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Download full textCook, Traci; Kappeler, Evelyn; Ellis, Renee; Kominski, Robert; Cooper, Alexia; Smith, Erica; Donoghue, Brecht; Whitestone, Yuko; Snyder, Tom; Aud, Susan; Williamson, Lisa; Henderson, Steve; Steffen, Barry; Madans, Jennifer; Lukacs, Susan; Pastor, Patricia; Goldstrom, Ingrid; Han, Beth; Bures, Regina; Chamberlain, Seth; Despain, Jason; Chadwick, Laura; Park, Jennifer – Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics, 2014
The well-being of young adults in the United States today remains an area of key interest to the public and policy-makers alike. This age group faces the well-known challenges of achieving financial and social independence while forming their own households at a time of greater economic uncertainty than in the past. Better understanding of the…
Descriptors: Economic Climate, Individual Needs, Achievement, Well Being
Kalleberg, Arne L.; Dunn, Michael – Center for Analysis of Postsecondary Education and Employment, 2014
The extent to which community college students experience labor market success depends on both the attributes of the individual students and the characteristics of the community colleges they attend. In this paper, we examine the impact of community college characteristics on the earnings of first-time college students who enrolled in the North…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Labor Market, Institutional Characteristics
Direct linkBichsel, Jacqueline – EDUCAUSE, 2014
The professionals making up the current higher education IT workforce have been asked to adjust to a culture of increased IT consumerization, more sourcing options, broader interest in IT's transformative potential, and decreased resources. Disruptions that include the bring-your-own-everything era, cloud computing, new management practices,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Information Technology, Surveys, Focus Groups
UNICEF, 2014
Despite rapid economic growth in South Asia, strong inequalities persist and children pay a heavy price. This publication examines latest trends and data on children in the eight countries of the region. It highlights what has been achieved in the 25 years since the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child--and what remains to be done.
Descriptors: Childrens Rights, Living Standards, Trend Analysis, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedWhite, Loren D.; Reddy, R. S.; Liu, Heping; Williams, Quinton; Shoemake, John – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2013
Since 1975, the Jackson State University Meteorology Program (JSUMP) has played a unique role in the preparation of minorities for careers in the atmospheric sciences. Through external partnerships, incorporation of undergraduate research, summer internships, and involvement in activities of the professional societies, the JSUMP has graduated…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Educational History, Meteorology, Minority Group Students
Hurt, Andrew C.; Callahan, Jamie L. – New Horizons in Adult Education & Human Resource Development, 2013
Paradigms aid organizational researchers in their quest to find the "truth" of a particular event, phenomenon, activity, or topic and by providing them a framework with which to make assumptions about the nature of society and reality. According to Burrell and Morgan (1978), organizational researchers use one of four paradigms:…
Descriptors: Human Resources, Labor Force Development, Popular Culture, Fairy Tales
May, Robyn; Strachan, Glenda; Peetz, David – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2013
Most undergraduate teaching in Australia's universities is now performed by hourly paid staff, and these casual academics form the majority of the academic teaching workforce in our universities. This recent development has significant implications for the careers and working lives of those staff, for other academic staff, and for students,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Universities, College Faculty
Roberts, Ken – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2013
In 2011 England's career guidance profession lost its "own" public service organisation and its former dedicated stream of public funding. The immediate causes lay in decisions by the government of the day, but this article revisits the profession's history to seek explanations for its later vulnerability. It is argued that decisions…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Career Guidance, Educational Change, Educational History
Wang, Dong – Chinese Education and Society, 2013
Human resource development is one of the theories guiding China's development of secondary vocational education. Secondary vocational education has always played a role in human resource training and development from the nation's founding to the present. In Chinese society today, however, there is a clear instrumentalist tendency in secondary…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Secondary Education, Labor Force Development, Talent Development
Sharone, Ofer – Social Forces, 2013
This article provides a new account of American job seekers' individualized understandings of their labor-market difficulties, and more broadly, of how structural conditions shape subjective responses. Unemployed white-collar workers in the U.S. tend to interpret their labor market difficulties as reflecting flaws in themselves, while Israelis…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, White Collar Occupations, Social Support Groups, Interviews
Jacob, Marita; Kleinert, Corinna; Kuhhirt, Michael – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2013
This paper examines trends in school-to-work transitions of young men and women with lower and higher secondary education in West Germany between 1984 and 2005. This period was marked by an increase in young women's educational attainment and a continuous growth of the service sector. We assume that both developments have benefited women more than…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Attainment, Gender Differences, Labor Market
Hippach-Schneider, Ute; Weigel, Tanja; Brown, Alan; Gonon, Philipp – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2013
The German and Swiss economies value skilled work highly and initial vocational education and training (IVET) has been the predominant traditional pathway into such work. However, concerns about a more "knowledge-based society" and the "academic shift in the labour market" are starting to undermine the status associated with…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Bachelors Degrees, Program Descriptions, Comparative Education
Murray, Philomena; Polesel, John – European Journal of Education, 2013
In the area of education and training, different configurations of government with different institutional structures may produce similar or quite different educational and employment outcomes. Other factors come into play in assessing outcomes. For example, young people's transitions from education to work are shaped by a variety of structural…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Foreign Countries, Education Work Relationship, Social Systems
Choy, Sarojni; Billett, Stephen; Kelly, Ann – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2013
Current tertiary education and training provisions are designed mainly to meet the learning needs of those preparing for entry into employment and specific occupations. Yet, changing work, new work requirements, an ageing workforce and the ongoing need for employability across lengthening working lives make it imperative that this educational…
Descriptors: Continuing Education, Vocational Education, Industry, Community Services
Crain, Julie Christi – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This qualitative multiple case study focused on National Board Certified teachers from Generation X who have left the classroom. The study explored aspects of the teaching profession, the National Board Certification process, and Generation X as potential influences for National Board Certified teachers from Generation X to leave the classroom.…
Descriptors: Labor Turnover, Alternative Teacher Certification, Teacher Attitudes, Personal Narratives
