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Kotamraju, Pradeep – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2014
India is at the cusp of becoming an economic powerhouse. For that to happen, however, the country needs to alter its workforce education system by reengineering the Indian Vocational Education and Training (VET) System. India's VET strategy includes creating basic work-centered common curriculum for the unskilled; developing a more flexible and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Change Strategies, Strategic Planning
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Lakes, Richard D. – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2012
Neoliberal governments consider global business competitiveness to be thwarted by costly bureaucratic regulation and programme duplication. In an effort to downsize the costs of operating a state, the governors now streamline job training functions via a coordinated workforce and economic development effort known as sector strategies, with…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Job Training, Economic Climate, Vocational Education
O'Rear, Susan – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Across the United States, partnerships have formed between business and industry and rural community college workforce development customize training programs to meet the demands of the 21st century labor market. For many business and industry managers, a partnership has become a necessary means to train the unskilled as well as update skills…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Industry, Labor Force Development, Semi Structured Interviews
Hemmelman, Chris – Techniques: Connecting Education and Careers (J1), 2011
As community and technical colleges work to train workers for green-energy jobs, they face myriad challenges. Among them are the recession and the financial strain it places on institutions' ability to develop programs, trying to meet the demand for trained workers that is a projection and not a certainty, and training low-skilled individuals for…
Descriptors: Technical Institutes, Community Colleges, Energy Education, Labor Force Development
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Schmeling, Daniel M.; Rose, Kevin – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2010
Three Northeast Texas community colleges put aside service delivery areas and matters of "turf" to create Centers of Excellence that provided training throughout a nine county area. This consortium; along with 14 manufacturers, seven economic development corporations, and the regional workforce board, led the change in training a highly…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Change Agents, Technical Education, Regional Schools