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Download full textKarmel, Tom, Ed.; Maclean, Rupert, Ed. – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2007
One of the most striking features of the modern world is its changing demographic profile. In almost any policy arena, the issue of demographic change (or ageing) sits alongside globalisation, climate change and the knowledge revolution as areas which are transforming societies, including the ways in which we organise and go about our work…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Retraining, Older Workers, Aging (Individuals)
Africa Leadership Forum. – 1989
This document summarizes discussions at an invitational workshop on labor development in Nigeria. The discussion centered on the need to promote an individual work ethic and to improve the quality of life of the average worker. The following broad topics were discussed: (1) the negative effect of colonialism on individual productivity and the lack…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Developmental Programs, Economic Development, Foreign Countries
Sanyal, Bikas C.; And Others – 1990
Following a summary of the discussions of an intensive training course on education, employment, and work conducted in Botswana, this document contains the following 18 papers presented at the training course: "Education and Employment in Africa: An Overview" (Sanyal); "Diagnosis of the Employment Situation: Some Basic…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Developing Nations, Economic Development, Education Work Relationship
Colombo Plan Bureau (Sri Lanka). – 1976
Focusing on the last in a series of seven seminars conducted by the Colombo Plan Bureau between 1969 and 1975 on the theme, "National Planning of Vocational and Technical Training," this report presents the proceedings of a seminar on the vocational education and training needs of one of the Colombo Plan members, Bhutan. Five working…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Economic Development, Human Resources, International Organizations
World Confederation of Organizations of the Teaching Profession, Morges (Switzerland). – 1979
It is vitally important for workers in all regions of the world to form unions and to exercise the rights and discharge the responsibilities which membership involves. The right to organize or join a union is essential not only for the welfare of the individual worker, or for all of those belonging to the union, but also for the welfare of society…
Descriptors: Civil Liberties, Developing Nations, Elementary Secondary Education, Global Approach
Klenovsek, Tanja Vilic, Ed.; Olesen, Henning Salling, Ed. – 1994
This book contains papers, reports, and welcoming speeches from a seminar for European adult education researchers. The following are included: "Background and Thematic Outline for the ESREA (European Society for Research on the Education of Adults) Seminar on Research into Adult Education and the Labor Market" (Olesen); "Welcoming…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Developed Nations, Developing Nations, Education Work Relationship
Colombo Plan Bureau (Sri Lanka). – 1975
Proceedings of the Sixth Colloquium on Intra-Regional Technical Training sponsored jointly by the Colombo Plan and the Government of Malaysia are presented in this report. Four working papers are presented centered around three main areas of concern: influence of technical education on economic development; how the status of technicians could be…
Descriptors: Craft Workers, Developing Nations, Economic Development, Educational Innovation
Asian Development Bank, Manila (Philippines). – 1988
In May 1987 a regional workshop was organized in Japan under the technical assistance program of the Asian Development Bank with the collaboration of the Asian and Pacific Skill Development Programme of the International Labour Organisation and the support of the Ministry of Labor of the government of Japan. The workshop addressed the major issues…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Economic Development, Foreign Countries, Labor Force Development
Blanchet-Cohen, Natasha; Hart, Stuart; Cook, Philip – 2001
The 2nd International Conference on Children's Rights in Education hosted approximately 150 child-centered international policy makers, who discussed the implications and implementation of children's rights to guide educational policy, research, and practice. This report presents an annotated agenda of the conference proceedings and, based on the…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Change Strategies, Child Labor, Child Welfare
European Training Foundation, Turin (Italy). – 2001
This report presents findings from a Cairo conference on vocational education and training (VET) standards. It focuses on four European Training Foundation documents. Chapter 1 introduces an international model for development of standards and explains how to identify employment requirements based on labor market analysis and a questionnaire (and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Case Studies, Competency Based Education, Developing Nations
International Labour Office, Geneva (Switzerland). – 2000
This report examines the human resources development and training dimensions of the gradual, but inexorable, shift towards knowledge-, skill-, and service-based economies and societies, and the stupendous growth of the information and communications technology sectors. Its four chapters explore the following: (1) globalization, technological…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Developed Nations, Developing Nations, Economic Development
Brendler, William, Comp.; And Others – 1975
SHOP (Skilled Hands Overseas Program) is described as an informal arrangement between the Peace Corps and technical colleges, universities, companies, and unions around the United States to send representatives from these organizations on field trips to countries where Peace Corps volunteers are serving as teachers in vocational-technical,…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Educational Needs, Educational Programs, Foreign Countries
Labour Education, 1985
Presents a selection of views and opinions expressed during the International Labor Conference on the importance of workers' education and training, extracts from resolutions concerning the Commission on Equality of Opportunity and Treatment, and a commentary on a draft resolution by workers' delegates on access to education and training. (CT)
Descriptors: Access to Education, Developing Nations, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Females
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Bangkok (Thailand). Regional Office for Education in Asia and the Pacific. – 1985
Presentations and other materials are provided from the Asia and the Pacific Programme of Educational Innovation for Development (APEID) Planning and Review Meeting on Work as an Integral Part of General Education. The focus is on how education, through an orientation to work, could help to decrease the gravity of the problems of population…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Economic Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Saxena, J. C., Ed.; Sachdeva, J. L., Ed. – 1986
This publication contains six presentations from a seminar that stressed that the problem of adult education should be viewed from the angle of human resource development and all necessary interdepartmental linkages should be developed. The keynote address, "Major Challenges and Prospects of Adult Education for the Year 2000" (T. M.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Citizen Role, Citizenship Education, Citizenship Responsibility
