Career guidance, school experiences and the university participation of young people from low socio-economic backgrounds

2017 ◽  
Vol 85 ◽  
pp. 11-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wojtek Tomaszewski ◽  
Francisco Perales ◽  
Ning Xiang
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Career Guidance ◽  
School Experiences ◽  
University Participation ◽  
The University

scholarly journals Strategies for attracting talented youth to a technical university

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Е.А. Князькина
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Education System ◽  
Career Guidance ◽  
Vocational Guidance ◽  
Educational Organizations ◽  
Technical University ◽  
The University

Актуальность статьи обусловлена необходимостью формирования педагогических условий с целью привлечения талантливой молодежи в технический вуз. Разносторонний опыт организации профориентационной работы позволяет оказать содействие в выборе направления и замотивировать абитуриента поступить в технический университет. Проведенный анализ литературных источников, посвященных вопросу организации профориентационной работы в вузе, позволил автору определить ряд профориентационных мероприятий как одно из условий успеха работы в техническом университете. В статье проводится анализ полученных результатов в рамках реализации методов привлечения талантливой молодежи в технический вуз. Раскрыта сущность влияния сотрудников профориентационной работы на формирование мотивации талантливой молодежи. Показана важность активизации применения разносторонних методов профориентации, направленной на развитие мотивации талантливой молодежи с целью поступления в технический университет. Статья предназначена для работников системы образования, руководителей образовательных организаций, исследователей. The relevance of the article is due to the need to form pedagogical conditions in order to attract talented young people to a technical university. The versatile experience of organizing vocational guidance work allows you to assist in choosing a direction and motivate an applicant to enter a technical university. The conducted analysis of literature sources devoted to the organization of vocational guidance work at the university allowed the author to define a number of career guidance activities as one of the conditions for the success of work at a technical university. The article analyzes the results obtained in the framework of the implementation of methods for attracting talented youth to a technical university. The essence of the influence of employees of vocational guidance work on the formation of motivation of talented youth is revealed. The article shows the importance of enhancing the use of versatile methods of career guidance aimed at developing the motivation of talented youth in order to enter a technical university. The article is intended for employees of the education system, heads of educational organizations, researchers.

Students’ Attitudes Towards Starting a Business, on the Example of Students at the University of Information Technology and Management in Rzeszów (Poland)

e-Finanse ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 90-103
Author(s):  
Karolina Palimąka ◽  
Jacek Rodzinka
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Young People ◽  
Family Member ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
The Cross ◽  
Students Attitudes ◽  
The University ◽  
Starting A Business

AbstractEntrepreneurship understood as a manifestation of economic activity is an issue widely discussed in literature, especially in the field of economics. Today, a large part of society is involved in establishing and running a business, hence the shaping of entrepreneurial behaviors gains importance among all age groups, especially young people. The main objective of the conducted research was to examine the interest in starting their own business by students and to verify whether the direction of their studies or role in the group affects the students’ willingness to start a business and whether a family member runs a business influences this interest and moreover, whether capital and the idea are the two main criteria conditioning the decision.. The conclusions were based on a study, i.e. (mainly) the cross-analysis of data collected as part of a survey conducted among students of the University of Information Technology and Management in Rzeszów.

scholarly journals How does career guidance at schools encounter migrant young people? Interactional practices that hinder socially just guidance

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanna Vehviläinen ◽  
Anne-Mari Souto
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Young People ◽  
Career Guidance ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
School Career ◽  
Interaction Research

AbstractThe aim of this article is to show how interaction research can contribute to the understanding and praxis of socially just guidance. The article is theoretical, but it makes use of our previous empirical studies. We combine the ethnographic study of school and racism, and interactional research on guidance. We define guidance for social justice, explaining how this translates to the level of interactional practices. We show two empirical examples of interactional phenomena hindering socially just praxis. We lastly discuss our practical conclusions on how to help school career counsellors change their interactional practices.

scholarly journals THE PROBLEMS OF YOUTH EMPLOYMENT AND WAYS TO SOLVE THEM: DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN EXPERIENCE

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (87) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ksenia Bondarevskaya ◽  
◽  
Mariia Kalinina ◽  
Mariia Septa ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Young People ◽  
Work Experience ◽  
Career Guidance ◽  
Youth Employment ◽  
Large Set ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Decent Work ◽  
Industrial Enterprises ◽  
State Education

