Are Youth Connected?: Engagement in Education and Employment Among Foster YouthBrittani Kindle, BA
Youth not in education, employment, or training (NEET) struggle to navigate school to work transitions and experience difficulties accessing jobs [1]. These youth are disconnected from school, have limited work experience [2], and experience a loss of economic, social, and human capital [3]. ...
Education, literacy and numeracy programs were blended with employment and livelihood training, leadership, service learning, and civic engagement for more than 200,000 youth. This article explores what has been learned and what next steps should be. Out-of-school youth face increased challenges in...
ADDIS ABABA, Feb. 10 (Xinhua) -- United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres has commended the African Union (AU) for launching an initiative aimed at reaching millions of African youth with opportunities in key areas of employment, entrepreneurship, education and engagement. The chairperson of...
This accords with the time allocation literature, suggesting that part-time work can reduce the quality or quantity of engagement with education during nominally “full-time schooling”. Analogously to Light (2001), our research questions can be stated: “How does the causal effect of part-time ...
The Europe 2020 Strategy (launched in 2010) has a strong focus on young adults, with a headline target of reducing early school‐leaving from 15% to 10%, and increasing the share of higher education graduates from 31% to at least 40% by 2020. The Youth Employment Package (2012) put for...
While young refugees demonstrated great capacity to act and find new pathways through difficult situations, these tended to be temporary. The political focus on repatriation kept the young refugees in prolonged uncertainty, which affected their capacities to aspire as well as their engagement in future...
Together, this shows that a substantial number of Canadian youth are NEET and may benefit from support to increase engagement in employment, education or training. Although there is ample research exploring youth unemployment in Canada, there is little further research specific to the NEET metric ...
The current study looks at the Summer Youth Engagement Program in New York State (NYSYEP). NYSYEP attempts to engage youth in a variety of pro-social activities including employment; education programs; organized recreation programs; and, volunteer work or community service. The hypothesis for the...
another “Airport Youth Career Day” in mid-December 2024, featuring job fairs and career talks by industry practitioners as well as visits. Young people can be inspired by diverse job opportunities and plan their career while aviation enthusiasts can also get useful employment and study information...