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Susan McGrath – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2025
England's mainstream upper secondary curriculum is driven by academic, exam-based GCSEs and A levels, with applied learning qualifications an alternative for 'less-academic' 16-18-year-olds. This paper elides two studies of the impact of the BTEC National Diploma on employment and career trajectories, one from the perspective of 16-22-year-olds,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Nontraditional Education, Education Work Relationship, Secondary Education
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Monika Øgård; Stefanie A. Hillen; Eveline Wuttke – Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2025
Many students in vocational education and training (VET) programmes in Norway fail to see the connection with the school-based curriculum content they explore and learn and the tasks they perform during work placements. Consequently, the relevance of various vocational concepts remains invisible when conducting tasks at work, hence student…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Career and Technical Education, Student Employment, Job Placement
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Sandra Smeltzer; Molly McCracken – International Journal of Work-Integrated Learning, 2025
This article offers a critical examination of the co-authors' experience developing and delivering a work-integrated learning (WIL) preparation course for communication and media studies undergraduate students in a large, research-intensive Canadian university. As a WIL pre-requisite, this praxis-oriented course was designed to proactively support…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Work Based Learning, Undergraduate Students, Mental Health
Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education, US Department of Education, 2024
This playbook provides ways in which Community Based Organizations (CBOs) can blur the lines between high school, postsecondary education, and the workforce. CBOs play a significant role to Raise the Bar for student success by developing an "education-to-workforce system" that focuses on Unlocking Career Success.
Descriptors: Community Organizations, High Schools, Postsecondary Education, Labor Force
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Lisette Nieves; Noel S. Anderson; Becca Huntting – Palgrave Macmillan, 2024
This book builds on the success of "Working to Learn" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) by focusing on the future of work and how young people, especially low-income young people and young people of color, are pursuing college and career goals through work-based learning experiences, yet encountering an increasingly racially and…
Descriptors: Work Based Learning, Low Income Students, Minority Group Students, Education Work Relationship
Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education, US Department of Education, 2024
This playbook provides ways in which business and industry can blur the lines between high school, postsecondary education, and the workforce. Business and industry play a significant role to Raise the Bar for student success by developing an "education-to-workforce system" focusing on Unlocking Career Success.
Descriptors: Guides, Work Based Learning, Business, High Schools
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Amani Bell; Amabile Borges Dario; Christiane Klinner; Gillian Nisbet; Merrolee Penman; Daniel Storer; Lynn Monrouxe – Studies in Continuing Education, 2025
Work Integrated Learning is essential for healthcare degrees where students learn to "become" healthcare professionals. As a complex form of learning the quality of student placement experiences are variable, impacting student wellbeing and development of professional competencies. Getting it right, students enter the workforce ready to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Allied Health Occupations Education, Medical Education, Clinical Teaching (Health Professions)