This manual provides guidelines for developing and implementing employee educational programs with the cooperation of unions and management. It establishes the need for such programs by explaining the current and future demographics of the workplace, then suggests ways to determine the need for education in any particular company. Information…

The most successful district inservice programs are developed by a committee representing each group that is to receive the training and by the institutions which are capable of providing it. Since colleges and universities will be called upon to provide some of the services, they should become involved in the initial planning and designing of the…

The results of a nationwide survey of accredited institutions investigating opinions about accreditation and interagency cooperation and about accrediting activities in the institutions surveyed are reported. The survey sample consisted of 593 institutions and their 2144 academic units/programs. Of these, 426 institutions and 1175 of heads of…

This collection of presentations is meant to dramatize ongoing efforts at the state and local level where articulation between occupational and vocational education is being achieved. The presentations included are the following: (1) "Articulating Vocational Education at the Postsecondary Level"; (2) "Local Articulation Effort: The…

An evaluation is presented of the adequacy and effectiveness of the vocational education program delivery systems in the State of North Carolina assisted under the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act (VEA) and under the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA). Evaluation was conducted through analysis of seven reports issued by various state…

These proceedings contain summaries of presentations given at six workshops held in various locations in the United States and Canada from April through September 1985. The workshop topics represent areas of concern identified by youth corps staff responding to a needs assessment survey conducted in 1985. Topics are: (1) Work Project Development…

The work of the Committee on Continuing and Community Education in British Columbia (composed of adult educators from universities, vocational schools, community colleges, school districts, and a community education center), forms the basis of this report. (The committee was appointed to study and recommend future policy on funding,…

In the first of five papers from the American Association of Community and Junior Colleges and the American Vocational Association joint study on vocational education articulation, David Bushnell describes the study as a whole, and its methods of identifying exemplary programs. William Fedderson and William Loch outline the articulation program at…

This guide was developed to help administrators develop transnational distance education programs. It is organized in the order in which a cooperative project develops, using a question-and-answer format. The first seven chapters of the guide are structured to reflect the successive phases of a project: (1) Why should transnational cooperation be…

This guide describes the partnerships created by the Bay State Skills Corporation, which successfully united more than 100 people from government, education, and the private sector to train 332 people for jobs averaging $6.27 per hour to start; it also provides guidelines for establishing similar programs. The guide contains seven chapters. The…

This is a description of Wisconsin's vocational, technical, and adult education (VTAE) system designed to provide delivery of occupational education through comprehensive districts. It is intended for use by legislators, vocational educators, and policy makers. The system plan, divided into five sections, provides in the first section the basis…

This publication reports the development of the vocational-technical resource consortia in Ohio and identifies the operational procedures associated with successful programs. Five exemplary consortia were studied in some depth; however, data were obtained from all of the 23 consortia in the state. The research indicates that the consortium is an…

A project provided information to North Carolina community college users on telecommunication instruction and assisted officials at those community colleges, technical colleges, and technical institutes that were interested in offering broadcast television, cable television, or radio courses. A research survey of telecourse students examined…

The four programmatic school-to-work transition models being developed and implemented by Youthwork, Inc. are assessed. The thrust is both to distinguish these strategies, one from another, and to clarify the variations that occur within each of these four models: academic credit for work experience, expanded private sector involvement, career…

Issues in developing the institutional structures to deliver cross-sectoral education and training were examined in a study of five Australian single-sector higher education institutions with various institutional arrangements with the vocational education and training (VET) sector and five dual-sector universities. Data were collected from the…