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Download full textAustralian National Training Authority, Brisbane. – 1997
These three separate reports detail current and anticipated directions of vocational education and training (VET) in Australia in 1996, 1997, and 1998, respectively, and the Australian National Training Authority's recommendations regarding resource allocations for each of the 3 years. Each report examines some or all of the following: VET's…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Educational Objectives, Educational Planning, Educational Policy
Anzalone, Stephen J.; McLaughlin, Stephen D. – 1983
The marked decline in international interest in promoting adult literacy that has occurred over the last decade has had serious consequences for literacy education in third world countries. In general, planning and implementation of literacy instruction in these areas has neither improved nor adapted itself to changing circumstances. While the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Case Studies
Doucette, Don – 1993
Designed to provide information on the current state of workforce training at the nation's community colleges, this two-part report summarizes results from a national survey of two-year college workforce training programs and documents the growing economic and educational importance of such programs. The first section discusses a fall 1991 survey…
Descriptors: College Role, Community Colleges, Economic Development, Educational Finance
Lerman, Robert I.; Pouncy, Hillard – 1990
Developing a youth apprenticeship in the United States would boost productivity, improve the preparation of youths for the skill demands of a global economy, and simultaneously offer minority youth an avenue into the economic mainstream. Germany's "dual system" of youth apprenticeship could be adopted to form a national skill-building…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Community Colleges, Education Work Relationship, Educational Benefits
Brennan, Mark; Brennan, Roslin E. – 1984
A study examined the literacy needs and activities of prison inmates in Australia. To gather data for the study, the researchers interviewed and administered questionnaires to 62 inmates from five Australian prisons. This report consists primarily of the comments and views of the individual prisoners who were clients, potential clients, and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Correctional Education, Correctional Rehabilitation
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1981
This first part of the congressional hearings held in Washington, D.C., in February 1981, to reauthorize the Vocational Education Act of 1963 contains 16 pieces of testimony about vocational education programs in different institutional settings. Individuals giving testimony include representatives of the following institutions: Des Moines…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Educational Needs, Educational Policy, Educational Practices
Congress of the U. S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Government Operations. – 1981
These congressional hearings contain testimony pertaining to the continuation of funding for the Young Adult Conservation Corps (YACC) and the Youth Conservation Corps (YCC). (Modeled after the Civilian Conservation Corps, the YACC and the YCC are youth conservation programs that provide jobs to youth in such areas as tree planting, trail…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Adolescents, Conservation Education, Conservation (Environment)
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Subcommittee on Labor and Human Resources. – 1981
This congressional hearing contains testimony given in Montpelier, Vermont, at the first of a series of nationwide hearings on vocational education. Focus of this particular hearing is on the specific needs of Vermont as a rural northeastern state to train a workforce that is talented enough to help retrain existing businesses and industry and…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Educational Legislation, Educational Needs, Educational Objectives
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. – 1983
This document contains the testimony and supporting printed evidence presented at an oversight hearing on the reauthorization of the Vocational Education Act. These hearings focused on various aspects of vocational education, including vocational education research, cooperative or worksite education, and vocational education in correctional…
Descriptors: Cooperative Education, Correctional Education, Educational Benefits, Educational Legislation
Hoyt, Kenneth B. – 1980
Intended to chronicle the still-emerging concept of career education, this monograph contains 10 papers prepared during the 1979-80 academic year. In the first paper career education is discussed in terms of its role in developing employability/adaptability/promotability skills. The strong emphasis in 1979-80 on making career education a community…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Career Education, Change Strategies, Community Colleges
Public/Private Ventures, Philadelphia, PA. – 1999
Surging demand for workers, growing income inequality, and passage of welfare reforms have made work force development one of the United States' key national concerns. Public/Private Ventures has been working with various states to design work force development strategies that seek to address the concerns of many work force development specialists…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Case Studies, Colleges, Community Colleges
Friedman, Pamela – Issue Notes, 2000
The new emphasis on welfare reform, self-reliance, and individual accountability and the new time limits imposed by the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program have resulted in large numbers of people between the ages of 18 and 24 entering the work force. The three main career options for youth in transition from school to work are…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Career Education, Counseling Services, Drug Abuse
