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Marquardson, Jim – Journal of Information Systems Education, 2022
Employers want applicants with experience, even for entry-level cybersecurity roles. Universities traditionally help students gain cybersecurity experience by hiring them for on-campus jobs or by matching job seekers to employers for off-campus work. A third option is described in this paper in which universities bring external companies on…
Descriptors: Information Science Education, Information Security, Campuses, Computer Security
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Brodie, Jacqueline; Osowska, Renata – Industry and Higher Education, 2021
Universities globally are aspiring to grow through investing in the delivery of online learning programmes. However, the attrition rate for online learning is high. It has been noted that those students with a sense of belonging to their course experience increased enjoyment and reduced anxiety and are therefore less likely to withdraw. Yet too…
Descriptors: Sense of Community, Online Courses, Teaching Methods, Entrepreneurship
Thomas, Hannah; Jefferson, Anna – Abt Associates, 2022
The Health Profession Opportunity Grants (HPOG) Program provided education and occupational training to Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) recipients and other adults with low incomes. HPOG training is for healthcare occupations that pay well and may experience labor shortages or be in high demand. This report details common themes…
Descriptors: Health Occupations, Grants, Low Income Groups, Allied Health Occupations Education
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Shaw, Sue; Ogilvie, Chrissy – Journal of European Industrial Training, 2010
Purpose: This paper seeks to challenge the view that student part time employment detracts from academic attainment and presents evidence that when linked to formal undergraduate study provides rich learning experiences. It also explores the extent to which formerly accepted pre-requisites for work based learning (WBL) apply in this model and how…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interviews, Questionnaires, Focus Groups
Radcliff, Bill J. – Tennessee Education, 1971
The office model, a plan to emulate actual office practices, is an effective method of bridging the gap between learning the skills in office education and applying them to the world of work. (NQ)
Descriptors: Background, Learning Experience, Office Occupations Education, Program Descriptions
Whitelaw, Kevin – U.S. News & World Report, 1996
Examines the concerns of Kalamazoo College (Michigan) seniors about job security as they approach graduation. Many of the liberal arts school's students seek security over financial success. Kalamazoo programs help prepare graduates with off-campus work experience and exposure to career options. (MSE)
Descriptors: Anxiety, Career Exploration, Career Planning, College Seniors
Altinsel, Zeynep; Rittenberg, William – 1996
This paper describes the Buddy Program for international teaching assistants (ITAs) at Michigan State University (MSU) in East Lansing and presents brief case studies of the program in action. The Buddy Program pairs new ITAs with undergraduates at MSU to help familiarize ITAs with student life at the school and help them assimilate into their new…
Descriptors: College Instruction, College Programs, Cultural Awareness, Extracurricular Activities
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Fetter, Corinne – Perspectives in Peer Programs, 2005
This article discusses Cathedral High School's peer program that involves seniors serving as mentors to freshmen students to help them transition to high school. Students pour into Cathedral from more than 60 different grade schools, and the administration saw a need to connect these students with their peers in order to retain them. The program…
Descriptors: High Schools, Mentors, Family Life, Student Adjustment
Hobbs, Ted – 1982
An evaluation of work experience programs in Queensland state secondary schools had three goals. It examined current practices and identified effective practices to guide program planning and development; based on expected student benefits, it provided a categorization of the types of experience that students encounter during work experience…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Career Education, Education Work Relationship, Educational Research
McCann, Matthew R. – United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1913
One of the most successful attempts to give instruction in the trades in the public high school and at the same time to preserve the best of the traditional high-school course is that begun at Fitchburg, Massachusetts. The cooperative plan, adopted in imitation of that in use in the college of engineering of the University of Cincinnati, has…
Descriptors: Educational History, Industrial Education, Cooperative Education, High School Students
Losekamp, Nancy A. – 1980
This final report presents examples of activities conducted to address the objectives focused on in the 1979-80 Upper Arlington Career Education program. It first presents a list of the twelve objectives for three specified levels: (1) grades K-6--motivation (2 objectives), (2) grades 7-8--orientation (2 objectives), (3) grades 9-10--exploration…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Career Awareness, Career Development, Career Education
Legg, Caroline E.; Jessen Carl A.; Proffitt, Maris M. – Office of Education, Federal Security Agency, 1947
Wartime conditions created a new interest in school-and-work programs for educators because the realities of employment were brought closer to the schools, and for those concerned with the protection of young workers because of the necessity for safeguarding the interests of these young people while on the job. School-and-work programs, under…
Descriptors: Educational History, High School Students, Junior High School Students, Student Employment