Organizations that deal with humanitarian assistance, disaster response and military activities are often exposed to dynamic environments where chaos rules. Under these circumstances, standard operating procedures may not be always be applicable, forcing the controllers to resort to opportunistic, or even scrambled, control. The lack of tactical or strategic control forces the teams to rely on ...

National efforts to transform undergraduate biology education call for research experiences to be an integral component of learning for all students. Course-based undergraduate research experiences, or CUREs, have been championed for engaging students in research at a scale that is not possible through apprenticeships in faculty research laboratories. Yet there are few if any studies that exami...

Research apprenticeships offer opportunities for deep understanding of scientific practice, transparency about research careers, and possible transformational effects on precollege youth. We examined two consecutive field-based environmental biology apprenticeship programs designed to deliver realistic career exploration and connections to research scientists. The Shaw Institute for Field Train...

The Social Work Degree Apprenticeship is the latest addition to an ever-growing proliferation of routes through professional qualification. Mainly recruiting current social care employees, apprenticeships are broadly structured around a ‘day release’ model where work-based learning highly valued and academic content compressed but supported variety mechanisms in workplace university. This artic...

This paper responds to the call for more research on ‘missing middle’ by reporting findings of a small-scale qualitative longitudinal study in North England exploring labour market transitions young people completing compulsory schooling with mid-level qualifications and seeking employment. It found that participants desired training which aligned their skills, interests future work intentions....

Literature on education and training highlights two factors that impinge the distribution of early leaving (ELET) exclusion from employment (NEET) across EU regions. One these lies in institutions regulate transition to at national level. Over time, have constituted a Universalistic regime Scandinavia, an Employment-Centred Central Europe, Liberal Regime UK Ireland, Sub-Protective Southern West...

Abstract Strengthening of the professionalism public health (PH) specialists may be response to changes in care systems. The aim study was explore potential and restrictions associated with job search by PH graduates, as well examine their opinions on position labor market. survey conducted using questionnaire (CAWI) 107 respondents from two medical universities 2019. average age 24.5. 5.61% 17...

The ultimate goal of industrialized, developed economies is to increase economic growth and to have a highly-skilled, flexible and responsive workforce in order to remain competitive in an increasingly global economic context. Therefore, there is increasing focus on exploring the various options for optimizing worker training. Apprenticeships, traineeships and internships are some examples of t...

As the use of child soldiers continues to proliferate throughout the world, effective psychosocial interventions must be developed and evaluated. Our research shows that former child soldiers who are provided rehabilitative services and accepted back into their families and communities are able to become productive, responsible and caring adults. In 1988, 39 captured or escaped child soldiers w...