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New England Board of Higher Education, 2018
Surveys of New England employers, college academic officers, and graduates find that many consider today's college graduates inadequately prepared for the world of work. In 2017, the New England Board of Higher Education convened the Commission on Higher Education & Employability, under the leadership of Rhode Island Governor Gina M. Raimondo.…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Employment Potential, College Graduates, Career Readiness
Groves, Garrett – NGA Center for Best Practices, 2014
Governors are increasingly aware that the emerging economy will provide few well-paying jobs for workers who have not earned a postsecondary degree or a relevant workforce certificate. Fifty years ago, nearly 80 percent of all jobs required only a high school diploma or less and most paid a good wage. Fast-forward to data from 2013 and that number…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Job Training, Labor Force Development, Postsecondary Education
Rosenthal, Neal H.; Pilot, Michael – 1983
Intended to foster greater understanding of employment projections available from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), this paper describes their development, their limitations, their use, and publication details. The methods used to develop BLS occupational employment projections are first described: projection of the labor force based on…
Descriptors: Demography, Educational Planning, Employment Patterns, Employment Projections
Taylor, Robert E., Ed.; And Others – 1983
These 19 papers from the second annual Policy Forum on Employability Development explore the responsiveness of various educational and training institutions to changing labor market demands. The first three papers provide an overview of the forum. They summarize the proceedings and policy considerations and address how vocational education and…
Descriptors: Change, Cooperative Programs, Coordination, Demand Occupations
Engbretson, William E.; Reter, Ronald F. – 1981
A national literature search was conducted on the state of the art that identified linkage activities and model linkage programs; a survey and follow-up questionnaire that identified 107 exemplary projects and received materials on 40 of them; and visits to 30 projects in the Chicago area and Illinois, California, Nevada, Colorado, Michigan, Ohio,…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Disadvantaged, Education Work Relationship, Educational Planning
1980
This inventory of research and evaluation projects completed during calendar years 1970-1979 for the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Policy, Education, and Research (ASPER) of the Department of Labor contains summaries of projects on economic, social, and policy background; the labor market; the nature and impact of Department of Labor…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Affirmative Action, Age Discrimination, Economic Factors
Lambert, Roger H.; Caulum, David A. – 1978
The Wisconsin Career Information System (WCIS) is a joint effort by several state agencies, institutions, and interested individuals to develop and disseminate accurate, current, and locally relevant occupational information to assist persons making vocational choices. One of eight state-wide occupational information systems funded by the U.S.…
Descriptors: Career Education, Educational Finance, Employment, Employment Opportunities