Exploiting variation in welfare reform across states and over time and using relevant comparison groups, this study estimates the effects of welfare reform on an important source of human capital acquisition among women at risk for relying on welfare: vocational education and training. The results suggest that welfare reform reduced enrollment in full-time vocational education and had no signif...

This book gives an account of studies made by the New Zealand Council for Educational Research. It describes the organization of education in New Zealand and the way this organization works out in practice and thus shows the general setting into which all educational and vocational guidance in the country must be fitted. After a short account of the types of school available and numbers to be f...

measures aimed at bringing the hospital medical staffing structure into balance over the next 10 earss' This initiative has been endorsed by the Central Committee for Hospital Medical Services and the Hospital Junior StaffCommittee. If the proposals are agreed implementation will start on 1 January 1987 and will result in major changes to the junior hospital doctors' career structure. This stud...

the factory, separated almost entirely from the life of the child, whose education, on the other hand, is supervised and controlled by an authority who is not likely to be familiar with any of the activities in which the boy will eventually engage. Thus there is no longer in this modern community that correlation between the boy's early and later life which prevailed in more primitive groups. T...

Article history: Received 18 September 2014 Available online 22 October 2014 This study investigated the influence of social comparison on career choice certainty and its potential mechanisms: regret as a mediator and vocational identity as a moderator. Before the formal experiment, 30 pairs of vocational values representing typical conflicts in career decisionmaking for Chinese university stud...

This paper considers the next steps for the DigCurV project in working towards a sustainable future for vocational education and training in Digital Curation Keywords-component; DigCurV; Digital Curator Vocational Education; Europe

BACKGROUND An international six-centre randomised controlled trial comparing individual placement and support (IPS) with usual vocational rehabilitation for people with serious mental illness found IPS to be more effective for all vocational outcomes. AIMS To determine which patients with severe mental illness do well in vocational services and which process and service factors are associated...

in order to assess the relationship between obesity with food habit and body image, this case control study was conducted among 85 urban primary school children male and female aged 10-12 years old, attending anuban school in nakhon pathom province, in thailand. two different questionnaires were used for data collection for caregivers and students. the standard used for definition of overweight...

rehabilitation is the ongoing management of injuries and disabilities after an accident. it will help people to maximize the individuals` recovery through the relearning of skills or teaching of strategies to compensate for changed abilities. self-esteem may be one major factor related to the manner in which people with spinal cord injury (sci) respond to rehabilitation. following a short discu...

PURPOSE Under the national framework law in Sweden, all eligible people should have equal chances of receiving vocational rehabilitation. We aimed to review the evidence on (1) whether access to vocational rehabilitation is equitable in practice and (2) whether the outcomes vary for different groups in the population. METHOD Systematic review of studies in Sweden that reported diagnostic or s...