Orientador: Soely Aparecida Jorge Polydoro / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-20T12:46:56Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Marinho_RitadeCassiadeAlmeida_M.pdf: 3345417 bytes, checksum: 342de73609b1fc364a714a6d65c36718 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011 / Resumo: As mudanças ocorridas na sociedade refletiram na expansão do ensino superior. Esta expansão, aliada às políticas governamentais para a educação brasileira, tem provocado diferentes efeitos nos campos político e pedagógico da formação dos estudantes, especialmente da formação docente. Constata-se uma menor procura por cursos de Licenciaturas, o que também sofre influência da baixa valorização da carreira e condições de trabalho. Uma vez que há diversificação no público que acede ao ensino superior, torna-se relevante o maior conhecimento a respeito da comunidade discente e seu percurso acadêmico. Para esta pesquisa foi selecionada uma modalidade específica de estudante de uma universidade pública situada no interior do estado de São Paulo: o aluno reingressante. São identificados como reingressantes, os estudantes que retornam à instituição para realizar outra habilitação ou ênfase do curso concluído. Diante destas especificações, o presente estudo teve por objetivo compreender o reingresso ao ensino superior, por meio da análise do perfil e da trajetória acadêmica de estudantes reingressantes em um mesmo curso do ensino superior, que tiveram a Licenciatura em seu percurso acadêmico no período compreendido de 2004 a 2009. Configura-se em uma pesquisa do tipo descritiva, de natureza documental e longitudinal. Os dados permitiram verificar a presença 1537 estudantes reingressantes que atendiam aos atributos estabelecidos pelo estudo, das quatro áreas do conhecimento (Ciências Exatas, Tecnológicas e da Terra; Ciências Biológicas e Profissões da Saúde; Ciências Humanas e Artes), dos quais realizaram até sete movimentos em sua trajetória acadêmica e que tiveram como curso de entrada preferencialmente o Bacharelado. Os estudantes das áreas de Ciências Exatas, Tecnológicas e da Terra e Ciências Biológicas e Profissões da Saúde foram os que mais realizaram movimentos em sua trajetória acadêmica. Os da área de Artes foram os que realizaram menos movimentos. Ao todo, os estudantes reingressantes passaram por 37 modalidades de Bacharelado, 10 de Licenciatura e uma de Tecnologia. Ao longo da trajetória acadêmica dos alunos foi percebida uma diminuição do número de alunos e também um decrescente índice de conclusão de curso. Os movimentos apresentaram tanto uma complementação da formação em novas carreiras, como o compromisso com a modalidade ao retornar à mesma após evasão anterior. O vínculo com a instituição mostrou-se presente ao se identificar a presença de Disciplinas Isoladas inseridas em sua trajetória. Foram identificadas variações na distância temporal entre a conclusão da modalidade anterior e o ingresso na modalidade posterior, na inclusão de outros cursos, no número de movimentos e direções apresentadas na trajetória e na condição acadêmica dos alunos dos diferentes cursos. Quanto à escolha pela Licenciatura, houve uma reduzida procura inicial, bem como baixo índice de conclusão. Os resultados obtidos indicam novas situações a serem investigadas, a fim de se buscar a percepção do reingressante sobre as variáveis motivacionais e de contexto que interferem neste percurso, destacando o papel do reingresso e a escolha da Licenciatura / Abstract: The changes occurred in the society resulted in the expansion of higher education. This expansion, combined with government policies for the Brazilian education has led to different effects in the political and pedagogical training of students, especially teacher education. There is a lower demand for undergraduate courses, which also is influenced by the low valuation of his career and working conditions. Since there is diversification in the public that access to higher education, becomes the most relevant knowledge about the student community and its academic career. For this research we selected a specific type of student of a public university located in the state of Sao Paulo: the student re-entry. Are identified like re-entry students, who return to the institution to hold another qualification or emphasis of the course completed. Given these specifications, this study had like a main objective, to understand the re-entry to higher education, using for this, the analysis of the profile and the academic career of re-entry students in one course of higher education, who had a degree in his academic career in the period of 2004 to 2009. Set in a search of the descriptive type of nature documentary and longitudinally. The data helped confirm the presence of 1537 re-entry students who meet the attributes set by the study, the four areas of knowledge (Exact Sciences, Technology and of the Earth: Biological Science and health professions; Human Science and Arts), which made up seven movements in their academic progress and which were input preferably Bachelor. The students of the Exact Sciences like Technology and Earth; Biological Scienc and Health Professions were mostly performed movements in their academic life. The Arts area were those who had less movement. In all, the re-entry students passed for 37 kinds of Bachelors Degree, 10 of graduation and 1 of Technology. During the academic life of the students, was noted a decrease of the number of students and a decreasing quantity in the completion of course. The movements show a completion of training in new careers, like an engagement with the course, when it returned to study after last evasion. The link with the institution was proven at identify the presence of Isolated Disciplines inserted in the trajectory. It was identified different gaps between the completion of the previous mode and the entering the posterior mode, in the including of other courses, in the number of movements and directions showed in the trajectory and in the academic condition of the students in the different courses. As the choice for graduate, there was an initial decrease found, like a lower quantity of completion. The results indicate new situations that need to be observed, to the future to have a perception of re-entry about the motivational variables and of context that interfere in this trajectory, with emphasis in the re-entry and the choice of the Graduate / Mestrado / Psicologia Educacional / Mestre em Educação