The article considers the main trends of youth employment in the labor market in modern realities. As a result of the study, a statistic alanalysis of economic and social indicators for young people in Ukraine and the relationship with world indicators was conducted. The main recommendations for an effective national policy on this issue were also made. The most important factors influencing youth employment are the state, education and labor market conditions. It is the balance of these factors that will solve the problem of youth employment. Among the main causes of youth unemployment are the following: the growth in the total number of unemployed; the bankruptcy of a significant part of public and private enterprises; the focus of industrial enterprises on self-preservation and survival, rather than the development and expansion of production; the lack of young people with sufficient experience, in connection with which they are finally hired in the presence of vacancies, and the first to reduce when production is reduced; insufficient development of career guidance work with young people in the senior classes of the school; the increase in the structure of labor supply of the share of persons who do not have professions (foreign citizens) and decrease in the prestige of working professions; weak interest of employers in advanced training and retraining of working professionals. The ways of effectively solving this issue are: reforming the education system, encouraging young people to find employment at the educational stage, and providing benefits to enterprises that employ young people. Attention should also be paid to student internships. The other possible way to overcome the problem is studying the experience of other countries. The problem of youth employment is becoming a challenge for the economies of many countries. It is common not only in Eastern Europe, but also in many developing countries. Young people are a vulnerable category of the workforce due to a large set of factors, including: incorrectly chosen specialty, lack of work experience, inflated demands of young people for the future workplace. If you do not pay enough attention to this problem, it can cause many negative consequences. It should be noted that the UN Sustainable Development Goals include the promotion of progressive, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all, including young people.

scholarly journals STUDENTS’ MENTAL HEALTH RISKS REGARDING SUSCEPTIBILITY TO PEER PRESSURE

2021 ◽  
pp. 60-67
Author(s):  
Jasna Kudek Mirošević ◽  
Mirjana Radetić-Paić ◽  
Ivan Prskalo
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Young People ◽  
Health Behaviour ◽  
Peer Group ◽  
Adult Population ◽  
Peer Pressure ◽  
Poor Mental Health ◽  
Positive Health ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
The University

Given that adolescents and young people spend most of their time in the educational system, advancements in neurodevelopmental research emphasize the important and complex role of peers’ influence on adolescents’ behaviour, suggesting that supportive programmes led by peers have a strong potential benefit (King, & Fazel, 2019). In many cases peers are the most important source of social support, and are therefore an important target group to investigate the factors of risk, signs of poor mental health and ways to assess their health behaviour and awareness of the care which should be taken regarding their mental health, as well as the resources and prevention models. The wish is to study whether there are differences regarding the mental behaviour in certain characteristics of susceptibility to peer pressure as a risk for the mental health of students of the Faculty of Educational Sciences of the Juraj Dobrila University of Pula and students of the Faculty of Teacher Education of the University of Zagreb, Division of Petrinja (N=440). The set hypothesis states that there is a statistically significant difference among students of the faculty in Pula and those in Petrinja in their assessment of certain features of peer pressure susceptibility as a possible risk for mental health. The results obtained at the x2-test showed a statistically significant difference between certain peer pressure features among students regarding their study environment linked to hanging out with peers who consume drugs and being tempted to try them, getting involved in risky behaviours if their peers ask them to, and betting or gambling because their friends also do that. The results indicate that in smaller communities social control and conformity in the students’ behaviour is more present due to their wish to fit in a peer group as well as possible, suggesting the need for strengthening the positive health behaviour of young people during their whole education in order to secure a healthy and productive adult population.

scholarly journals ¿Qué opinan los universitarios sobre el uso académico de las redes sociales?

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Abelairas-Etxebarria ◽  
Jon Mentxaka Arana
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Young People ◽  
Basque Country ◽  
Redes Sociales ◽  
The University ◽  
Pais Vasco

Hoy en día, las redes sociales son utilizadas en cualquier momento y en cualquier lugar. Entre los jóvenes, en particular, han supuesto una revolución a la hora de relacionarse. Sin embargo, dichas redes sociales tienen escasa presencia en el aula universitaria para su uso académico. Este trabajo pretende analizar el uso de las redes sociales de los estudiantes de la Facultad de Economía y Empresa de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea. Además, se analiza la opinión de los alumnos y alumnas sobre la posibilidad de introducir las redes sociales en el aula con fines académicos. Con estos objetivos, se ha realizado una encuesta a una muestra de los estudiantes de dicha facultad donde, como principal resultado, se extrae que la gran mayoría de los estudiantes usan habitualmente las redes sociales en el ámbito personal y que están dispuestos a introducir estas redes sociales como herramienta en el aula universitaria. At the present time, social networks are used anytime and anywhere. Among young people, in particular, they have been a revolution when it comes to socializing. However, these social networks have little presence in the university classroom for an academic use. This paper aims to analyze the use of social networks of students of the Faculty of Economics and Business of the University of the Basque Country / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea. In addition, it analyzes the opinion of the students about the possibility of introducing social networks in the classroom for academic purposes. With these objectives a survey has been carried out on a sample of the students of said faculty where, as the main result, it is extracted that the vast majority of students routinely use social networks in the personal sphere and that they are willing to introduce these social networks as a tool in the university classroom.

