The monograph examines reasons for declining placement of people with disabilities reported since 1970 by vocational rehabilitation programs. It begins by briefly noting the changing face of industrial society and suggests the need to reexamine traditional concepts of work as paid employment. The effects of new technologies are traced, along with…

Describes the needs and method for a greater understanding and articulation between British business industrialists and postsecondary educators in terms of attracting college graduates that possess higher standards of education and training for entry job levels. (HD)

Data were obtained from the National Child Development Study (NCDS), a large-scale longitudinal study in the United Kingdom following up a sample of people born in a single week in 1958 through to adult life, to demonstrate that poor numeracy skills have a major impact. At age 37, a 10 percent sample of 1,714 cohort members were interviewed and…

This report on the first stage of a proposed two-stage project, provides, in nontechnical language a general consideration of the relationship between higher education and employment that is intended to provide a policy background to the specific measures that will be elaborated in the second stage. The report also presents an account of the scale…

The relationship between literacy, numeracy, and employability was examined by analyzing data on basic skills that were collected in two of Great Britain's birth cohort studies--the National Child Development Study and the 1970 British Cohort Study. The functional literacy and numeracy skills of samples of 10% of the participants in each study…