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VandenHeuvel, Adriana; Wooden, Mark – 1999
This study described current and past levels of casual employment (CE) and outsourcing in the Australian work force and identified how they are related to training. Data sources included two rounds of the Australian Workplace Industrial Relations Survey and Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) surveys of training and education experience. ABS…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Contracts, Employer Employee Relationship, Foreign Countries
College of the Canyons, Santa Clarita, CA. – 1999
In 1998, the College of the Canyon's (California) Office of Institutional Development distributed a questionnaire to ascertain the technology training needs of campus personnel. The survey instrument included 49 forced-choice and 2 open-ended questions. Seventy-five staff members and 124 faculty returned the questionnaires. The responses are…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Improvement, Educational Technology
Creech, Joseph D. – 1999
The percentage of adults with high school diplomas is higher today than 10 years ago in every Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) state, but most SREB states will not reach the goal of 90 percent of all adults with high school diplomas or equivalent by 2000. The change is the result of state and local efforts to identify and attract more…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Educational Opportunities, English (Second Language)
Lyons, Dave – 1981
A project was undertaken in Humboldt County to collect information from large and small businesses in the areas of agriculture, mining, manufacturing, transportation, wholesale and retail, finance, services, and public information with respect to their employee requirements and needs. In all, 451 firms were surveyed to determine the size of the…
Descriptors: Employer Attitudes, Employment Level, Employment Opportunities, Employment Programs
Carr, Neil – 1980
This report contains tables and a narrative summary of significant findings from a study of participants in the adult education literacy program operated in the state of New York for the year 1979-80. Charts and tables provide data on nineteen aspects of the program. These are annual program goals, student demographic composite, unemployed…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Enrollment
Australian Dept. of Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs, Canberra. – 1996
This volume contains all statistical data from a research project that determined the impact of workplace language and literacy inclusive training (LLIT) on key aspects of the workplace in regard to the whole process of workplace change. The document presents the principal data on which the findings and recommendations are based. A general…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills