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Employability, Globalization and Lifelong Learning--A Scottish Perspective.
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Mills, Vince – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2002
The ideological transformation of the Labour Party to New Labour has resulted in supply-side approaches to lifelong learning that are not succeeding in Scotland's low-wage, low-skill economy. Despite the rhetoric, acquiring job skills does not automatically result in employability, without government intervention. (Contains 15 references.) (SK)
Descriptors: Employment Potential, Foreign Countries, Government Role, Ideology
Lifelong Learning in the New Economy: A Great Leap Backwards.
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Cruikshank, Jane – Canadian Journal of University Continuing Education, 2001
Analyzes the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development's Jobs Study, which advocated a two-tier economy: high-skill jobs and low-skill, low-wage jobs to absorb the unemployed. Shows how Canada has adopted some of these strategies under the guise of structural adjustment. Advocates a social policy role for adult educators. (Contains 35…
Descriptors: Adult Educators, Economic Change, Economic Development, Foreign Countries
The Challenge of New Technology to Labor-Management Relations. Summary of a Conference (Washington, D.C., October 19-20, 1988).
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Mowery, David C., Ed.; Henderson, Bruce E., Ed. – 1989
This document summarizes a conference organized around four broad topics: (1) skill and employment effects of new technologies; (2) health and safety effects; (3) strategies and tactics for improving labor-management relations; and (4) the role of public and private training and retraining programs. Four conference papers are included as follows:…
Descriptors: Continuing Education, Cooperative Programs, Emerging Occupations, Human Resources
Relationship of Education to Employment in the United States. Reports Studies C.93.
Stern, Barry E. – 1981
This policy study of official efforts to develop the relationship between education and employment in the United States focuses on both the transition of youth from school to work and the education and employment system for adults. Federal legislation is overviewed, and federal programs for youth to improve the relationship of education to…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adults, Case Studies, Dropouts
Skills Training for School Leavers: Some Alternative Approaches. Current Issues Brief No. 2.
Fraser, Doug – 1983
In the face of escalating youth unemployment, some new approaches are needed for training out-of-school youth in Australia. The current system of apprenticeship has become outmoded because many of the skilled trades that the system prepares young people for will soon be non-existent. One approach to this problem has been implementation of…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Economic Development, Education Work Relationship, Educational Change
Training for Employment: Social Inclusion, Productivity, and Youth Employment. Human Resources Training and Development: Vocational Guidance and Vocational Training. Report V. International Labour Conference (88th Session, 2000). Fifth Item on the Agenda.
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