The number of people working in an occupation and their characteristics (age, sex, qualifications, and so on) can change over time. Such changes can be monitored using the Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. However, changes in the definition of occupations when the SOC is revised can raise issues of comparability. This article uses data from the Labour Force Survey to examine ch...

We examined the prospective association between general intelligence (g) at age 10 and liberal and antitraditional social attitudes at age 30 in a large (N= 7,070), representative sample of the British population born in 1970. Statistical analyses identified a general latent trait underlying attitudes that are antiracist, pro-working women, socially liberal, and trusting in the democratic polit...

The UK vocational assessment landscape is changing and research has a key role in helping to identify trends and anticipate emerging issues and challenges. This review collates the messages from recently published research about specific issues that have been found to affect the measurement of vocational learning. It also highlights issues that have been found to influence learner access to voc...

This study examines the roles and functions of businesses, labor-exporting countries’ representative offices in Taiwan, religious organizations, and manpower agencies in promoting occupational safety and health (OSH). It also offers advice to Taiwanese authorities on making policies and improvements regarding the oversight mechanism mandated by the Labor Safety and Health Act, giving them an id...

In all European countries healthcare professions are regulated by law. In Croatia, the legally--regulated professions are: medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, nursing, physiotherapy and midwifery, as well as radiographers, occupational therapists and medical laboratory technicians. Current education of health professionals in Croatia is traditional, inadequate and poorly harmonized with current educ...

Abstract Recent research suggests that people with more occupation-specific qualifications (i.e. link to a smaller set of occupations) experience greater benefits in the labour market. Based on human capital, signalling and credentialing theory, we argue these may vary between native majority population, individuals migration background who hold foreign qualification, domestic qualification. Us...

Introduction: Teaching Qualifications (TQs) have been implemented in University Medical Centers, but their relation to teachers’ motivation for medical teaching is unknown. Because teacher motivation influences important outcomes, it is crucial to study how TQs are related to promoting teacher motivation, by fulfilling the basic needs of feeling autonomous, competent, and related towards medica...

Introduction The Adventus Group is an environmental biotechnology company that provides various remediation biotechnologies including those exclusive to our patent portfolio (see below). We are NOT consultants – we support our clients’ project team(s) by providing unbiased design support and selection of the most cost-effective remedial solution or strategy. As appropriate, our proven products ...

In upcoming years, the United States will experience an unprecedented teacher shortage, meaning that the country will need to supplement its teaching force with approximately two million new teachers. The massive shortage will come as a result of increasing student enrollments, mounting retirement rates of current teachers, and high rates of attrition for beginning teachers. Additionally, the N...