This study aim at examining the effects of TVET on producing productive workforce who are graduates under moderation role private sector. The was conducted following cases large number completing from middle technical and vocational colleges to find they not employable. To uncover this gap, used quantitative research approaches. While design explanatory, sampling technique simple random samplin...

BACKGROUND Field of study may influence the timing of transitions to the labor market, marriage, and parenthood among college graduates. Research to date has yet to study how field of study is associated with the interweaving of these transitions in the USA. OBJECTIVE The current study examines gendered influences of college field of study on transitions to a series of adult roles, including ...

This longitudinal ERP study investigated changes in children's ability to map novel words to novel objects during the dynamic period of vocabulary growth between 20 and 24 months. During this four-month period the children on average tripled their productive vocabulary, an increase which was coupled with changes in the N400 effect to pseudoword-referent associations. Moreover, productive vocabu...

College graduates with a science or business related degree earn up to 25% larger wages than other college graduates. However, individuals do not always pursue careers related to their major, generating within-major gaps in wages that are similar in size to the across major gaps. As an example, science majors who work in jobs related to their field of study earn approximately 30% higher wages t...

OBJECTIVE To explore perceptions of faculty educators regarding the importance of nontechnical competencies in veterinary graduates and the placement of nontechnical competency development in veterinary education. DESIGN Survey. SAMPLE POPULATION All faculty members at 5 North American veterinary medical institutions. PROCEDURES Participants rated the importance of 14 nontechnical compete...

Intercultural skills have been increasingly important to business graduates operating in global economies. This paper evaluates the adaptation of the ExcelL Intercultural Skills Program to an international human resource management course, and examines the effectiveness of integrating case study methods with the skills-based ExcelL program. The primary purpose of the study was to assess the use...

Inclusive business is described as private sector-led business initiatives that aim to profi tably engage low-income populations across productive value chains. Th is paper aims to quantify the impact of businesses implementing inclusive business strategies to determine the value to local communities as well as the tourism business. Th e research reviews the direct impact of the business on com...

Whilst overall productivity growth is stalling, firms at the frontier are still able to capture benefits of newest technologies and business practices. This paper uses linked employer-employee data covering all Belgian over a period almost 20 years investigates differences in human capital between highly productive less firms. We find clear positive correlation share high-skilled STEM workers f...