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Martin, Amy – Garbage: The Practical Journal for the Environment, 1992
This career guide for positions in the environmental field is directed at high school students, college students, and aspiring professionals. Includes suggestions for college study, descriptions of college programs, pertinent guides, directories, magazines, work opportunity listings, and professional organizations. (MCO)
Descriptors: Career Development, Emerging Occupations, Employment Opportunities, Environmental Education
Gapper, John – EQW Issues, 1992
Predictions of occupational growth to the year 2000 show how important the "new crafts" are becoming. Workers who possess the new crafts perform jobs that often involve sophisticated technical knowledge but are not done by people with bachelor's degrees. The growth of technical jobs in the middle of organizations threatens the familiar division…
Descriptors: Career Change, Educational Change, Emerging Occupations, Employment Practices
Nilsen, Sigurd R. – 2001
A study identified United States Department of Labor efforts to expand apprenticeship to new occupations and explained impediments to establishing apprenticeship programs in fields not traditionally apprenticed (e.g., high technology and biotechnology). Labor had not systematically identified new occupations suitable for apprenticeship programs…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Cooperative Programs, Coordination, Education Work Relationship
Loos, Roland – 2000
This report provides specialist information and application-oriented recommendations to implement innovative environmental vocational education and training (VET) measures and practices. Chapter 1 explains study method and structure. Chapter 2 provides an overview of the current state of environmental VET in Austria, Denmark, Finland, Germany,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Case Studies, Developed Nations, Educational Innovation
Ramsey, Terry; And Others – 1996
This report presents a process for identifying emerging and significantly evolving occupations within key Texas industries. It explains findings of a research project that provided a current information resource to help job seekers make informed career and training choices. Chapter 1 is an introduction. Chapter 2 examines the projected mismatch…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Change, Career Education, Electricity
Imel, Susan – 1990
The most significant factors affecting the labor market during the 1980s were the United States' loss of competitiveness in the world marketplace, continued shifts in production from goods to services, changes in the skill requirements of many jobs, and demographic shifts in the population. During the next decade, incompatibility between the type…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Articulation (Education), Basic Skills, Career Education