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Allshouse, Mary – American Vocational Journal, 1974
Skill training by way of individualized instruction is offered to adults by the learning centers established by the Arizona MDTA Skill Centers. (DS)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Individualized Instruction, Labor Force Development, Self Actualization
Verdile, Benjamin V. P.; Massimiano, Santo A. – School Shop, 1973
The Camden campus of Rutgers University, currently in its eighth year of operation, has provided numerous men and women from the community with employable skills. (Author/MU)
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Classroom Guidance Programs, Individualized Instruction, Job Training
Download full textOlympus Research Corp., Salt Lake City, UT. – 1971
Skills centers represent a fairly new and different component of national manpower policy. The 70 Manpower Development and Training Act (MDTA) Skills Centers are designed to provide comprehensive manpower services for the disadvantaged, including training, basic education, communication skills, counseling, placement, and follow-up. Based on visits…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Vocational Education, Career Counseling, Disadvantaged
Peer reviewedAdnett, N. J.; Tennant, A. – Journal of European Industrial Training, 1978
To relieve the increasing shortage of skilled workers in the United Kingdom, the government established boards to stimulate and regulate private industry's training efforts and also provided direct training services in Skillcentres (formerly Government Training Centres). The article describes the Skillcentres program, training objectives, program…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Federal Programs, Foreign Countries, Government Role
National Planning Association, Washington, DC. Center for Priority Analysis. – 1972
A study of duplications in public skill training programs in twenty American cities resulted in a two-volume report. Volume One (ED 068 706) summarized and drew conclusions from the individual city reports contained in Volume Two. "Skill training" is used to mean all programs whose major purpose is the imparting of marketable skills to…
Descriptors: Educational Programs, Efficiency, Entry Workers, Federal Aid
