College education has been shown to improve the labor market success of young people. Using data from the 1997 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, I estimate a wage model and an unemployment model where respondents are grouped according to their degree attainment and college attendance. I find that associate degrees recipients get paid by 21-23 percent more than high school graduates while a...

Ensuring an adequate and safe food supply for a rapidly expanding world population, succeeding in a global economy, and maintaining our planet’s natural resources and biodiversity are some of the challenges that are being met by graduates from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Our students apply knowledge to solve problems as scientists, business leaders, engineers, educators, physi...

BACKGROUND The UK medical graduates of 2008 and 2009 were among the first to experience a fully implemented, new, UK training programme, called the Foundation Training Programme, for junior doctors. We report doctors' views of the first Foundation year, based on comments made as part of a questionnaire survey covering career choices, plans, and experiences. METHODS Postal and email based ques...

Background In Italy, there is no framework of procedural skills that all medical students should be able to perform autonomously at graduation. The study aims at identifying (1) a set of essential procedural skills and (2) which abilities could be potentially taught with simulation. Desirability score was calculated for each procedure to determine the most effective manner to proceed with simul...

This manuscript describes a collaborative, seamless program between a community college and a university college of nursing designed to increase the number of nurses prepared with a baccalaureate degree. The three-year Integrated Nursing Pathway provides community college students with a non-nursing associate degree, early introduction to nursing, and seamless progression through BSN education....

Entrepreneurship is recognized as a beacon of business start-ups. It drives individuals to realize their synergy, visualize and strategize / focus towards entrepreneurial path. vibrant process aimed at creating economic returns through innovations. This study sought determine the influence internship exposure on engagement between food beverage diploma graduates from tertiary institutions. The ...

INTRODUCTION This paper investigates the use of computer mediated communication (CMC) in colleges of further and higher education in the UK. Analysis is carried out by institutional type as preliminary investigation shows there are considerable differences between universities and colleges in terms of email usage. A total of 30 institutions replied to the survey: 14 Universities and 16 Colleges...

OBJECTIVES Investigate the work-life balance of doctors in training in the UK from the perspectives of trainers and trainees. DESIGN Qualitative semistructured focus groups and interviews with trainees and trainers. SETTING Postgraduate medical training in London, Yorkshire and Humber, Kent, Surrey and Sussex, and Wales during the junior doctor contract dispute at the end of 2015. Part of a...