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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...
The vocational baccalauréat 30 years on
In the most recent issue of Formation Emploi, a number of researchers explore the many facets of this vocational qualification, which was introduced in 1985. Does the vocational bac produce professionals? Does it contribute to the promotion and devel...
After higher education, then what? Génération 2010 survey 2013 wave
When wind power goes to sea : a breath of fresh air for existing occupations
The emergence of the marine renewable energy (MRE) industry has not, strictly speaking, led to the creation of new professions or occupations. However, it is likely to change those for which firms find it difficult to recruit by redistributing their...
2013 survey of the 2010 cohort: Crisis makes school-to-work transition for CAP-BEP holders even more difficult
Three years into their working lives, the unemployment rate among the young people who completed secondary vocational education in 2010 was 24%. The crisis has hit holders of the CAP and BEP head on, causing their labour market situation to deteriora...
The development of non-academic skills
Youth unemployment and job quality in times of crisis : a European overview
SMEs are increasingly interested in the effects of training
Obtaining a post-initial qualification: a second chance for young people with at best lower secondary qualifications to access better jobs?
When holders of the baccalauréat return to education or training
Increasing numbers of young people who left school with the baccalauréat are returning to education or training in the first few years after their departure from the education system. This trend does not simply reflect a strategic withdrawal in the f...
Leavers from higher education: increased levels of education have not prevented a rise in unemployment
The young people who left higher education in 2010 and were surveyed as part of Céreq’s education-to-work transition surveys are not immune to the effects of the deteriorating economic situation. Although they are more highly qualified as a result of...
2013 survey of the 2010 cohort: The gap between levels of qualification widens as the crisis deepens
In 2013, three years after leaving the education system, 22% of economically active young people were looking for work. This is the highest level ever observed in Céreq’s school-to-work transition surveys. The increase compared with the 2004 co...
School drop-outs: the lessons from an experiment linking education and health services
The young persons' guidance and support programmes (ateliers pédagogiques/APs) at the Jean Wier Medico-Psychological Centre in Nanterre are an innovative project in the fight against early school leaving. They are run by professionals from the health...
'Men tend to be go-getting but women are better organised': what recruiters say about job applicants and gender
Discrimination when hiring new staff is punishable by law. And yet gender is seldom a neutral criterion during the recruitment process. The assumption that women are less flexible in respect of their working hours is not the only issue at stake. A wh...
Continuing training for employees in Europe: the differences between countries continue to narrow
More European employees undertook training in 2010 than ten years previously. The latest European survey of continuing training in enterprises also shows that there are still considerable differences between countries, even though they are tending to...
Raising awareness among science students of their future careers and employability
Long sheltered from unemployment, science students today have to give some thought to preparing for their entry into working life. The French Science Insert project, selected from among the projects funded by the Fonds d'expérimentation pour la jeune...
Preventing young people's involvement in drug dealing - The value of mutual learning in groups of professionals
There are now many groups involved in professional practice analysis ; they differ in their theoretical frameworks, methodologies, the object of their analyses and their aims. Since they involve several institutions and professions, some of them enco...