Descriptors: Models, Higher Education, Aggression, Bullying
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Igwe, Paul Agu; Lock, Deborah; Rugara, David Gamariel – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2022
Employability is a set of skills, knowledge and personal attributes that make an individual adapt to changes in the labour market. This study applies 'Human Capital Theory' (HCT) and the 'theory of Interrole Learning Transfer' (ILT) to examine factors which affect the attitudes, motivations and actions of learners towards their future…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Employment Potential, Higher Education, Human Capital
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