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Download full textFrost, Sally Joy – 1996
The Adult Basic Education Program at Umgeni Water, a water authority in South Africa, is a workplace literacy program that seeks to impart skills within the workplace that can be used in community development, benefiting both the business and community involved. From a pilot project in 1989, the adult education program at Umgeni Water has grown…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Community Development, Corporate Education
Watt, David M.; Jones, Paul – 1993
Any proposal for training has to satisfy two major components: it must be job relevant and be accomplished without major interruption of work schedules, while incorporating strategies to help eliminate absenteeism. One recently developed model for basic skills training, the Immersion Instructional Model, meets these criteria and provides…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Employee Absenteeism
Stein, Sondra G. – 1991
The U.S. workplace needs to be transformed. Corporations should replace an approach to production and service that pits labor against management with an approach that unites management and labor in the pursuit of enhanced quality, enhanced responsiveness to the customer, and enhanced productivity. Human resource development is critical to this…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Education Work Relationship
Askov, Eunice N.; Brown, Emory J. – 1990
A Pennsylvania project to improve the reading skills of commercial drivers and to help them pass the required federal Commercial Driver's License (CDL) written examination was evaluated at five pilot sites. The project used ROAD (Real Opportunities for Advancement and Development) to Success, a basic skills course of interactive computer…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Certification, Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Instruction
Lessard, Richard – 1995
For the past 4 years, Alpena Community College, in Michigan, has participated in the Workplace Partnership Project (WPP), a federally funded grant program designed to provide literacy skills to individuals currently employed but lacking the background to keep pace with the changes of the modern workplace. The process for establishing classes at a…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Industrial Training, Job Skills, Labor Force Development
Office of Vocational and Adult Education (ED), Washington, DC. Adult Learning and Literacy Clearinghouse. – 1996
Compiled from information contained in the Program Year 1994-95 Annual Narrative Performance Reports submitted by states to the U.S. Department of Education, this paper shares selected information on recent developments in workplace education programs for adults. Section 1 describes programs that exhibited strong partnerships and collaboration in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills
DeBerg, Curtis L.; Thornton, Kelby – 1999
An innovative entrepreneurship education program was developed and delivered during summer 1998. The program was conceived by the youth program coordinator of the Butte County, California, Private Industry Council (PIC), who had been impressed by the results of a program during which the PIC hired three students from the California State…
Descriptors: Business Education, College School Cooperation, College Students, Computer Literacy
