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Kaki, Rodrigue S.; Gbedomon, Rodrigue C.; Thoto, Fréjus S.; Houessou, Donald M.; Gandji, Kisito; Aoudji, Augustin K. N. – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2022
This study investigates skills mismatch in the agricultural labour market. Therefore, 336 agriculture employers and 654 agriculture employees were surveyed in Benin. Data were analysed using descriptive statistics and non-parametric tests . The findings showed that even though there is a good educational match for most employees, overeducation is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Job Skills, Agricultural Occupations, Employee Attitudes
Hirsch, Barton J. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2017
Educating high school students for both college and career is difficult. Teaching trade skills seems alien to the academic culture. But new research indicates that soft skills are quite important to judgments of employability and that youth learn many soft skills in traditional academic subjects (e.g., literature). A focus on soft skills allows…
Descriptors: High School Students, African American Students, Job Skills, Job Training
Bartnikowska, Urszula; Cwirynkalo, Katarzyna; Borowska-Beszta, Beata – International Journal of Psycho-Educational Sciences, 2017
The paper examines the category of transition to adulthood of males with intellectual disabilities. It involved secondary analysis of qualitative data from three earlier research projects (Bsdurek 2010, Cwirynkalo 2010, Lysoniek 2014), whose participants were male students of special vocational schools for students with mild intellectual…
Descriptors: Males, Vocational Schools, Mild Intellectual Disability, Foreign Countries