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Sanyal, Bikas C. – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Education, 1973
The author writes in favor of gearing educational systems to long-term manpower requirements as he responds to Professor Mark Blaug's article ("Prospects" v2, n4, Winter 1973) which advocates cost-benefit analysis as a tool for educational planning. (JH)
Descriptors: Accountability, Cost Effectiveness, Developing Nations, Educational Planning
Grinold, Richard C. – 1973
The paper examines a longitudinal model of a manpower system in which the demands for effective manpower are determined by the state of a finite Markov chain, and there are delays in training an adequate supply of effective manpower. An operational method of calculating optimal appointment policies is presented. This calculation can in turn be…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Labor Force Development, Labor Needs, Labor Utilization
Blaug, Mark – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Education, 1973
The author responds to Mr. Sanyal's comments which preceed his and which are addressed to the author's article ("Prospects," v2, n4, Winter 72) by discussing the issues of over-expansion of higher education in developing countries and the usefulness of manpower-forecasting in educational planning. (JH)
Descriptors: Accountability, Cost Effectiveness, Developing Nations, Educational Planning
Woodhall, Maureen – 1974
If education is a form of investment, how much does it contribute to economic growth compared with other forms of investment? The first approach to answering this question was the correlation approach. But although simple correlation studies show a relationship between education and economic progress, they do not prove cause and effect. The…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Economic Development, Educational Demand, Educational Economics
Harman, W. G. – 1968
The three main approaches to educational planning are social demand, manpower forecasting, and cost benefit. The social demand approach, useful only for reference purposes, attempts to forecast and assess consumer demand for education. Manpower forecasting tries to insure an output of the educational system to meet future economic demands, but…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Decision Making, Educational Demand, Educational Economics
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Smith, Chris Selby – Australian Journal of Career Development, 2002
Reviews research on the current status of skill requirements in Australian industries, industry demand for vocational education and training, ways in which enterprises perceive training (cost or investment), and vocational education in secondary schools. Derives implications for career development, including increased demand for flexibility and…
Descriptors: Career Development, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Economics, Foreign Countries
Turner, Barry T. – 1969
This document outlines the need for manpower training and discusses the components of adequate training as provided by the Industrial Training Act of March, 1964, in order to set guidelines and standards for industries involved in the training revolution in England. Besides training and what it entails, the document presents the philosophy of…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Educational Needs, Evaluation, Industrial Training
Mangum, Garth L. – 1967
As a part of a larger project under grant from the Ford Foundation to evaluate federal manpower policies and programs, this evaluation of the training efforts under Title II of the Manpower Development and Training Act (MDTA) made use of data provided by the Departments of Labor and Health, Education, and Welfare. By the end of fiscal 1967, 1.2…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Cost Effectiveness, Disadvantaged, Employment Programs
Scott, Robert E.; And Others – 1973
Part 2 of a two-part report describes nine supplemental studies used to test K-MUST, the Kansas Manpower Utilization System for Training. For each study, an introduction, background information, procedures, analysis, and conclusions and recommendations are provided. The studies are: (1) a comparison of Federal matrix manpower needs projections and…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Cost Effectiveness, Decision Making, Disabilities
Geddes, John A. – 1975
In spring 1975, a Task Force of 35 members was established as an advisory committee and idea generation group for the San Diego Community College District. At each of three meetings, the 35 members divided into five work groups led by a vocational coordinator discussion leader. This description of and master plan for the San Diego Community…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, College Planning, Community Colleges, Cost Effectiveness
Muth, Edmund H. – 1974
The Law Offender's Planning Task Force of the Governor's Advisory Council on Manpower was established to develop a comprehensive manpower services plan for law offenders in Illinois. The report discusses what is needed in effective criminal justice manpower services and the problems peculiar to delivery of manpower services within the constraints…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Career Development, Coordination, Correctional Education
Young, Robert C. – 1972
To better plan and evaluate vocational education programs at the state level, a mathematical formula was evolved for allocating resources to local education agencies (LEA's) which would reflect: (1) manpower needs, (2) vocational education needs, (3) relative ability to pay, and (4) excess costs. A "curricular priority matrix" and a…
Descriptors: Career Development, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Finance, Educational Needs
Employment and Training Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1979
To assess the feasibility of large-scale, countercyclical public job creation, a study was initiated. Job creation program activities were examined in terms of how many activities could be undertaken; what would be their costs; and what would be their characteristics (labor-intensity, skill-mix, and political acceptability) that might contribute…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Community Programs, Cost Effectiveness, Employment Opportunities
Southern Regional Education Board, Atlanta, GA. – 1974
To assist mental health agency leaders and others concerned with state mental health manpower development, these guidelines (presented in ten sections) explore various issues and approaches and indications for using one approach over another. The first three sections focus on designing and conducting manpower studies, making long range projections…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Ladders, Certification, Cost Effectiveness
Department of Labor, Washington, DC. – 1969
The seventh annual manpower report is presented in three parts: The Employment Record, Manpower Policy and Programs, and Manpower Research and Experimentation. Discussion of the employment record addresses employment developments and their economic background, patterns of employment growth, unemployment and underemployment, developments in the…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Coordination, Cost Effectiveness, Demonstration Programs
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