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Direct linkChan, Sheng-Ju; Lin, Jing-Wen – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2016
To address the changing needs of the labour market better, higher education institutions have increasingly aimed to enhance their teaching quality and the learning experiences of their students. Therefore, a key concept of the missions of contemporary educational institutions is to improve students' employability after graduation. Although…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Employment Potential, Labor Market, Labor Force Development
Download full textNorton, Kent; Rafferty, Mike – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2010
Work practices in the meat-processing industry have changed in recent years. The industry has moved away from workers dressing a whole carcass towards a chain-based system, with each worker performing a single task along a moving production line. The nature of the meat-processing workforce has also changed. It is no longer dominated by seasonal…
Descriptors: Agribusiness, Food Processing Occupations, On the Job Training, Supervision
Miles, Christopher – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2010
This article describes the results of a six-month ethnographic case study of a French immigrant of Senegalese descent and how he recreates the culture of an American company's speech community. Data were collected through interviews, field notes, and shadowing the participant at his place of employment. The transcribed interviews and field notes…
Descriptors: Social Change, Labor Force Development, Ethnography, Case Studies
Training in the Food and Beverages Sector in Ireland. Report for the FORCE Programme. First Edition.
Hunt, Deirdre; And Others – 1994
The food and beverage industry is of overwhelming strategic importance to the Irish economy. It is also one of the fastest changing sectors. Recent trends in this largely indigenous industry in recent years include the following: globalization, large and accelerating capital outlay, company consolidation, added value product, enhanced quality…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Bakery Industry, Case Studies, Continuing Education
Burns, Jim A.; King, Richard – 1994
An international team of researchers studied the following aspects of training in the United Kingdom's food and beverage sector: structure and characteristics, business and social context, training and recruitment, and future training requirements. Data were collected from an analysis of social and labor/employment statistics, literature review,…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Corporate Education, Education Work Relationship, Educational Improvement
Sanguinetti, Jill – 2000
The effects of the inclusion of literacy and numeracy competencies within Australia's food processing industry training package were examined in two case studies of training at two food processing facilities in Victoria. The first case study involved a large pasta factory that had approximately 270 employees and a contract with a registered…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Access to Education, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy
