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Disruption of Qualifications in Manufacturing: Challenges and Prospects
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Tutlys, Vidmantas; Spöttl, Georg – European Journal of Training and Development, 2022
Purpose: This paper aims to disclose the implications of the 4th Industrial Revolution for vocational and professional qualifications and their systems. It also seeks to enhance more active discussion of experts and researchers about the change of vocational and professional qualifications created by the advent of the 4th Industrial Revolution.…
Descriptors: Manufacturing Industry, Employment Qualifications, Job Skills, Metal Working
Language Policy and Linguistic Landscaping in a Contemporary Blue-Collar Workplace in the Dutch-German Borderland
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Hovens, Daan – Language Policy, 2021
This article argues that an expanded view of linguistic landscapes provides a useful metaphor for exploring language policies. Following this view, "language policy" is defined as "linguistic landscaping" (i.e., placing language policy mechanisms which, together with already placed mechanisms, construct a metaphorical…
Descriptors: Work Environment, Foreign Countries, Language Planning, Figurative Language
THE TRAINING OF SKILLED WORKERS, REPORT ON A SAMPLE INQUIRY INTO THE BACKGROUND, TRAINING AND PRESENT OCCUPATIONS OF SKILLED WORKERS IN THE MECHANICAL ENGINEERING INDUSTRY OF FOUR COUNTRIES.
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Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris (France). Manpower Div. – 1965
AN INTENSIVE STUDY OF TWO SAMPLES DRAWN FROM ONE GEOGRAPHIC AREA IN EACH OF FOUR COUNTRIES AIMED TO DETERMINE THE TRAINING AND JOB HISTORIES OF SKILLED WORKERS IN THE METAL TRADES AND THE RESULTS OBTAINED BY DIFFERENT TRAINING SYSTEMS. THE COUNTRIES WERE SELECTED TO REPRESENT (1) PREDOMINANTLY SCHOOL-BASED TRAINING (BELGIUM), (2) HIGHLY REGULATED…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Comparative Analysis, Educational Practices, Educational Strategies
Quality Management and Qualification Needs 1: Quality and Personnel Concepts of SMEs in Europe.
Koper, Johannes; Zaremba, Hans Jurgen – 2000
This book examines how quality management is implemented in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Germany, Finland, Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. It presents the survey results as two sector studies. Competitive and specialization tendencies of the sectors and company concepts of "quality" and…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Developed Nations, Food Processing Occupations, Foreign Countries
The Role of Craft Industry in Germany's Social Market Economy. Social Report.
Schroder, Karsten – IN Press, 1992
Social market economy success in the Federal Republic of Germany is due to free competition, enterprise in the business community, and employees' social security. Craft industries play a major role in Germany's market economy. The craft industry is second only to the manufacturing industry, comprising 23 percent of German firms. There are seven…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Building Trades, Craft Workers, Economic Change
Vocational Training in Germany: Modernisation and Responsiveness.
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris (France). – 1994
This volume presents a report on recent developments and current policy objectives in vocational education and training in Germany. The study is based on a conceptual and analytical framework jointly elaborated by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development Secretariat and representatives of member countries. Part I is "The…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Building Trades, Cooperative Education, Cooperative Programs