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Download full textDuscha, Steve; Graves, Wanda Lee – 1999
This document describes customized, employer-specific training programs for incumbent workers and new hires operated in 45 states. Unlike federal programs, state programs are economic tools to attract and retain jobs; are employer-, not worker-centered; have few requirements for targeting individuals; and train incumbent workers for new jobs or…
Descriptors: Government Role, Government School Relationship, Inplant Programs, Instructional Student Costs
Wisconsin State Board of Vocational, Technical, and Adult Education, Madison. – 1985
During 1985, the Wisconsin Board of Vocational, Technical, and Adult Education (VTAE) expanded its delivery of instruction via television. Approximately 3,000 persons at 170 sites throughout the United States and Canada participated in the VTAE's Technical School of the Air. In addition to delivering six to eight courses per semester, the network…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Consultation Programs, Curriculum Development, Delivery Systems
Skule, Sveinung; Reichborn, Anders N.; Leren, Iver Jan, Ed. – 2002
In this report, learning conditions in Norwegian workplaces were examined to identify ways of making workplaces more conducive to learning. Data were collected through interviews in 11 firms and a questionnaire survey of 1,300 private sector and 200 public sector employees. Opportunities to learn through work varied widely. Older women with little…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Learning, Certification, Corporate Education
Long, Michael; Lamb, Stephen – 2002
Changes in the extent, pattern, and outcomes of young Australians' participation in firm-based training from the 1980s to the 1990s were analyzed by comparing data from the Australian Youth Survey (AYS) and the Australian Longitudinal Survey (ALS). In 1994, 46% of those in the AYS sample participated in formal training (at age 16-24 years) and…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Corporate Education, Education Work Relationship, Educational Attainment
