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Download full textAcademic Senate for California Community Colleges, 2009
This paper considers noncredit instruction in the California Community College System. It identifies three related concepts: a state need for increased levels of education that noncredit instruction is well placed to supply, several changes that begin to facilitate that response, and additional changes that are needed to ensure success. The…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. – 1994
This document contains testimony from two Senate hearings on the Reemployment and Training Act of 1994 by U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert B. Reich and other witnesses concerning the Act and the need for changes in the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act, which requires employers to notify employees of impending layoffs.…
Descriptors: Adults, Dislocated Workers, Employment Practices, Employment Programs
Piper, James W. – 2000
The focus of this publication is to maximize the ability of business, education, and community partners to access information relating to legal issues and minor labor laws that have implications for school-based and work-based learning experiences. Each section is intended to provide the most applicable legal and labor law information. Since…
Descriptors: Child Labor, Compliance (Legal), Federal Legislation, Federal Regulation
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Subcommittee on Labor and Human Resources. – 1981
This congressional hearing contains testimony given in Montpelier, Vermont, at the first of a series of nationwide hearings on vocational education. Focus of this particular hearing is on the specific needs of Vermont as a rural northeastern state to train a workforce that is talented enough to help retrain existing businesses and industry and…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Educational Legislation, Educational Needs, Educational Objectives
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. – 2002
This document contains the text of the Nurse Reinvestment Act, which amends the Public Health Service Act to address the increasing shortage of registered nurses by instituting a series of policies to improve nurse recruitment and nurse retention. Title I details two initiatives to boost recruitment of nurses. The first initiative includes the…
Descriptors: Accountability, Career Development, Career Ladders, Change Strategies
Employment and Training Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. Bureau of Apprenticeship and Training. – 1982
These national standards are designed to aid contractors, labor, and joint committees in setting up, conducting, and improving apprenticeship programs for individuals seeking to become skilled in the sheet metal industry. Covered in the individual sections are the following topics: the provisions of the apprenticeship standards (definitions,…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Definitions, Employment Practices, Federal Legislation
Employment and Training Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. Bureau of Apprenticeship and Training. – 1982
These revised national standards are designed to assist local unions in establishing local apprenticeship and training programs for drafters. Covered in the individual sections are the following topics: provisions of the apprenticeship standards for drafters (definitions, qualifications for application, the selection of applicants, credit for…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Architectural Drafting, Credits, Definitions
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Economic and Educational Opportunities. – 1995
This publication presents two hearings on how to establish and maintain a streamlined, top quality, and efficient system of work force preparation in the United States and the role of the federal government in developing such a system. Testimony consists of statements and prepared statements, letters, and supplemental materials from individuals…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Federal Government, Government Role, Hearings
Baumgart, Diane; And Others – 1987
The guide, developed by the Secondary Transition and Employment Project (STEP) in Idaho, is intended for agency or school staff developing a community-based vocational training program for persons with mild, moderate, or severe disabilities. The guide is intended to be used with three available video tapes. The first module's goal is the…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Education Work Relationship, Federal Legislation, Insurance
Comptroller General of the U.S., Washington, DC. – 1978
Improvement is needed in services offered by the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) and the U.S. Employment Service programs to give designated classes of Armed Forces veterans special treatment. This finding is based on reviews of six city programs and national program data. "Special treatment," although required, was not…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Employment Programs, Employment Services, Federal Legislation
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. – 1993
This report is a recommendation for passage of Senate bill S.4, the National Competitiveness Act of 1993, with an amendment. The purpose of this bill is to promote the industrial competitiveness and economic growth of the United States by strengthening and expanding the civilian technology programs of the Department of Commerce and amending the…
Descriptors: Competition, Computer Science, Computers, Economic Development
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and the Workforce. – 2002
This document reports on a Congressional hearing on assistance to workers dislocated or unemployed due to the serious economic deterioration impacting the country, partly due to the events of September 11, 2001. Testimony includes statements of United States Representatives John Boehner and George Miller; Michael Hannah, representing Local 13358,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Dislocated Workers, Economic Change, Economic Impact
Department for Education and Employment, London (England). – 2001
This document outlines how the government of the United Kingdom intends to achieve and sustain full employment and social justice across the country. Chapter 1 discusses the United Kingdom's economic, educational, and social problems and details plans to solve them through a policy based on the following principles: (1) building an economy with…
Descriptors: Agency Role, At Risk Persons, Basic Skills, Change Strategies
