European Commission. Directorate-General for Education and Culture’s scientific contributions

... Skills mismatch refers to a situation of imbalance in which the skills and education of workers are not adequate for labor market needs. In another word, it means that the skills do not correspond to demands of jobs in the current economy in either quantitative or qualitative [11,12]. Skill mismatch can be used to describe vertical mismatch (usually measured in terms of over-education, under-education, over-skilling, under-skilling), skill gaps, skill shortages (usually measured in terms of unfilled and hard-to-fill vacancies), field of study (horizontal) mismatch and skill obsolescence [13]. ...

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Analysis Of Skill Demand In Thai Labor Market From Online Jobs Recruitments Websites

... Major transformations in European higher education systems were believed to be necessary for Europe to become a knowledge economy by 2010. The tenets of the Bologna Declaration ( European Commission, 2010) are set to facilitate greater academic mobility of faculty and students, so that innovation and creation of new knowledge could proceed through these networks. Even though many European academics supported the Bologna process as an opportunity to modernize higher education, to attract talent from around the world, and to strengthen cultural traditions, a growing number of scholars started questioning it as a form of academic capitalism and a process of commodification of higher education. ...

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Universal principles transform national priorities: Bologna Process and Russian teacher education

... Certain international studies also used categorical degrees of school autonomy (e.g. Eurydice, 2007;OECD, 2005). ...

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The relationships between school autonomy gap, principal leadership, teachers job satisfaction and organizational commitment

... Our data were generated from student samples at one or two universities per country and may not be representative of all students of the respective countries. A comparison with representative data on students' age and gender distribution [45] confirms that Danish and German students are on average older than students from the other countries that are included in this analysis, and that there are more female than male students. Nevertheless, any distortion of the gender distribution is not likely to affect our results as the analysis was stratified by gender. ...

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Relationship between perceived body weight and body mass index based on self- reported height and weight among university students: A cross-sectional study in seven European countries

... These are people from a variety of countries with wide experience of teacher education and an understanding that the ability of teachers to be mobile and work across the EU countries demands a similarity of achievement levels and some way of comparing training standards. In 2006 Eurydice published a report on Quality assurance in teacher education in Europe which described how individual countries were coping with ensuring high quality in their teacher education (Eurydice, 2006) [11]. Hazelkorn (2013) [12] points to the international pressures such as ageing societies, the goal of knowledge transfer and the need to provide value for money, as funding decreases, resulting in pressure on HE institutions to provide high quality programmes with fewer resources. ...

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Assuring the Quality of Teacher Education Systems and Its Link to Improvement in Learning Cultures: The Role of the International Reviewer

... The first one was the OECD report issued in 2004 [1,5] and titled " Teachers Matter: Attracting, Developing and Retaining Effective Teachers " . EURYDICE published the second report in 2004 under the title " The Teaching Profession in Europe " [6]. In Spain, the abandonment of the teaching profession for Secondary Education became also visible at the policy level. ...

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The Training Needs of Future Secondary Education Teachers in Spain

... The first was devoted to a comparison of models of initial education and the transitional measures introduced to facilitate access to the profession (European Commission, 2002a). The issue of supply and demand was examined in the second report (European Commission, 2002b), while the third dealt with teachers' working conditions and pay (European Commission, 2003). The fourth and last report focused on keeping teaching attractive for the 21st century (European Commission, 2004). ...

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D2.2 Conceptual Framework ADDENDUM 4 of 4: Literature Review of Comparative Education CREATIVE LITTLE SCIENTISTS: Enabling Creativity through Science and Mathematics in Preschool and First Years of Primary Education

... 4. See Department for Education and Skills (2007) for the most recent stock taking report. Another account of the present state is provided by EU- RYDICE (European Commission, 2007 ), the education network of the European Union. 5. http://www.eua.be/index.php 6. http://www.eurashe.eu/RunScript.asp?p=ASP\Pg0.asp 7. http://www.esib.org/ ...

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“The Bologna Process” A European Response to Global Competition in Higher Education

... • Development of key competencies, i.e. those that are essential in order to participate effectively within society. (Eurydice, 2002) Bearing this in mind, three key questions arise: 1. Can science and technology education be developed with a view to playing an active role in leading to true sustainable development? 2. What effects are educational institutions and NGOs expected to have during the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development so as to play a positive role in promoting more appropriate science and technology education (especially for sustainable development)? ...

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Science Education International Meeting Challenges to Sustainable Development through Science and Technology Education

... Managerialism thus becomes a dominant trend and evaluation plays a central role in sustaining organizational effectiveness (Clarke and Ozga, 2011). Powerful supranational institutions have insisted on the need for such programmes (EURYDICE, 2004;OECD, 2009), while recognizing the diversity of national models. For instance, the emerging Portuguese system took as a major point of reference, and is very similar to, the British OFSTED inspections, implemented since 1993. ...

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The Portuguese schools’ evaluation programme: A sociological approach to the participation of social actors