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Chenoy, Dilip; Ghosh, Shobha Mishra; Shukla, Shiv Kumar – International Journal of Training Research, 2019
India is one of the fastest growing major economies and has a burgeoning young workforce. The average age in India will be 29 years by 2020. Given the limitations of absorbing growing labor force-- especially the unskilled and semi-skilled-- in service sector, focus has to be on spurring manufacturing growth to take advantage of this large pool of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Skill Development, Manufacturing Industry, Economic Development
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Johns, Susan; Kilpatrick, Sue; Loechel, Barton – International Journal of Training Research, 2004
This paper reports findings from a survey of former students from six Australian rural school clusters. It compares the experiences and outcomes of students who had participated in a school vocational education and training (VET) program with those who had not. School VET courses intended to provide a pathway to local employment appear to be…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Rural Areas, Foreign Countries, Vocational Education
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Abbott, Malcolm; Doucouliagos, Hristos – International Journal of Training Research, 2004
In New Zealand the most important institutions that are responsible for the delivery of vocational education and training programs are the government owned and operated tertiary education institutions known as polytechnics. The New Zealand polytechnics deliver programs at the certificate, diploma and degree level. During the course of the 1990s,…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Competition, Foreign Countries, Unit Costs