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Stephen Billett – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2021
Competence in contemporary working life requirements is increasingly aligned with electronically mediated tasks and work roles: ie, the digitalisation of work. This alignment necessitates workers learning and utilising the conceptual knowledge and ways of working needed for this work. This knowledge is often distinct from and displaces workers'…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, On the Job Training, Skill Development, Professional Development
Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE), 2011
Unemployment rates remain high as a result of U.S. economic conditions, exacerbated by the loss of jobs to globalization and increased use of technology to produce goods and deliver services. Individuals who lose their jobs are having a much harder time finding new work than in the past, and there are many workers who are forced to work only part…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Job Training, Retraining, Job Skills
LaLonde, Robert; Sullivan, Daniel – Hamilton Project, 2010
Robert LaLonde of the University of Chicago and Daniel Sullivan of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago suggest that retraining through our nation's community colleges is a way to reduce the skills gaps of at least some of these displaced workers and increase their reemployment earnings. Although workers may still experience significant earnings…
Descriptors: Retraining, Vocational Education, Community Colleges, Grants
Wright, James E. – Lifelong Learning, 1983
Identifies problems associated with the transition to a postindustrial America as they relate to the role of adult education in the human and economic development task of retraining adults. (JOW)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Economic Development, Retraining, Skill Development
Council for Adult and Experiential Learning (NJ1), 2009
Regions around the country are grappling with current and anticipated skills shortages and, in some cases, labor shortages. Economic prosperity depends heavily on the quality of the workforce, and yet far too few regions have recognized their best underutilized asset: the mature workforce. Because mature workers are nearing traditional retirement…
Descriptors: Maturity (Individuals), Job Placement, Special Programs, Skilled Workers

Kurnow, Ernest – ADFL Bulletin, 1983
Describes New York University's program for retraining recipients of Ph.D.'s in the humanities for careers in business. (EKN)
Descriptors: Business, Career Change, Doctoral Degrees, Humanities
Hart, Gordon M. – 1979
This monograph examines the content and quality of counselor education programs and activities in both preservice and inservice training. It describes selected preservice programs and discussed the components that make them effective. It then presents various theoretical training models, with recommendations for innovative techniques that…
Descriptors: Counselor Training, Counselors, Employment Patterns, Graduate Study

West, Gaby – CALICO Journal, 1989
Discusses the development and production of TOPIC (Training for Oral Proficiency Interviewing Competence), an interactive video refresher training program that teaches interviewing and evaluation skills to German oral proficiency testers. The program can be used as a prototype for the development of refresher training programs in other languages.…
Descriptors: Examiners, Interactive Video, Interviews, Language Proficiency
Lampi, Heikki – International Journal of Institutional Management in Higher Education, 1984
Finland's largest single-company training project at the University of Helsinki aimed to create a sounder production base for the Asko Company by developing the skills, creativity, and attitudes of all 2,000 employees. The project was conceived as an alternative to drastic employee layoffs. (MSE)
Descriptors: College Administration, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Industrial Training

Connor, John J. – Performance Improvement, 2001
Explains how the existing workforce in Kazakhstan's oil industry is being upgraded in skills, knowledge, and competencies to bring them up to the standards of the West. Discusses the design phase, including career development plans, training plans, and business plans; job ladders and specifications; assessing skill levels; and an…
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Ladders, Foreign Countries, Labor Force Development
Eves, James H., Jr. – Personnel, 1985
The author explains how one company managed a shutdown while avoiding difficult problems. He describes a five-action plan that focused on all the following areas: severance and benefits, communication, training and development, job opportunities, and retirement planning. This plan is then evaluated and recommendations to improve the plan are…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Dislocated Workers, Employee Attitudes, Employment Opportunities
Senior, Barbara – Adult Education (London), 1984
The author examines the present educational provision for unemployed adults, in the light of its relevance to their needs, and draws attention to the Open University's (Great Britain) work in this field. The author also discusses the effects of unemployment and assumptions about unemployment. (CT)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Basic Skills, Creativity, Dislocated Workers
Rielley, Michael J.; And Others – VocEd, 1983
Five community responses to unemployment are described: (1) retraining for California auto workers; (2) upgrading and retraining at Indian Meridian Vo-Tech, Oklahoma; (3) Greater Lowell Regional Vocational Technical School's high-tech training program; (4) metropolitan reemployment project, St Louis, Missouri; and (5) Trade Readjustment Act…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Community Colleges, Local Government, Outreach Programs
Theodossin, Ernest – 1984
The most striking general features of the Danish education system are these: a high degree of centralization, learner-centeredness, open access, precisely defined conditions of service for teachers, and virtually non-existent training for educational managers. Education is compulsory for children between the ages of 7 and 16 years. Optional…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Apprenticeships, Dislocated Workers, Foreign Countries
National Alliance of Business, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1987
This collection of 16 case studies is intended to illustrate how the public and private sectors have managed to collaborate in helping workers adapt to changing employment circumstances. The case studies are grouped into three categories. The first six case studies are examples of programs that have been developed to assist in training for new…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Cooperative Planning, Cooperative Programs, Dislocated Workers
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