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Harvey, Edward B.; McShane, Steven L. – Interchange on Educational Policy, 1980
The Canadian educational system has tended to reinforce the idea that white-collar jobs are more desirable than blue-collar jobs. A study examined various organizational factors which have implications for industrial training, and indicated that the benefits of industrial training and employment in the skilled trades should be more widely…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Education Work Relationship, Educational Research, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedField, David; And Others – Tech Directions, 1992
Includes four articles: "Career Aspirations" (Field); "Making the Transition to a New Curriculum" (Baker, Householder); "How about a 'Work to School' Transition?" (Glasberg); and "Technological Improvisation: Bringing CNC to Woodworking" (Charles, McDuffie). (SK)
Descriptors: College Credits, Community Colleges, Curriculum Development, Education Work Relationship
Gordon, Howard R. D. – 1999
This book traces the history and growth of vocational education (VE) in the United States. The following are among the topics discussed in the book's nine chapters: early beginnings of VE in the United States (European influence, apprenticeship, industrial revolution, manual training movement); leaders influencing vocational curriculum development…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Curriculum Development, Disabilities, Education Work Relationship
Download full textHughes, Maria; MacPherson, Sally – 2001
The extent to which providers of post-16 vocational education and training (VET) in the United Kingdom are able to secure timely and relevant learning programs to meet sudden and unpredicted changes in local or national skills profiles was examined in a study that included interviews of nine private training providers and 11 further education (FE)…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Case Studies, Check Lists, College Role
Lorain County Community Coll., Elyria, OH. Joint Center for Policy Research. – 2001
This document is intended to inform and advise the development and operation of campuswide information technology (IT) education and training programs at two-year colleges belonging to the EnterpriseOhio Network (EON). The report is based on information from the following sources: a comprehensive national literature review; an environmental scan…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Associate Degrees, Bachelors Degrees, Basic Skills
2000
This document contains 18 papers from the human resource development and manpower training section of an international conference on vocational education and training (VET) for lifelong learning in the information era. The following papers are included: "Use of Social and Economic Modeling to Plan Vocational Education and Training"…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Career Education, Competency Based Education, Computer Uses in Education
