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Download full textFreeman, Andrew R. – 1981
A key part of a broad-based approach to career education in Australian schools is vocational/career guidance. Various vocational guidance programs have been developed for specific groups in Australian society, including work experience, caravans, and micrographics technology for the handicapped; pre-employment courses and a family education center…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Career Education, Career Guidance, Disabilities
Peer reviewedPsacharopoulos, George – International Labour Review, 1984
This essay deals with a series of methodological issues involved in assessing training priorities in developing countries. It is argued that the present methods of arriving at these priorities leave much to be desired, and a number of suggestions are made that might lead to more informed policy decisions on education and training. (CT)
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Educational Finance, Educational Quality, Elementary Secondary Education
National Advisory Council on Vocational Education, Washington, DC. – 1981
The National Council on Vocational Education believes that the new Vocational Education Act should focus on the development of the human capital that is essential to any efforts to revitalize our nation's productivity. This will require program improvement for training and retraining in new high-technology occupations, access to programs by…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Correctional Education, Demand Occupations, Disabilities
Arthur, Patricia, Comp.; Budke, Wesley E., Comp. – 1980
This annual report contains resumes of research projects, exemplary and innovative projects, and curriculum development projects. Projects were administered by state departments of education through research coordinating units (RCUs) in fiscal year 1978 and funded under sections 131, 132, and 133 of the Vocational Education Act of 1963 as revised…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Curriculum Development, Demonstration Programs, Developmental Programs
Pinellas County District School Board, Clearwater, FL. – 1976
This career education project achieved four goals; to (1) identify roles and functions for persons responsible for local school programs; (2) determine personnel performance competencies; (3) develop methods to bring personnel to operational confidence levels; and (4) establish a career education personnel training center. The center, which served…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Attitude Change, Career Education, Competency Based Teacher Education
Education Commission of the States, Denver, CO. – 1988
After the year 2000 one-third of the American population will be members of minority groups; neglecting minorities will have disastrous effects on the nation. The United States has made some progress in improving the lives of minorities, but America is presently moving backward--not forward--in its efforts to achieve the full participation of…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Blacks, College Role, Community Role
