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Iowa Department of Education, 2015
The Department of Education, Division of Community Colleges, will annually provide the State Board of Education with The Workforce Training and Economic Development (WTED) Fund Annual Progress Report. Administration and oversight responsibility for the fund was transferred from the Iowa Economic Development Authority to the Iowa Department of…
Descriptors: Labor Force Development, Economic Development, Annual Reports, Community Colleges
Cedefop - European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training, 2013
Qualifications are commonly seen as one of the core instruments for governing and regulating the labour market. Linked to access to occupations and professions, qualifications define what a person needs to know and be able to do to carry out a certain activity on the labour market. Various factors, from health and safety to consumer protection and…
Descriptors: Employment Qualifications, Labor Market, Job Skills, Foreign Countries
McCord, Robert S.; Ellerson, Noelle M.; Jordan, K. Forbis; Jordan, Teresa; Lemons, Richard; Mattocks, T. C.; Melver, Toby; Orr, Margaret – American Association of School Administrators, 2008
In Fall 2008, in response to the recent economic downturn, as evidenced in state budget shortfalls, federal buy-outs and interventions, and a series of additional events characterizing a slowing, stagnant economy, AASA examined the impact on school districts across the nation. While there are regional differences, the findings of AASA's…
Descriptors: Budgets, Educational Finance, School Districts, Economic Climate
Tuck, Bradford H.; Berman, Matthew; Hill, Alexandra – Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of Alaska Anchorage, 2005
The Legislative Budget and Audit Committee of the Alaska Legislature has asked The Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER) at the University of Alaska Anchorage to make certain changes and adjustments to the Geographic Cost of Education Index (GCEI) that the American Institutes for Research (AIR) constructed and reported on in Alaska…
Descriptors: Economic Research, School Districts, Energy, Costs
Finn, Michael G.; And Others – 1979
Presented are data on university researchers engaged in fossil fuel studies funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). This information relates to research personnel whose projects were active during 1977 and/or 1978. Frequency and percentage tabulations delineate person-months of graduate student, faculty, and staff research inputs by…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Energy, Financial Support, Graduate Students
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Pilatou, Vassiliki; Stavridou, Heleni – International Journal of Science Education, 2004
The aim of this study was to detect primary students' conceptions about the origin and conveyance of electric current and about the connection of household electric appliances. In total, 383 students (aged 11-12) from the town of Volos, Greece, participated; 213 of them drawn from experimental classes and 170 from control groups. The results…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Electronic Equipment, Science Instruction
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris (France). – 1991
This document provides a preliminary set of environmental indicators by which to measure environmental performance. The indicators are patterned on the outline of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) "Report on the State of the Environment," a companion volume published in the same year. This volume is…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Developed Nations, Developing Nations, Ecology