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van Zanten, Agnès – Journal of Education and Work, 2023
This article analyses the obstacles faced by graduates who benefited from a positive discrimination scheme at an elite French higher education institution. It adopts a Bourdieusian perspective enriched by research on the barriers encountered by socially mobile individuals from disadvantaged and stigmatised categories and studies the experiences of…
Descriptors: Barriers, College Graduates, Higher Education, Disadvantaged
Pesonen, Henri V.; Tuononen, Tarja; Fabri, Marc; Lahdelma, Minja – Journal of Education and Work, 2022
An unprecedented number of autistic people are completing university and they frequently face unemployment after graduation. However, research focusing on the forms of graduate capital and their employability is scarce. The focus of existing research has been on non-autistic, or neurotypical, graduates. The human, social, cultural, identity and…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, College Graduates, Employment Potential, Human Capital
Danner, Magali; Guégnard, Christine; Maguire, Sue – Journal of Education and Work, 2021
This article examines the position of young women in the UK and France who are defined as not in education, employment or training (NEET) and economically inactive (EI). While the challenges facing the young unemployed are well documented, far less is known about economic inactivity and its propensity to impact to a much greater extent on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Out of School Youth, Unemployment, Females
Béduwé, Catherine; Giret, Jean François – Journal of Education and Work, 2021
In this study, we examine how student employment impacts higher educational trajectories in France. Focussing on undergraduates' educational outcomes, we show the consequences of different intensities and levels of recurrence of student employment on perseverance in higher education. We use data from a nationally representative four-year…
Descriptors: Student Employment, Part Time Employment, Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence
Bonnard, Claire – Journal of Education and Work, 2020
The Bologna process has contributed to redefining the concept of employability in higher education policies. In parallel, the professionalisation movement of French higher education has become more pronounced, notably through the development of work placements within the university curricula. In this article, we propose to re-examine the…
Descriptors: Employment Potential, Student Attitudes, Student Motivation, Undergraduate Students
Graf, Lukas; Gardin, Matias – Journal of Education and Work, 2018
Luxembourg exhibits strong transnational traits within its skills regime, defying any neat fit with existing educational typologies. It is characterised by its high-skill economy, cross-cultural characteristics, and central location within the European Union. As such, Luxembourg has developed a hybrid strategy of responding to labour market…
Descriptors: Knowledge Economy, Foreign Countries, Labor Market, Cultural Pluralism
Hailemariam, Abebe – Journal of Education and Work, 2018
This article examines the long-run effect of higher education, measured in average years of tertiary schooling, on the level and growth rate of national per capita income. It uses an improved dataset on educational attainments which not only reduces measurement error but also overcomes data comparability issues and allows us to estimate the…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Higher Education, Educational History, Human Capital
Allais, Stephanie – Journal of Education and Work, 2017
This article presents the major findings of an international study that attempted to investigate the labour market outcomes of qualifications frameworks in six countries--Belize, France, Ireland, Jamaica, Sri Lanka, and Tunisia, as well as the regional framework in the Caribbean. It finds limited evidence of success, but fairly strong support for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Labor Market, Education Work Relationship
Mangset, Marte – Journal of Education and Work, 2017
According to classical elite theory, increased circulation is related to increased integration which is thought to increase elites' power. Based on a comparative analysis of some European countries' elite education systems, recruitment to elite positions and degrees of circulation--with a specific focus on administrative elites--this article…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, Social Theories, Social Change
Israël, Liora; Vanneuville, Rachel – Journal of Education and Work, 2017
The article examines the nature of contemporary legal training in two French elite higher education institutions--one dedicated to prepare for legal careers in the economic field, the other one to train top civil servants--in order to assess the role of legal knowledge in the shaping of French contemporary elites. Based on observations of law…
Descriptors: Selective Admission, Foreign Countries, Legal Education (Professions), Government Employees
Bertron, Caroline; Kolopp, Sarah – Journal of Education and Work, 2017
Drawing on our experiences of interviewing elites, this article suggests that methodological reflexivity yields insights into the construction of symbolic and social hierarchies in contextualised interactions. The paper focuses on "academic culture" as the "locus" through which power relations were experienced in interview…
Descriptors: Culture, Power Structure, Interviews, Research Methodology
Keskiner, Elif – Journal of Education and Work, 2017
This article compares and contrasts the nature of student employment experience in Amsterdam and Strasbourg among descendants of Turkish migrants. The analysis relies on in-depth qualitative interviews revealing the experience of student employment and the impact of working while studying on the educational careers and future labour market…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Employment, Migrants, Qualitative Research
Stevanovic, Biljana – Journal of Education and Work, 2014
Based on "First Job" surveys conducted six months after graduation among graduates from 2000 to 2007 and semi-structured interviews, this paper examines the recruitment and workplace integration of women and men graduates from EPF Ecole d'Ingenieurs. The study's findings show that women engineering graduates from EPF generally have more…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Engineering, Technical Occupations, Recruitment
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Journal of Education and Work, 2003
Contains eight articles describing the implementation and outcomes of National Qualifications Frameworks (NQF) in Scotland, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and France. Topics include NQF as a global phenomenon, neoliberal influences, and epistemological issues. (SK)
Descriptors: Credentials, Employment Qualifications, Foreign Countries, National Programs