M.Cur. (Nursing Education) / The competence of the newly qualified comprehensive diploma nurses has been a cause for concern to professional nurses in Swaziland. Once the diploma graduate nurses are deployed in the clinical health facilities, they tend not to display the expected competence when providing care to patients. This compromises the quality of care given to patients. The purpose of the study is to explore and describe the expectations of professional nurses regarding the competence of the newly qualified comprehensive diploma nurses in Swaziland rural clinical health facilities, in order to formulate strategies to improve their competence and subsequently improve nursing practice in general. A contextual, qualitative, exploratory, and descriptive research design was employed to explore the expectations of professional nurses regarding the competence of the newly qualified comprehensive diploma nurses in the Swaziland rural clinical facilities, thereby formulating strategies to improve practice. A purposive sampling method was used to select professional nurses in the rural clinical facilities of Swaziland who meet the inclusion criteria. The data was collected through focus group interviews. The focus group interviews were directed by the research questions. Data was analysed using the open coding qualitative method of data analysis as described by Tesch (in Creswell, 2007: 154 – 156). This method of data analysis was applied to reduce data from interview transcriptions into themes and categories. Trustworthiness was ensured by using the four criteria described by Lincoln and Guba’s model (1985), namely: credibility; transferability; dependability; and confirmability. Ethical considerations were in accordance with the Faculty of Health Science Committee for Academic Ethics (2005). The researcher obtained approval to conduct the study from the University Higher Degree and Ethics Committee, Scientific and Ethics Committee in Swaziland.

Debates on flexible employment and labour persist in most Western market economies, while being largely absent regarding Saudi Arabia. Increasing unemployment among qualified Saudi citizens remains a major concern, particularly for females, despite a government policy of Saudisation. Notwithstanding incentives for prioritising Saudi citizens, foreign nationals dominate private sector employment. Few empirical studies consider the factors impacting employment of educated Saudi women: further, there are hardly any robust frameworks which offer policy makers, employers, and those championing the employment of this group a clear set of plausible guidelines bearing in mind the socioeconomic context of Saudi Arabia. The research aims, first and foremost, to examine how far "labour flexibility" in Saudi Arabia offers solutions to unemployment among educated Saudi females, exploring interalia the main institutions and regulatory framework of the Saudi labour market, and the effectiveness of these in managing the relationship between employers and employees. It also examines the major labour market and employment policy concerns of government, employers and employees, considering flexible employment forms in Saudi Arabia, and in what context employers and employees do or would consider flexible employment. Following on from this, the second aim is to develop a conceptual framework on key factors impacting the participation of educated Saudi females in the Saudi labour market. The framework that emerges from these analyses also provides some guidance for graduate women who seek labour market entry and participation. iii The study employed quantitative and qualitative methodologies, with targeted participants, returning 1347 usable questionnaires (41% response) augmented by 28 semi-structured interviews. The quantitative data underwent statistical examination by performing descriptive and inferential analysis on the SPSS software, and qualitative data were analysed using summative content analysis. A conceptual framework was developed and validated through interviews with ten representatives of the interviewed sample population, who held senior positions. To improve understanding of key influencing factors for educated women’s participation in the Saudi labour market for key stakeholders. The six factors identified were personal, socio-cultural, educational, legal/political, organisational and economic. The study identifies a relationship between increased flexible work patterns and increased employment of educated Saudi females and suggests a relationship between the challenges Saudi females face within employment practices and numbers employed in the labour market. Similarly, a relationship exists between educational level and employment chances for Saudi women. Recommendations are proffered to the Saudi Government, Ministry of Labour, Ministry of Education, industrial sector, organisations, researchers and academia.

