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Mark Aaron Polger – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 2024
This qualitative study examines how academic librarians understand, conceptualize, and describe their teacher identity. The role of the academic librarian has greatly changed due to the advent of information technology. Traditionally, they were generalists, who were responsible for selecting and maintaining library collections. Academic librarian…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Information Literacy, Courses, Librarians
Cedefop - European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training, 2021
COVID-19 and social distancing have crashed into the structural shifts brought about by the fourth industrial revolution. And while meeting skill needs has been on employers' and policy-makers' agendas for long, investing in people in a more comprehensive way is becoming more urgent: as European economies are picking up speed, the hunt for talent…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Foreign Countries, Job Development
Dian Rachmawati; Sheerad Sahid; Mohd. Izwan Mahmud – Journal on Efficiency and Responsibility in Education and Science, 2024
Factors that represent the tendency to become job creators are proxied to entrepreneurial characteristics. Meanwhile, factors that represent career readiness include digital literacy, entrepreneurial mindset, work skills, and ICT skills. A population of economic education undergraduate students teaching at universities in Indonesia was used, using…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Job Applicants, Career Readiness, Entrepreneurship
Sawada, Yasuyuki – International Journal of Training Research, 2019
Development economists have considered physical infrastructure to be a precondition for industrialization and economic development. Infrastructure investments play a particularly important role in expanding overall employment opportunities either directly by absorbing workers or indirectly by crowding in private investments, technology adoption,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Job Development, Labor Force Development, Job Skills
Scheef, Andrew R.; Walker, Zachary M.; Barrio, Brenda L. – International Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 2019
Objective: In order to increase employment opportunities for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDDs), professionals are tasked with designing and implementing job training services to youth preparing to enter the job market. Having a better understanding of desirable employability skills aids in allowing professionals…
Descriptors: Employment Potential, Job Skills, Job Training, Youth
OECD Publishing, 2017
This report identifies effective strategies to tackle skills imbalances in South Africa. It provides an assessment of practices and policies in the following areas: the collection and use of information on skill needs to foster a better alignment of skills acquisitions with labour market needs; education and training policies targeting skills…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Job Skills, Skill Development, Educational Practices
Sin, Cristina; Tavares, Orlanda; Amaral, Alberto – Tertiary Education and Management, 2016
The paper examines to whom Portuguese students attribute responsibility for the development of employability, and what extra-curricular activities they undertake to improve their employability. Particular focus lies upon how far students internalise responsibility for employability and if/how they seek to position themselves in the job market. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, College Graduates, Employment Potential
Kvetan, Vladimir, Ed. – Cedefop - European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training, 2014
Reliable and consistent time series are essential to any kind of economic forecasting. Skills forecasting needs to combine data from national accounts and labour force surveys, with the pan-European dimension of Cedefop's skills supply and demand forecasts, relying on different international classification standards. Sectoral classification (NACE)…
Descriptors: Coping, Classification, Educational Change, Educational Practices
Griffin, Tabatha, Ed.; Beddie, Francesca, Ed. – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2011
One of the challenges facing Australia is the ageing of the population. Of major concern, especially to government, is that the dependency ratio--a measure of the burden that economically active persons carry by supporting dependent persons--will increase significantly unless older people keep working or immigration is used to change the…
Descriptors: Employment Services, Employment Potential, Maturity (Individuals), Age Discrimination

Munro, Anne; Rainbird, Helen – New Technology, Work and Employment, 2002
Interviews (n=350) and a survey (n=323) of managers, trainers, and union representatives in British health care agencies showed that technology caused some job enlargement and enrichment; positive or negative effects depended on context. Other jobs were deskilled due to work organization, not technology. Technology's impact on job change was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Job Development, Job Skills, Public Sector
Maitra, Srabani; Shan, Hongxia – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2007
Purpose--The paper seeks to explore workers' learning in relation to the racialized and gendered organization of contingent work. Design/methodology/approach--This paper is informed by Marxist theorization of labour power and learning. It draws on the interview data of 24 highly educated immigrant women from the research project "Skilled In…
Descriptors: Females, Work Environment, Immigrants, Employed Women

Mills, Vince – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2002
The ideological transformation of the Labour Party to New Labour has resulted in supply-side approaches to lifelong learning that are not succeeding in Scotland's low-wage, low-skill economy. Despite the rhetoric, acquiring job skills does not automatically result in employability, without government intervention. (Contains 15 references.) (SK)
Descriptors: Employment Potential, Foreign Countries, Government Role, Ideology
Karasek, Robert A. – Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, 2004
The conducivity process, a methodology for creating healthier workplaces by promoting conducive production, is illustrated through the use of the "conducivity game" developed in the NordNet Project in Sweden, which was an action research project to test a job redesign methodology. The project combined the "conducivity" hypotheses about a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Employees, Job Development, Total Quality Management
Clark, Terry W. – 1990
Written for the Australian general reader who wants to understand important trends in vocational education and training, this document describes skills audits and provides an annotated list of publications for those who want more information. The first section defines skills audits as identification of the skills required and held by the work…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Employment Qualifications, Foreign Countries, Industrial Structure

Mason, Geoff – Journal of Education and Work, 2002
In Britain, the retailing, computer services, transportation, and communications industries have hired increasing numbers of college graduates, both because of demand for skills and oversupply of graduates. This has contributed to temporary and permanent job upgrading through expansion of tasks and responsibilities in certain jobs. (Contains 14…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Job Development