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Download full textShivoro, Romanus; Shalyefu, Rakel Kavena; Kadhila, Ngepathimo – Journal of Teaching and Learning for Graduate Employability, 2017
Recognising implicit employability attributes within discipline-specific program modules is a critical part of the process of developing new employability modules in the management sciences curricula. The notion of graduate employability has gained acceptance in the higher education sector across the world and furthermore higher education and…
Descriptors: Management Development, Employment Potential, Curriculum Development, Foreign Countries
Philadelphia Youth Network, 2009
WorkReady programs offer young Philadelphians not only their first job, but skills for success. Young people who work during high school often master valuable skills that can help them do better in high school and college; learn new things that open their eyes to career possibilities; and earn more money later in life. When young people learn how…
Descriptors: Academic Support Services, Employment Opportunities, Work Experience, Service Learning
Redfield, Verlene – Research and Curriculum Unit, 2010
As the world economy continues to evolve, businesses and industries must adopt new practices and processes in order to survive. Quality and cost control, work teams and participatory management, and an infusion of technology are transforming the way people work and do business. Employees are now expected to read, write, and communicate…
Descriptors: Consumer Science, Competency Based Education, Clothing, Vocational Education
Peer reviewedCacich, Jane C.; Dosch, Thomas G. – Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, 1983
A summer work experience program for 10th and 11th graders with visual impairments includes a three-week residential-living experience in which students are evaluated in the areas of daily living, orientation and mobility, socialization, vocational abilities, and career planning and a six-week segment in which students work at paid jobs.…
Descriptors: High Schools, Job Skills, Program Descriptions, Residential Programs
Fredericks, H. D. Bud; And Others – 1985
A high school program to prepare severely handicapped students for supported community work changed its original purpose, to develop jobs that would provide full time support work in the community after graduation, to include part-time possibilities. Advantages of incorporating part-time work include eliminating boredom and providing greater…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, High Schools, Job Skills, On the Job Training
Maples, Wayne; And Others – 1980
The report evaluates Texas' Multiple Careers Magnet Center (MCMC), a part time program to provide special education secondary students with career training. It is explained that students enter one of six career education clusters: furniture repair and upholstery, general construction trades, building and grounds maintenance, laundry and dry…
Descriptors: Construction Industry, Demography, Disabilities, Homemaking Skills
Loeb, Helen M. – 1982
Northeastern University (Boston) offers an internship program to train technical writers for the computer industry. The program is designed for 20 individuals with bachelor's degrees and writing experience. Students attend classes at night, taking one computer science course and one graduate level writing course per academic quarter. The computer…
Descriptors: Evening Programs, Higher Education, Internship Programs, Job Skills
Smith, Blanche G. – Career Education Digest, 1974
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Career Choice, Career Education, Cooperative Education
Pooley, Richard C. – 1980
The activities of the first 6 months of a project designed to help 27 emotionally disturbed and learning disabled adolescent boys (ages 14 to 16) overcome the handicapping conditions which render them unemployable are reported. Successful aspects of the program were the career education, community based career development, and volunteer work…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Career Education, Career Exploration, Dropouts
Peer reviewedBair, Jonathan M.; Pollock, John K. – American Water Works Association Journal, 1979
Discusses an experimental program to help solve the problems of securing and training new technicians for wastewater treatment facilities. (CS)
Descriptors: Career Education, Community Action, Environmental Technicians, Job Skills
Rudolph, Jean – Career Education Digest, 1974
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Career Choice, Career Education, Job Skills
Sequoia Union High School District, Redwood City, CA. – 1984
THE FOLLOWING IS THE FULL TEXT OF THIS DOCUMENT: The Peninsula Academies program helps educationally disadvantaged youth overcome the handicaps of low academic achievement, lack of skills, and chronic unemployment. This is accomplished by providing a high school curriculum that is clearly related to work, training in specific job skills, emphasis…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged Youth, Educationally Disadvantaged
McClure-Lundberg Associates, Washington, DC. – 1978
This booklet describes various aspects of the Skill Training Improvement Program (STIP) in Washington, Minnesota, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and California. Information concerning the funding, administration, coordination, specific activities developed, and effectiveness of the STIP program in each of the five States is provided. Also taken into…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Coordination, Educational Programs, Employers
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs. – 1983
The subject of this hearing was the partnership between the District of Columbia's public schools and several private companies. This partnership resulted in the establishment of a school curriculum giving high school students exposure to specific career training and also orientation to the workplace. The training was in the fields of…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Career Development, Career Education, Employment Opportunities
Oak Ridge Associated Universities, TN. Manpower Development Div. – 1975
The Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) of Tennessee and the Nuclear Division of the Union Carbide Corporation established an industrial training program called Training and Technology (TAT) which was conducted at the Oak Ridge Y-12 plant. TAT instructors were provided by the regular work force of Union Carbide while ORAU provided the…
Descriptors: Educational Programs, Electrical Occupations, Industrial Education, Industrial Training
