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Mining Aboriginal Labour: Examining Capital Reconversion Strategies Occurring on the Risk Management Field
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Hodgkins, Andrew P. – Journal of Education and Work, 2016
This article examines a vocational education and training partnership occurring in the Canadian oil sands mining industry. The case study involves a corporate-sponsored pre-apprenticeship training programme designed to procure aboriginal labour in the province of Alberta. Interviews with members of key partner groups and stakeholders occurred…
Descriptors: Risk Management, Vocational Education, Mining, Land Use
Drop Out Patterns in the East Los Angeles Community College
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Waktola, Daniel K. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2014
This study attempted to analyze the drop out problem from spatial perspectives within the context of East Los Angeles Community College, California. Selected urban land-use types, which positively and negatively influence the propensity to drop out or persist-in colleges, were selected and captured during a global positioning system (GPS)-based…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Dropout Characteristics, Land Use, Urban Environment
Preserving Old Ways the Modern Way: Red Crow Uses GIS, GPS to Document Traditional Knowledge
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Fat, Mary Weasel – Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, 2004
The article report that Red Crow Community College has created a unique, one-year certificate program that will train students to compile and document Kainai traditional knowledge. The program called the First Nations' Land Use Certificate Program accepted its first 16 students in January 2004 at the college, which is located on the Blood Reserve…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Land Use, Information Systems, Community Colleges