scholarly journals Careers Guidance and Transitions to Further Education in Wales

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Katy Huxley ◽  
Rhys Davies ◽  
Suhaer Yunus
Keyword(s):  
Multivariate Analysis ◽  
Young People ◽  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Career Guidance ◽  
Compulsory Education ◽  
Further Education ◽  
Low Levels ◽  
Academic Year ◽  
Combining Information

There is a general agreement that receiving appropriate and timely careers guidance enhances the likelihood of an individual’s participation in post-compulsory education. However, little is understood about how careers guidance influences the choices of learners. This paper explores the educational journey of learners’ who enrol within the Further Education sector in Wales, analysing whether the receipt of careers guidance is in anyway associated with these outcomes. This study utilises the linked database of school and pupil records, combining information from the Welsh National Pupil Database (NPD) with individual learner records from the Lifelong Learning Wales Record (LLWR) for young people who are registered at post-compulsory education providers, combined with anonymised client information held by Careers Wales. Data for two cohorts of Year 11 pupils (2012/13 and 2013/14) who subsequently enrolled in courses within the FE sector during the following academic year is analysed. Multivariate analysis reveals that, as expected, there is a strong link between GCSE attainment and learning aims at FE. However, the analysis also suggests that receipt of careers guidance may encourage learners to make choices at FE that are more commensurate with their abilities. Those with higher levels of attainment are also more likely to enrol on higher level learning programmes if they have also been in receipt of careers guidance. Likewise, those with low levels of attainment at GCSE are more likely to enrol on learning programmes with lower qualification aims if they have been in receipt of careers guidance. Receiving careers guidance through interviews increased the likelihood of registering on WBL programmes. Furthermore, learners on WBL programmes who have received careers guidance are less likely to withdraw from their courses early. The study offers important insights as to the role of career guidance in supporting young people in their transitions to post-compulsory education.

scholarly journals Priorities of a Regional University Educational Activities Modernization

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (10) ◽  
pp. 108-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. A. Olkhovaya ◽  
S. V. Pankova
Keyword(s):  
Career Guidance ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
University Education ◽  
University Graduates ◽  
State University ◽  
Management Skills ◽  
Regional University ◽  
Education Centre ◽  
The University

The article is focused on the problem of educational programs modernization on the basis of principles of project-oriented training and students’ involvement in solving scientific-research and industrial-technological tasks relevant for the region. Special attention is paid to the multilevel career guidance work at Oreburg State University (special projects such as pre-university education centre “Applicant”, University Computer School, University physics and maths school, “University Saturdays”). The task of creating a complex of educational and intellectual products that ensure high competitiveness of university graduates is considered. For this purpose, the University reali- zes two educational projects: “School of leadership” and “Going to study at OSU”. These projects implement project-oriented training, involve employers in educational process. As a result, students present their own business projects with financial support. Special course of technological entrepreneurship is aimed at development of business thinking, business planning, management skills, key competences to start a business or to conduct innovation projects at companies. Modernization of educational practices gives considerable topical relevance to the question of young teachers and researchers retention at the University, their integration in academic community.

Creativity and Entrepreneurial Intention in Young People

2011 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 189-199 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonidas A. Zampetakis ◽  
Manto Gotsi ◽  
Constantine Andriopoulos ◽  
Vassilis Moustakis
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Family Support ◽  
Business School ◽  
Entrepreneurial Intention ◽  
Entrepreneurial Intentions ◽  
School Students ◽  
The University

The authors examine the link between creativity and entrepreneurial intention in young people and the roles that family and education may play in encouraging this link. The results from a survey of 180 undergraduate business school students show that the more creative young people consider themselves to be, the higher are their entrepreneurial intentions. Students' creativity also fully mediates the effect of family support for creativity on their entrepreneurial intention. Support for creativity in the university is found to have no effect on their creativity or on their entrepreneurial intention. Entrepreneurship course attendance moderates the effect of individual creativity on entrepreneurial intention.

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