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Download full textChappell, Clive – 1999
Work-based learning (WBL) is one response of education and training institutions to criticisms they have failed to adapt to changing economic times and the changing nature of work. Formal educational institutions are challenged by the perception that they are inadequate to the task of preparing the present and future work force with the necessary…
Descriptors: Developed Nations, Discourse Communities, Educational Change, Educational Principles
Johnston, Robyn; Chappell, Clive – 2000
A survey was designed to assist in constructing a picture of new vocational education and training professionals working in organizational settings in Australia. They were practitioners whose positional titles included training and development (T&D), human resource development, or human resource practitioners who work within organizational…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Developed Nations, Educational Research, Emerging Occupations
Searle, Jean; Kelly, Ann – 2002
This report focuses on an investigation of assumptions and principles underpinning training and assessment programs offered by a civil construction company in Australia. Section 1 is an introduction. To conceptualize the new workplace and consider the role of literacy and numeracy in it, Section 2 addresses changing work conditions, features of a…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Case Studies, Competency Based Education
Chappell, Clive – 2000
The vocational education and training (VET) profession in Australia is confronted with a radical reconstruction, not only in terms of the new work VET professionals are expected to perform but also in terms of the new culture and professional roles that have emerged out of the diversifying sites of professional practice. Reasons for the shift in…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Developed Nations, Educational Change, Educational Trends
Carter, A.; Hirsh, W.; Aston, J. – 2002
A study explored current practice in organizing and resourcing training and development (T&D) using survey responses from over 100 major private and public sector employers and case studies of T&D functions in 6 organizations. Business drivers for T&D were senior management as customers; diagnosis of training as "the…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Adult Education, Corporate Education, Developed Nations
2002
This document contains three papers from a symposium on the future of human resource development (HRD) and trends in HRD. "Searching for the Future of Human Resource Development" (Wendy E.A. Ruona, Susan A. Lynham, Tom Chermack) reports on a survey of 55 HRD and HRD-related practitioners and academics that examined trends in the HRD…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Comparative Analysis, Competence, Developed Nations
Robinson, Chris – 2001
This report describes apprenticeship system development in Australia and provides a quantitative macro-level analysis of apprenticeship, traineeship, and new apprenticeship trends. Following an introduction (chapter 1), chapters 2-3 trace its European origins and establishment in colonial Australia, development and evolution through the twentieth…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Apprenticeships, Comparative Education
