Workforce Improvement and Lifelong Learning: A New Paradigm for Education and Training in the USA.

Ferguson, Richard L.

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ERIC Number: EJ507843

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Publication Date: 1995

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Workforce Improvement and Lifelong Learning: A New Paradigm for Education and Training in the USA.

Ferguson, Richard L.

Industry & Higher Education, v9 n4 p241-47 Aug 1995

Education and adult life/work are concurrent, not consecutive. To address this new paradigm, Work Keys provide a common language for education and business to prepare people for education and employment transitions. Work Keys components are job profiling, skills assessments, and targets for instruction. (SK)

Descriptors: Competence, Corporate Education, Education Work Relationship, Job Analysis, Labor Force Development, Lifelong Learning, Skill Development, Standards

Publication Type: Opinion Papers; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Work Keys (ACT)

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