This thesis sets out to analyse perceptions of the legacy value of an undergraduate degree from graduates at different distances since graduation. This perspective has not been systematically sought within higher education today. Submission of the work comes as attention in England is focused on ‘teaching excellence’ and Government expectations that a higher education degree should deliver lasting value to graduates and taxpayers alike. Thus the work has importance in providing new research identifying that the graduate voice supports more realistic student expectations and effective curricula. Underpinned by constructivist theories of research (Kukla, 2000) and learning (Dewey 1916) the study sought to understand the value of a degree through the experiences and perceptions of graduates. It explored with them how they recognise and allocate value within well-established areas such as economic/financial, academic and personal, defined by previous researchers including Barnett (1990), Mezirow (1991) and Caul (1993). A mixed methods two-phase study gathered quantitative and qualitative data from 15 interviews and an online survey of 202 graduates from universities in England across all institutional mission groups. Graduates were invited to examine and allocate the relative value of their degree in economic/financial, academic and personal terms. The primary conclusion was that whilst 99 per cent of graduates perceived value in their degree they attributed least value to the economic/financial benefits. This indicates a discrepancy between graduate perceptions of value and the hegemonic cost/benefit discourse that underpins political policy around individual tuition fees. The findings additionally determined a statistically significant relationship between students’ entry motivation and graduate perception of degree value. Graduates whose entry motivation as students had been to meet the expectations of others were more likely to perceive lower value in their degree than those motivated by personal aspiration and a career goal requiring a degree. Graduates reporting the highest value perceptions also evidenced selfauthorship during their degrees. The relationship between high perceptions of value and likelihood to recommend a degree or institution emerged as statistically significant. Analysis of the findings resulted in the creation of a conceptual model of graduate perception of value which recommends institutions resource drawing on the graduate voice to develop and sustain value within and surrounding a degree to sustain their work. The findings revealed implications for sustaining student enrolment and institutional advancement in an increasingly commercialised, competitive and marketised sector. The thesis demonstrates ways in which regular collation and publication of graduate perceptions of value evidence, and inform, the legacy of undergraduate degrees across the sector and from specific institutions.

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Graduate unemployment, more specifically the continued inability of young people to make a successful transition from institutions of higher learning to labour markets, remains a key concern and one of the most pressing socio-economic issues facing South Africa. Of similar concern, has been the inordinate length of time it takes for graduates (particularly black graduates) to acquire employment. This research study was undertaken in an attempt to understand employment trends among black graduates: its specific aim is to determine, the length of time it takes for black graduates to acquire employment after graduation. As a secondary aim the study also seeks to determine the underlying causes of long-lasting unemployment. The study investigated the employment circumstances involving a sample of 40 graduate participants from Motherwell Township: it was discovered that it took from 1-3 years for the respondents to acquire employment. The study also found that relative to their male counterparts it took much longer for female graduate participants to acquire employment. It also emerged that the type of qualification possessed by the graduates was a determining factor in the likelihood of their gaining employment timeously.

Douglas College Business Program students have graduated for the past twenty-two years. This study was undertaken to examine three specific aspects of the 'impact' that the Douglas College educational experience has had on these business graduates. Impact, as defined by Alfred (1982), is the sum total of outcomes, changes and benefits produced by a college. Through the use of Astin's model of the components of the process of higher education, specific outcomes related to employment, finances and further educational development were investigated. A survey was conducted of graduates from selected business programs from the years 1981 and 1986. Analyses were carried out to determine outcomes of having graduated from a Douglas College business program. It was found that the Douglas College business program graduates experienced positive outcomes related to employment, finances, and pursuit of further education. Graduates perceived that the benefits related to employment were more important than other benefits related to their educational experience. / Education, Faculty of / Educational Studies (EDST), Department of / Graduate

This thesis is focused on personnel marketing, its goals and its importance to employers. The application of personnel marketing in business practice should be based on good knowledge of potential employees' interests and expectations. The goal of this thesis is to identify specific factors of recruitment of fresh graduates on the Czech labour market and to find out some specifics in their expectations in comparison with other applicants for a job.

The diploma thesis is focused on the situation of university graduates in Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries. The main objective of the thesis is to analyse opinions, attitudes and expectations of today's university graduates in the CEE region, with focus on the Czech Republic, Croatia, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia, and then, based on this analysis, to define recommendations for companies. This analytical part is preceded by a general definition of relationship between university graduates and companies, concentrating particularly on their recruitment, as well as description of labour market and system of tertiary education in CEE countries. Furthermore, education policy of European Union and its influence on development of tertiary education systems in the region is also mentioned.

The thesis deals with the career development of VSE faculties' graduates at the labour market. The goal of this thesis was to find out, how the working career looks like after finishing studies and how it is developing. There are described fields of the first job, career growth after eighteen months, the ratio of managerial positions in several categories, a salary height, a holiday length, the size of companies etc. The specifications which the employers require from graduates are approached in the theoretical part where the youth unemployment in other European states is described as well.