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Low, Mary; Botes, Vida; Rue, David Dela; Allen, Jackie – e-Journal of Business Education and Scholarship of Teaching, 2016
This research examined what accounting employers are seeking in their "ideal" accounting graduate and sought to provide clarification on the "expectation gap" between what accounting employers require in their graduates, and the skills these graduates are exhibiting. Adopting a qualitative research method, this research paper…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Accounting, Employer Attitudes, Employment Qualifications
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Mullin, Teresa – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2013
There is an assumption that e-learning is considered as a valued resource with great potential. This research explores how hairdressing apprentices experience vocational e-learning and makes recommendations on how good practice can be shared. An estimated 35,000 hairdressing and barber salons account for a quarter of a million UK workers and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning, Cosmetology, Apprenticeships
Thurber, John C. – 1978
This study explores the feasibility of utilizing school-focused staff development programs in promoting international cooperation through transferability and/or adaptation of relevant aspects of this type of inservice education by foreign countries. The objective of this presentation is to develop interest in ways in which teachers in various…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Foreign Countries, Improvement Programs, Inservice Teacher Education
Riehl, Wolfgang – Western European Education, 1990
Presents an approach to making practical on-the-job work experience of secondary school students part of instruction in social studies. Maintains that social studies classes can serve as a vehicle for students to gain social learning from their work experiences. Includes tables outlining the conceptual framework of this approach. (DB)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Education Work Relationship, Experiential Learning, Foreign Countries
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Jallade, Jean-Pierre – European Journal of Education, 1989
A review of vocational education trends in Western Europe and Japan covers the following: curriculum and program structure, alternatives, cooperative education, on-the-job training, enrollments, admission, curriculum content, skills other than strictly occupational, mechanisms for curriculum development, and efficiency of training. (MSE)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Comparative Education, Cooperative Education, Curriculum Development
Chang, Ping-Tung; Tsui, George Chien-Chi – 1984
The Taiwan Provincial Institute for Elementary School Teachers Inservice Education (IETISE) provides teachers with a place to improve their teaching skills and use new materials. Concentrating on the field of mathematics, a "seed team" training program for elementary school teachers uses the concept of peer training by offering intensive…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers, Foreign Countries
Further Education Unit, London (England). – 1988
A curriculum development project began with a market survey to investigate the demand for training in quality assurance (QA). The project objective was to develop a final study program that would cater to a broad range of employees, from operative to senior management; enable employees to appreciate their potential role within a QA system; and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Vocational Education, Corporate Education, Curriculum Development
Hager, Paul; McIntyre, John; Moy, Janelle; Comyn, Paul; Stone, Jacqui; Schwenke, Cristina; Gonczi, Andrew – 1996
A project investigated the integration of key competencies into workplace training in Australia. Part 1 of the project researched the work of personnel engaged in on-the-job training (OJT) curriculum development in five industries to find out how key competencies were being incorporated into OJT curricula and to suggest models to guide this…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Basic Skills, Case Studies, Competence
Culanculan-Tupas, Liberty – 1996
Linking employers with educational institutions in order to improve education and educate students who can do jobs is important in the Philippines. Program linkages include the following: (1) industry involvement in policy formation through employer groups on education boards; (2) regional and provincial education boards having private industry…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Cooperative Programs, Curriculum Development, Education Work Relationship
Welton, Michael – 1991
This publication is part of the study materials for the distance education course, The Changing Workplace: Part B, in the Open Campus Program at Deakin University. The first part of the document constructs a framework for exploring the concept of the workplace as a learning environment that is in fact the primary school for adult learning and…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Annotated Bibliographies
McBeath, Clare; Nicholson, Lindsay – 2001
The research methods selected for an evaluation of courses in vocational education and training (VET) teacher education at Curtin University (Western Australia) were examined. The university hired an outside research body from a different TAFE college to conduct the evaluation because Curtin University's courses in postschool teacher education,…
Descriptors: Course Content, Curriculum Development, Delivery Systems, Developed Nations
Johnston, Wendy – 1998
This annotated bibliography, which was developed for workplace program developers and practitioners, policy planners, researchers, and others interested in workplace education, lists 182 documents devoted to the workplace education field in Canada. Annotations are provided for 68 documents. The remaining 114 are listed as further readings.…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Annotated Bibliographies
Further Education Unit, London (England). – 1985
This guide is intended to assist those responsible for supporting and evaluating a Youth Training Scheme (YTS) program in Great Britain. The first section contains an overview of the objectives and design of YTS. Addressed for the Certificate of Prevocational Education, a sample work learning guide (planned work experience and on-the-job training,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Check Lists, College Programs, Core Curriculum
Parkes, David, Ed.; Gronwald, Detlef; Grootings, Peter; Nielsen, Soren – 1998
Curriculum reform in vocational education and training (VET) in Central and Eastern Europe was examined through case studies of VET in 10 countries: Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovak Republic, and Slovenia. Special attention was paid to the following: each country's VET system; curriculum…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Case Studies, Comparative Analysis, Curriculum Development