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Strebel, Alexandra – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2023
Collective skill formation systems thrive if employers' skill needs are reflected in apprenticeship training programmes and firms offer apprenticeship positions. Occupation-level adaptation processes underpin these systems, which offer upper-secondary level vocational education leading to hundreds of occupations. Yet, it is considered challenging…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Apprenticeships, Vocational Education, Job Skills
Wibrow, Bridget; Waugh, Joanne – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2021
This project is focused on the second element noted by the Australian Industry Skills Committee (AISC) to streamline the national vocational education and training (VET) system so that it can better respond to the needs of industry -- faster development of qualifications. It looks at the vocational qualification development processes in different…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Labor Needs, Industry
Rutschow, Elizabeth Zachry; Beal, Katie; Johnson, Chase – MDRC, 2019
In the United States, approximately one in ten adults -- nearly 36 million people -- lack basic literacy and numeracy skills, while 27 million adults lack a high school diploma. Over the last decade, new models for adult education have emerged that integrate basic skills education with workforce and college-readiness training. These integrated…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Career Readiness, Job Skills, Adult Basic Education
Lerman, Robert I.; Packer, Arnold – Abell Foundation, 2015
Youth transitions to rewarding careers remain a critical problem for America's current and future workforce. In Baltimore, where only one in five graduates of Baltimore City Public Schools matriculates to a four-year college and the unemployment rate for 16 to 19 year-olds is over 40 percent, opportunities to gain meaningful training and work…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, Urban Areas, Apprenticeships, Program Effectiveness
Phillips, Andrea; Pane, John F.; Bogart, Andy – RAND Corporation, 2018
The Kentucky Valley Educational Cooperative and Green River Regional Educational Cooperative received an Investing in Innovation (i3) development grant from the U.S. Department of Education to implement the Creating College and Career Readiness (C3R) initiative. The initiative offered a suite of software developed by WIN Learning (WIN) to support…
Descriptors: Career Readiness, College Readiness, Program Effectiveness, Program Evaluation
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Majid, Shaista; Razzak, Adeela – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2015
This study was conducted to designing a model of vocational training programs for disables. For this purpose desk review was carried out and the vocational training models/programs of Israel, U.K., Vietnam, Japan and Thailand were analyzed to form a conceptual framework of the model. Keeping in view the local conditions/requirements a model of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Instructional Design, Models, Vocational Education
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Hart Barnett, Juliet E.; Crippen, Robert – Physical Disabilities: Education and Related Services, 2014
Despite the transition requirements mandated by IDEA, and a growing body of research supporting effective transition planning for learners with autism spectrum disorders and intellectual disability, current national surveys of transition from school to work document dismal employment outcomes for adults with significant disabilities who frequently…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Mental Retardation, Transitional Programs