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Salvà-Mut, Francesca; Tugores-Ques, María; Quintana-Murci, Elena – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2018
This article presents the research results from a study that was conducted on Spanish youths aged 25-29 years who are neither in employment nor education and training (NEET). Their characteristics were analysed as well as the differential aspects in relation to people who are in employment, education or training. A typology of NEETs was also…
Descriptors: Economic Climate, Classification, Employment, Biographies
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Bar-Am, Ran; Arar, Osama – European Journal of Educational Research, 2017
This article deals with the problem of student dropout during the first year in a higher education institution. To date, no model on a budget has been developed and tested to prevent dropout among Engineering Students. This case study was conducted among first-year students taking evening classes in two practical engineering colleges in Israel.…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Dropout Prevention, Budgets, Engineering Education
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Adam, Saeed; Adom, Dickson; Bediako, Asare Baffour – Journal of Education and Practice, 2016
Education is a key to the realization of most of the goals and targets of the global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Education as a development tool is upheld by most development theorist as essential in the progression of every society. However, in recent times school dropout has become a serious canker in Ghanaian societies, especially in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Schools, At Risk Students, Sustainable Development
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Atienzo, Erika E.; Campero, Lourdes; Marín, Eréndira; González, Guillermo – International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education, 2017
In impoverished communities in Mexico, most adolescent mothers do not attend school; but typically, they become pregnant once they dropped out. Understanding the experiences of adolescents who have had a pregnancy and continue in school is complicated since few manage to do it. The goal of this study is to describe experiences within the family…
Descriptors: Pregnancy, Mixed Methods Research, Poverty, Mothers
Waters Zelbovitz, Karyn T. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This mixed methods study was designed to explore why students leave college before graduation and draws upon their phenomenological insights, educational experiences, and readmission reflections. This study used a convergent parallel design that matched the qualitative content from interviews and quantitative responses to questionnaires to…
Descriptors: Phenomenology, Dropouts, Qualitative Research, College Students