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Direct linkHolzer, Harry J. – Hamilton Project, 2021
Workforce development in the United States today is spread across higher education institutions (primarily public two-year and for-profit colleges), labor market institutions, and workplaces, with public funding from a range of sources. But outcomes for students and workers are weaker than they could be, especially among disadvantaged students and…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Labor Force Development, Postsecondary Education
Download full textNational Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2014
"Research Messages 2013" provides a summary of the research published in 2013 by the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) in the following broad categories: (1) skills and productivity: from VET qualifications to higher-level qualifications and issues affecting the workforce; (2) social inclusion and participation in…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Job Skills, Productivity, Educational Research
Cutshall, Sandy; Crockett, Lori L.; Armstrong, Robert – Techniques: Connecting Education and Careers, 2001
Includes "Welding Done Well" (Cutshall); "Opening Doors" (Cutshall); "Earning and Learning" (Cutshall); "New York's ELITE Schools" (Crockett); "Alexander High School's RVI [Related Vocational Instruction] Program: Focusing on Abilities" (Crockett); and "Perrysville's START Program Making a…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, High Schools, Higher Education, Information Technology
Noyelle, Thierry J. – 1984
This paper attempts to analyze the changing nature of work in today's economy and to investigate employment problems and mobility opportunities for disadvantaged workers. Principal dimensions of employment opportunities in the "old economy" of the 1950s and 1960s are highlighted, and the impact of the emergence of the "new…
Descriptors: Adults, Career Education, Computers, Economically Disadvantaged
Brandeis Univ., Waltham, MA. Center for Human Resources. – 1988
Various materials are provided from the Career Beginnings Program. This program is described as a nationally organized, privately supported, locally based program in which colleges, businesses, and the community work together to provide career support and direction for low income youth. An executive summary discusses how the program works by…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Career Education, Career Guidance, Career Planning
Keller, Patti J.; Reinmuth, Charles M. – 1982
Barriers to employment faced by economically disadvantaged persons and programs, and services that have successfully dealt with some of the problems are described, based on the American Council on Education's Higher Education/Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) Project, which was supported by the Fund for the Improvement of…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Case Studies, College Role, Cooperative Programs
Flynn, Marilyn L. – 1982
Advantages to employment and training agencies from linkages with higher education are reviewed as part of the American Council on Education's Higher Education/Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) Project, which was supported by the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education. The most significant benefits obtained by agencies…
Descriptors: College Role, Cooperative Programs, Economically Disadvantaged, Education Work Relationship
