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Evaluation des Rahmenlehrplans für den Bildungsgang «dipl. Betriebswirtschafter/in HF», Bericht zur zweiten Befragungswelle 2015
(2016)KOF StudiesDie vorliegende Studie untersucht, ob der Rahmenlehrplan des Bildungsgangs «dipl. Betriebswirtschafter/in Höhere Fachschule» an den Höheren Fachschulen für Wirtschaft (RLP HFW) den Anforderungen der Studierenden und Arbeitgebern gerecht wird. Dabei sollen Schwachstellen identifiziert werden, die auf Verbesserungspotential im Rahmen einer Revision des RLP HFW hinweisen.Report -
Comparative Advantages of School and Workplace Environment in Competence Acquisition: Empirical Evidence From a Survey Among Professional Tertiary Education and Training Students in Switzerland
(2015)KOF Working PapersThis paper sheds light on the questions how important competences are and which competences can best be learned at school and which competences can be acquired better in the workplace. Exploiting data from a survey among professional tertiary education and training business administration students and their employers in Switzerland, we find that competences related to strategic management, human resource management, organizational design ...Working Paper -
The Swiss Vocational Education and Training System: What Can Spain Learn from Switzerland?
(2015)KOF Working PapersSwitzerland is famous for its vocational education and training (VET) system. This article describes Switzerland’s success in integrating adolescents into the labour market, with emphasis on two aspects. First, dual-track VET, which combines learning at school and in host companies, is an attractive choice for adolescents. It prepares them for the labour market and for progression routes to higher education. Second, the firm’s decision ...Working Paper -
Drivers and Barriers of Scaling-Up the Dual VETApprenticeship Programme in Nepal
(2020)CES StudiesThe ENSSURE project entails a component of introducing a Dual VET-Apprenticeship in Nepal. This new formal upper secondary education programme combines about one day of classroom education with about five days of workplace training each week for two years. While this project is in its pilot phase, the question arises whether and how this pilot might represent a first step towards a Dual VET-Apprenticeship system in Nepal. Therefore, this ...Report -
Projection of Net Benefits for Companies in the Dual VET-Apprenticeship Programme in Nepal
(2020)KOF StudiesThis project analyses the Dual VET-Apprenticeship programme in Nepal that is supported by the Enhanced Skills for Sustainable and Rewarding Employment (ENSSURE) project. This new technical and vocational education and training (TVET)4 programme lasts for two years, combines workplace training with classroom education and leads to a formal degree equivalent to a Technical School Leaving Certificate (TSLC). This working paper presents the ...Report -
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Vertical Educational Diversity and Innovation Performance
(2015)KOF Working PapersThis paper uses panel data of Swiss firms to analyze the impact of education?level diversity in the workforce on innovation performance, addressing endogeneity by exploiting within?firm variation as well as variation in labor supply across regions. We find that vertical educational diversity increases the extensive margin of R&D and product innovation, particularly new product innovation. However, the relationship with process innovation, ...Working Paper -
Has the relationship between formal education and the formal employment sector in Nepal changed between 1995 and 2014?
(2019)KOF Working PapersThis paper analyses the relationship between formal education and the formal employment sector in Nepal. The analysis of several individual-level surveys between 1995 and 2014 shows that completed tertiary education increases the probability to be wage-employed in the non- agricultural sector, while primary and secondary education has little relationship With wage- employment. However, primary, secondary and tertiary education all ...Working Paper