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Harris, Connor – Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, 2020
Conventional wisdom regards a college degree as necessary for a well-paying job and a good life. By focusing on average earnings, this conventional wisdom obscures the enormous variability in outcomes at each education level; in fact, the top half of high school graduates earn in the same range as the bottom half of college graduates. However the…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Salary Wage Differentials, Outcomes of Education, High School Graduates
Nadel-Hawthorne, Sarah; Fuesting, Melissa; Schmidt, Anthony; Bichsel, Jacqueline – College and University Professional Association for Human Resources, 2021
This is the eighth year that CUPA-HR has conducted the CUPA-HR Staff in Higher Education Survey, which collects data on primarily non-exempt staff. The survey collects the following data for all higher ed staff: salary, sex, race/ethnicity, age, and years in position. This marks a special year for data collection and reporting for all CUPA-HR…
Descriptors: School Personnel, Salaries, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Popov, D. S.; Strelnikova, A. V. – Russian Education & Society, 2018
This article studies the problem of the discrepancy between attained education and employment in Russia. Our research relies on the results of an international study of adult competencies (Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies, or PIAAC) that measured the reading literacy and numeracy of working-age people using…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Attainment, Education Work Relationship, Employment Potential
Bergson-Shilcock, Amanda – National Skills Coalition, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown a stark spotlight on need for digital skills among a wide swath of the American workforce. But even before the pandemic, the US labor market reflected a growing demand for workers across industries to have strong digital skills. This report uses data from a rigorously designed international assessment to analyze…
Descriptors: Technological Literacy, Skill Development, Job Skills, Labor Market
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Greg J. Strimel; Liesl Krause; Lisa Bosman; Sydney Serban; Sascha Harrell – Journal for STEM Education Research, 2020
Manufacturing is considered one of the major economic drivers in the United States. However, a challenge for manufacturing competitiveness can be the negative perception of the industry held by children, and society as a whole, which may make them reluctant to pursue manufacturing careers and fulfill the projected workforce demands. Accordingly,…
Descriptors: Manufacturing, Career Choice, Labor Needs, Talent Development
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It-ngam, Suparuthai; Saejew, Budsabong; Kunprayoonsawat, Rapeephan – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2023
The Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC) is a promising project which aims to elevate the living standards of the Thai people. Large numbers of skilled workers with a good command of the English language are urgently needed. The present study aims to examine the English proficiency of Thai employees and explore the expectations of employers in the EEC.…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Tyson, Ruhi – Vocations and Learning, 2015
The focus of this article is on education for vocational excellence (the combination of virtue and good judgment or phronesis/practical wisdom) through an examination of episodes from the auto/biographical study of master craftsman Wolfgang B. Vocational excellence is an issue sometimes discussed with regard to teacher training for schools and…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Handicrafts, Skilled Workers, Apprenticeships
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Bidyuk, Natalya; Oleskova, Halyna – Comparative Professional Pedagogy, 2018
This article deals with the study of current status and prospects for development of nursing professions in Germany. It outlines the classification of "Healthcare Professions" and "Healthcare and Nursing Professions", which are also identified with "Nursing Professions". Besides, such concepts as "nursing",…
Descriptors: Nursing, Foreign Countries, Classification, Employment Qualifications
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Cardenas-Navia, Isabel; Fitzgerald, Brian K. – Industry and Higher Education, 2019
The emergence of a digital economy has changed companies' business and talent model. However, the gap between supply and demand for digital skills and talent poses a serious dilemma for many companies: do they acquire tech start-ups as a talent strategy or reinvent the company as a tech firm, hire new digital talent and reskill current employees?…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Skill Development, Skilled Workers, Business Administration
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Thondhlana, Juliet – Educational Review, 2020
Research on the labour market experiences of highly skilled migrants has revealed the crippling employability challenges they face in the UK workplace resulting from the devaluation of their homeland qualifications and experiences. Studies on highly skilled migrants from Zimbabwe have revealed how migrants have to resort to semi-skilled and…
Descriptors: Job Skills, Labor Market, Immigrants, Employment Qualifications
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Zhang, Fan – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2022
This paper investigates the language fluency problems of skilled immigrants from mainland China to Canada. It capitalises on interview data to explore the relationships between Chinese immigrants' identities, second language practices, and language skills. It reports the informants' difficulty in integrating into their workplaces and their…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Educational Attainment, Asians, Language Fluency
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Wierschem, David; Mediavilla, Francis A. Mendez – Journal of Information Systems Education, 2018
Employers demand for skilled technology workers has never been higher. Opportunities for individuals interested in working in technology to acquire the requisite skills have expanded to meet the increased demand. The expansion of training offerings calls into question the quality of new ventures such as coding academies and the necessity of…
Descriptors: Entry Workers, Skilled Workers, Information Technology, Job Skills
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Gu, Michelle Mingyue; Guo, Xiaoyan; Lin, Yun – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2023
This qualitative study investigates how skilled migrants from South Korea shuttle between linguistic and cultural resources for socialisation and career development. Drawing on the theoretical notions of cultural capital and scalar politics, this study found they strategically re-configured and transformed inter-scalar relations at the…
Descriptors: Socialization, Career Development, Migration, Cultural Pluralism
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Cerna, Lucie; Chou, Meng-Hsuan – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2023
Taking the migration-higher education nexus as an analytical entry point, we address the question: How can we account for different internationalisation outcomes? We focus on three actors involved in the global race to internationalise higher education activities: higher education institutions (HEIs), states, and migrants. We argue that the…
Descriptors: International Education, Higher Education, Outcomes of Education, Strategic Planning
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Chan, Selena – Vocations and Learning, 2014
The term craftsmanship is associated with pre-industrial craft work with inferences to skilled artisanal manufacture of bespoke products. Apprenticeship learning is often perceived to be synonymous with learning craftsmanship. How then is the trait of craftsmanship through attainment of specific artisanal approaches conveyed and learnt through…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Skilled Workers, Professional Identity
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