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Peer reviewedCaspar, M.-L. – International Labour Review, 1988
The author evaluates a program whereby the French government subsidized employers to organize training for youth under employment contracts. Youth with above average employment opportunties benefited. Failure to serve the most disadvantaged youth is attributed to (1) individual youth choices, (2) screening by program administrators, and (3)…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Entry Workers, Federal Aid, Foreign Countries
Download full textIsbell, Kellie; Trutko, John W.; Barnow, Burt S.; Nightengale, Demetra; Pindus, Nancy – 1997
A review of the literature on employer-based training (EBT) and case studies of 17 exemplary EBT programs (9 of which were Job Training Partnership Act [JTPA] programs) were used to determine best practices in EBT and make recommendations for effective strategies for implementing EBT programs. Some of these strategies included the following: (1)…
Descriptors: Adults, Basic Skills, Education Work Relationship, Educational Needs
McNelly, Don E.; And Others – 1991
Tennessee employers were surveyed regarding secondary vocational education as a source of entry-level employees and on their perceptions of issues in the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Act of 1990. A survey instrument secured ratings for various types and levels of educational and governmental agencies. The population consisted…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Educational Legislation, Educational Quality, Employer Attitudes
Herrnstadt, Irwin L.; And Others – 1979
Focusing on graduates of cooperative vocational programs at the high school level, a study described and analyzed the in-school and post-high school labor market experiences of 427 students enrolled in four different programs during their junior and senior years: cooperative vocational, regular vocational, work study, and general academic. The…
Descriptors: Cooperative Education, Education Work Relationship, Employment Potential, Entry Workers
Yakima Valley Opportunities Industrialization Center, WA. – 1998
This document consists of an evaluation report and a curriculum guide from a National Workplace Literacy project designed to demonstrate the process and effects of literacy classes held in work environments through the Yakima Valley (Washington) Opportunities Industrialization Center. The report notes the following results: (1) of 1,976 workers…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Cooperative Programs
MPR Associates, Berkeley, CA. – 2001
California's school-to-career (STC) efforts were examined in a statewide evaluation study that was initiated in December 2000 and scheduled for completion by June 2002. The study's first phase was assessed in an interim report that focused on the following major activities: (1) development of a white paper describing the STC's national and state…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Attitudes, Advisory Committees, Case Studies
McDonald, Rod; Corbiere, Kathy; Doyle, Leonie; Field, Claire; Johnson, Lesley; Johnston, Paula; Kerr, Ella; Roberts, Anita – 2000
Australia's system for helping youths make a successful transition from initial vocational education and training (VET) to working life was assessed through an analysis that focused on the following features that were identified by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) as contributing to successful transitions: learning…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Adjustment (to Environment), Apprenticeships, Articulation (Education)
