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Angela Bate – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2024
The Labour Party's manifesto aims to reform further and higher education by integrating business, training providers and unions within a governmental effort to ensure a highly trained workforce. Skills England will align training with labour market needs, empower local leaders and enhance support for job seekers. However, the focus on young people…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Higher Education, Adult Education
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David A. Housel; Hannah Weinstock; Chandana Mahadeswaraswamy; Paula DaSilva Michelin – Adult Learning, 2024
Given changes in the 21st century workplace and expectations of employers, the notion that a bachelor's degree is the sole pathway to sustainable employment and a middle-class life in the United States has become obsolete. Many (e.g., Fleming, 2016) have argued that employers are now seeking employees with technical skills, digital literacy, and…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Employment Potential, Special Degree Programs, Credentials
Nayrie Smith – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Adult learners are returning to school to acquire and enhance workplace essential skills needed to meet changing job market expectations. Adequately preparing adult learners for the workforce necessitates understanding their views and experiences. The problem explored in this study was the lack of research regarding business school stakeholders'…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Job Skills, Adult Learning, Labor Force Development
Belk Center for Community College Leadership and Research, 2023
The North Carolina General Assembly allocated funding for the expansion of adult learner initiatives. The North Carolina Community College System (NCCCS) distributed $50,000 to each of the ten schools in FY 2022 which was from the John M. Belk Endowment (JMBE), other partners, and the state. The colleges were given until June 30, 2023 to spend the…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Adult Learning, Community Colleges, Partnerships in Education
Belk Center for Community College Leadership and Research, 2023
Recruiting in today's higher education landscape is not without challenges. Prospective students have options which means the market is saturated with advertisements and messages from postsecondary institutions of all types. And when you add the layer of recruiting students who are no longer in high school and often have competing demands, the…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Adult Learning, Community Colleges, Partnerships in Education
Belk Center for Community College Leadership and Research, 2023
In 2021, the John M. Belk Endowment (JMBE) launched NC Reconnect -- an initiative aimed at re-engaging adult learners in North Carolina. The goal of the program is to ensure adult learners across North Carolina have maximum opportunity to pursue a degree or credential at one of the state's 58 community colleges. Starting with five community…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Adult Learning, Community Colleges, Partnerships in Education
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Jacobs, Gloria E.; Castek, Jill; Harris, Kathy; Vanek, Jen – Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning, 2022
Purpose: This article reports on a critical race theory (CRT) analysis of the perspectives of providers of employer-supported educational opportunities and adult learners, who identified as Black, indigenous or as a person of color, and were employed in service industries. Design/methodology/approach: A review of the literature was used to shape…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Adult Learning, Student Attitudes, Workplace Learning
Belk Center for Community College Leadership and Research, 2022
NC Reconnect's goal is to ensure adult learners across North Carolina have maximum opportunity to pursue training at one of the state's 58 community colleges. NC Reconnect consists of two outreach components, re-engage adult students who previously earned some college credit but left without a credential, and deliver targeted communication to…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Adult Learning, Community Colleges, Partnerships in Education
Keep, Ewart – Centre on Skills, Knowledge and Organisational Performance (SKOPE), 2019
This article explores the efficacy and cost effectiveness of New Labour's skills-based policies to help low paid workers adjust to the pressures generated by globalisation, of which the leading example was Train to Gain (T2G). It also analyses the more general issue of how, why and under what circumstances education, training and skills can help…
Descriptors: Empowerment, Job Skills, Program Effectiveness, Cost Effectiveness
Shands, Mike – ProQuest LLC, 2014
"Do senior level construction leaders possess a common set of leadership development needs that can be addressed to better prepare them to lead and retain the Millennial workforce?" As older generations begin to retire in-mass, many organizations are reevaluating their approach to employee recruitment, performance, and retention. This…
Descriptors: Construction Industry, Construction Management, Leadership Training, Labor Force Development
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Shanmugham, M.; Kishore, S. – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2012
The Open and Distance Learning (ODL) has come to stay as an alternative mode to meet the higher educational requirements of diverse groups. Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), a system leader in India, plays a major role in giving access and equity, besides maintaining and coordinating standards of distance education in the country.…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Adult Learning, Nontraditional Students, Open Universities
Floyd, Tuboise D. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This exploratory study examines the adult educational philosophies and teaching styles of workforce educators and entrepreneurship instructors within the State of Georgia. A workforce educator is an educator teaching workforce skills; an entrepreneurship instructor is an educator who teaches entrepreneurship skills. Conti's Principles of Adult…
Descriptors: Teaching Styles, Teacher Characteristics, Educational Philosophy, Reliability
Lord, Joan M.; Blackmon, Trudy; Chaloux, Bruce; Weaver, Chris; Street, Sue – Southern Regional Education Board (SREB), 2010
This report, part of the "Challenge to Lead" education goals series, examines the impact of an undereducated work force and calls for making adult learning programs a priority across the SREB (Southern Regional Education Board) region especially during the current recession. "A Smart Move" tracks declining enrollment in adult…
Descriptors: Declining Enrollment, Adult Learning, English (Second Language), Investment
Wang, Victor C. X., Ed. – Information Science Reference, 2010
In this information age, career and technical education (CTE) has become a multibillion dollar training enterprise. To make the students more competitive in the labor force and to make the nation economically strong and firms internationally competitive, everyone has to depend on CTE to train today's workers of various kinds. This book brings…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Educational Technology, Training Methods, Vocational Education
Spear, Richard – Adults Learning, 2008
For the last year, an independent panel chaired by Sir Adrian Webb has been evaluating the role of the further education (FE) sector in the delivery of education, lifelong learning, and skills in Wales. The challenges facing the panel were considerable and its remit broader than that of the Foster review in England. In response, the final report…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Economic Development, Adult Education, Lifelong Learning
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