We try to keep up to date with any changes, advances and opinions concerning 21st Century Education, generated outside the Effective Education for Employment project. Those reports, media and web pages listed below have been identified by our team, but if you know of others we should be looking at Get involved.

 

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Source Organization: PBS
Location: Middle East
Summary: The Middle East has the highest youth unemployment rate of any regionin the world. Michael Hagar, Presidento fo the Education for...

Job mismatches and their labor market effects among school-leavers in Europe [Open link]

Source Organization: Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market
Date of Publication: 2002
Location: Europe
Summary: In this paper, the researchers investigate the determinants...

Sowing the Seeds of Change: The role of business in education [Open link]

Source Organization: Business Horizon
Date of Publication: 1993
Location: United States
Summary: This document offers readers a brief case study of Nabisco's efforts to create human...

Effective STEM Partnerships: The Role of Business in Education [Open link]

Source Organization: Science Summit
Date of Publication: 2009
Location: United States
Summary: Ray McNulty -- a longtime public educator and former Commissioner of Education in Vermont...

Reference Groups and Choices of Vocational Education: Case of Thailand [Open link]

Source Organization: RMIT University
Date of Publication: 2007
Location: Thailand
Summary: In Thailand, low prestige is attached to vocational education and training. This study...

Policy Paper on Vocational Education and Training [Open link]

Source Organization: European Youth Forum
Date of Publication: April 2010
Location: Europe
Summary: In an evolving society, VET cannot play the same role that it did during the...

Efforts to Improve the Quality of Vocational Education in Secondary Schools: Impact of Federal and State Policies [Open link]

Source Organization: RAND
Date of Publication: 2004
Location: United States
Summary: This study highlights what works and what doesn't work in regards to the U.S.'s Vocational and...

Perceptions of vocational educators and human resource/training and development professionals regarding skill dimensions of school-to-work transition programs [Open link]

Source Organization: Indiana State University
Location: United States
Summary: Too often, there is a serious deficiency in the system by which youth obtain needed skills and move from the...

The Perception of Students towards the Community College Courses that are Offered in Malaysia [Open link]

Source Organization: Asian Social Science
Date of Publication: 2009
Location: Malaysia
Summary: In an effort to boost education and the employability of youth, Malaysia has allocated...

Synthesis of main findings from two case studies carried out in Ghana and Zambia on private technical and vocational education and training (TVET) [Open link]

Source Organization: World Bank
Date of Publication: 2003
Location: Ghana; Zambia
Summary: Creating an effective vocational education program in Zambia and Ghana often encounters a...