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The New Future and the Employment Imperative: Effectively Aligning Student Interest, Industry Needs and University Programmes
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Abhilasha Singh; Patrick Blessinger – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate the differences between labour market requirements in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in the 21st century and university graduates' level of knowledge, skills and aspects of competence (KSAs) qualification benchmark. Design/methodology/approach: The study used a discourse analysis methodology,…
Descriptors: Employment, Student Interests, Labor Market, College Graduates
Parental Involvement and University Graduate Employment in China
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Liu, Dian – Journal of Education and Work, 2016
In the expanded higher education in China, middle-class students are found to have better access to job information than their underprivileged counterparts; they also gain better jobs in the labour market. Researchers have turned to social capital theory to explain this phenomenon, claiming that middle-class students with wider social network and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Participation, College Graduates, Middle Class
There's More Than Just the Newspaper: A Pilot Study on the Social Literacies Required by Young Job Seekers.
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Weatherill, Pamela; Boyd, Elizabeth Reid – 2001
A study investigated job search literacies for a small sample of Western Australian youth currently seeking employment. Participants were 10 females and 4 males aged 15-24. The research design involved the presentation of job search information and exercises to develop literacy competencies in a participative workshop format. Participants…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Developed Nations, Foreign Countries, Functional Literacy