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Une Bref 447
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Cooperatives for ecology: is it a matter of organisation?

Besides professional activities directly linked to environmental protection, there are a number of sectors in which the ecological transition is a key issue guiding the development of their professional practices. This is the case of the social and s...

Céreq Bref, n° 447 , December 2023, 4 p.
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About environment and competences

The “ecological” or “green” transition has become a key concept in current political debates (e.g. the European Green New Deal in August 2021), following that of “sustainable development” promoted by the Rio Summit of 1992. Whatever the precise term...

In and Around, n° 3 , September 2022, 37 p.
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Cooperation for better career development advice: a close-up on local stakeholder practices

CEP (Career development advice), which was introduced in France in 2014 in line with the recommendations of the Council of the European Union Resolution of 21 November 2008 on Lifelong Guidance, is designed to guarantee personalised support for all w...

Training and Employment, n° 146 , June 2020, 4 p.
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Young people spending time abroad: European targets partially achieved, but access remains unequal

A European indicator, constructed in part using data from Céreq's Génération survey, shows that France is fairly well positioned when it comes to the time the country's students spend abroad in the course of their studies, even though the 2020 target...

Training and Employment, n° 136 , March 2019, 4 p.
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When Education has finished

The book presents the detailed results of the large-scale national survey carried out in the spring of 2016 among young people who left education in 2013. Over the past twenty years, the Céreq has conducted a series of triennial surveys, with a repr...

Cereq Surveys, n° 1 , October 2017, 76 p.
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PhDs' early career trajectories strongly differentiated

For those who obtained their PhDs in 2010, research remains the main opening. If they embark on careers in public-sector research, their trajectories during the first five years of their working lives are synonymous with periods of temporary employme...

Training and Employment, n° 127 , June 2017, 4 p.
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Quantity and quality of young employment in the evolving crisis

This  working paper provides a snapshot of labour market trends regarding the 15-29 year-old group across Europe in the first (2008-2010) and second period (2010-2013) of downturn, moving towards to a capability approach-inspired vision of emplo...

Net.Doc, n° 161 , June 2016, 29 p.
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Do young graduates with professional and vocational master's degrees regard themselves as competent to hold their jobs?

Professional and vocational courses requiring 5 years’ post-secondary study are supposed to meet specific needs for competences in a given area of employment. Young graduates believe they have acquired the specific competences they think their employ...

Training and Employment, n° 118 , December 2015, 4 p. p.
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After higher education, then what? Génération 2010 survey 2013 wave

What became of the 369,000 young people who left higher education in 2010, with or without a degree?  In order to answer that question, Céreq has analysed the first three years of the working lives of the 2010 cohort of leavers, who were surveye...

Nef, n° 52 , September 2015, 60 p.
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Youth unemployment and job quality in times of crisis : a European overview

Training and Employment, n° 115 , April 2015, 4 p.
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Obtaining a post-initial qualification: a second chance for young people with at best lower secondary qualifications to access better jobs?

Training and Employment, n° 113 , March 2015, 4 p.
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Making the transition from higher education to work: the variable effects of vocational courses

Young people who left higher education in 2007 have found it more difficult to find employment as a result of the economic crisis, as the 2010 survey of 2007 cohort of HE leavers shows. However, although unemployment has increased, job quality has, o...

Training and Employment, n° 97 , May 2012, 4 p.
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Green studies: an unsustainable bubble?

Students completing environment-related courses are encountering greater difficulties in finding employment than their peers in other disciplines. The reason is that the supply of new graduates exceeds firms' requirements. However, this general obser...

Training and Employment, n° 95 , December 2011, 4 p.
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Tough going in labour market for PhDs

One proven way of protecting oneself from 'precarity' and unemployment is to obtain a university degree. However, some PhDs are experiencing increasing difficulties in finding stable employment. Traditionally destined for careers in academic and othe...

Training and Employment, n° 91 , January 2011, 4 p.
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Recognition of higher education graduates' competences on European labour markets

The number of students attending higher education institutions has more than doubled in Europe during the last twenty-five years. The resulting flow of graduates on the labour market may justify the doubts expressed about these young people's career...

Training and Employment, n° 83 , December 2008, 4 p.