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UK Department for Education, 2024
Skills Bootcamps were introduced to support adults to upskill and retrain in priority high-growth sectors with skills shortages. Skills Bootcamps are short, flexible courses, that are co-designed with employers and run for up to 16 weeks. Most are equivalent to the National Vocational Qualification (NVQ) levels 3-5 in the national qualifications…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Job Skills, Minicourses, Career and Technical Education
UK Department for Education, 2024
Skills Bootcamps were introduced to support the 2019 UK Government's manifesto commitment to giving adults the opportunity to build sector-specific skills and to help employers by giving people the skills they need to move into jobs in sectors with skills shortages. Skills Bootcamps are short, flexible courses, co-designed with employers and run…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Job Skills, Minicourses, Career and Technical Education
Schaberg, Kelsey – MDRC, 2020
While the COVID-19 pandemic has led to high unemployment rates overall, low-wage workers have been hit particularly hard. It is likely that many of the jobs lost as a result of the current recession will never return, even as new jobs are created. Some job seekers may have to learn new skills so they can find employment in a new field. Sector…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Job Training, Retraining
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Ivanova, Olga; Shalashova, Marina; Tareva, Elena; Gavrilyuk, Oksana – Education Sciences, 2021
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the practical aspects of training for parents and teachers of chronically ill children who are under long-term treatment in medical institutions. The paper identifies knowledge, attitudes and practices associated with both formal and non-formal education programs for teachers and parents of children…
Descriptors: Hospitals, Hospitalized Children, Special Schools, Informal Education
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Mkrttchian, Vardan; Rozhkova, Liliya; Salnikova, Olga; Vlazneva, Svetlana – International Journal of Virtual and Personal Learning Environments, 2021
The problem of educational potential and work potential is multifaceted. First, it is necessary to increase their rational use for sustainable development of the country. Secondly, the value components of educational potential and work potential of young people are unstable and contradictory. This fact leads to socio-cultural features and has an…
Descriptors: Unemployment, Out of School Youth, Adolescents, Young Adults
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Hall, Nathan C.; Jackson Gradt, Shannan E.; Goetz, Thomas; Musu-Gillette, Lauren E. – Journal of Experimental Education, 2011
The present study evaluated the effectiveness of an attributional retraining program for helping upper-level undergraduates perform better in employment interviews as moderated by self-esteem levels. The sample consisted of 50 co-operative education students preparing for actual job interviews who were randomly assigned to an attributional…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Attribution Theory, Student Employment, Retraining
Igbo, Janet N.; Eze, Justina U.; Eskay, M.; Onu, V. C.; Omeje, J. – Online Submission, 2012
This study investigated the influence of retraining programme on self-esteem of primary school teachers in Ebonyi State of Nigeria. The study was guided by one research question and a null hypothesis. A purposively selected sample of 775 primary school teachers who attended capacity building retraining programme provided the data collected using…
Descriptors: Retraining, Foreign Countries, Hypothesis Testing, Urban Teaching
Hilliard, Tom – Jobs for the Future, 2011
In 2007, Michigan undertook a bold mission: to retrain tens of thousands of adults to qualify for jobs in emerging and expanding sectors of the economy. The state's proposal to jobless, dislocated, and low-income residents was simple but appealing: enroll in up to two years of postsecondary education, and Michigan would cover up to $5,000 in…
Descriptors: Credentials, Economic Progress, Dislocated Workers, Community Colleges
Hall, Donna Jo – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Beginning in the 1970s, low-wage manufacturing areas in advanced industrialized countries experienced deindustrialization and worker dislocation as transnational corporations left for sites of lower-cost labor. In response, communities sought to rebuild their economies and pursue new employment opportunities in the restructured labor markets of…
Descriptors: Structural Unemployment, Economic Progress, Human Capital, Dislocated Workers
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Jacobs, Ronald L. – New Horizons in Adult Education & Human Resource Development, 2006
This article presents a perspective on the relationship between adult education and human resource development of the past two decades and the subsequent emergence of workforce development. The lesson taken from the article should be more than simply a recounting of events related to these fields of study. Instead, the more general lesson may be…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Human Resources, Labor Force Development, Intellectual Disciplines