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Turker, A. Vural – 1987
Manpower studies carried out in Turkey in the 1980s show some critical shortages in the number of technicians, the so-called middle element. Recent attempts have been made to increase the numbers of the badly needed technical middle elements between engineers and skilled and semiskilled workers as well as those at lower technical levels. Other…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Educational Improvement, Employment Programs, Foreign Countries
Attivo, Barbara J.; And Others – 1981
A study was conducted to examine methods through which Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) participants may be awarded credit for participation in CETA-sponsored programs in Pennsylvania. To accomplish this, CETA prime sponsors, CETA program operators, and a group of randomly selected potential program operators were surveyed. After…
Descriptors: College Credits, Credits, Disadvantaged Youth, Employment Programs
Download full textWestern Job Training Partnership Association, Sacramento, CA. – 1996
The Western Job Training Partnership Association (WJTPA) supports the periodic evaluation of the scope and effectiveness of national, state, and local work force preparation and work force education programs. The WJTPA believes that future programs must correct the problems inherited from earlier work force preparation programs, such as the…
Descriptors: Employment Programs, Federal Programs, Job Training, Policy Formation
Arrington, Larry – 1982
Ways in which the efforts of vocational education and the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) can be coordinated are discussed in this fact sheet. Following an overview of CETA, seven titles from the CETA amendments of 1978 which provide opportunities for vocational education-CETA coordination are described: (1) Title I:…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Cooperative Programs, Coordination, Employment Programs
Wider Opportunities for Women, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1980
Since 1970, Wider Opportunities for Women (WOW), in Washington, D.C., has conducted programs to train and place disadvantaged women in nontraditional jobs. The results have been record-breaking: high placement rates, high job retention rates, good starting salaries, and upward mobility for women who seemed doomed to a life of poverty and…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Employment Opportunities, Employment Programs, Females
Riffel, Rodney – 1986
This guide is intended to help state legislators enact legislation and create programs of job training within the provisions of the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA). The guide's five sections cover the following: job training policy (an introduction); establishing oversight of a state's job training resources; the state legislature and the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Compliance (Legal), Employment Programs, Federal Legislation
Owens, Tom; Cohen, Carolyn – 1985
Education and employment and training program planners were surveyed to determine how they planned for emerging occupations. Planners identified several formal and informal means used to collect information to evaluate economic, industrial, and occupational trends. Information collection was conducted in five categories: publications, advisory…
Descriptors: Career Education, Data Collection, Educational Planning, Emerging Occupations
Duff, Grace; And Others – 1986
In Phase I of this project, a model delivery system was developed to provide marketable skills and supportive services for 16-20 single parents and/or homemakers residing in the rural southern five counties of Illinois. During this phase of the project, which lasted from January to June 1986, the assessment procedures and criteria from which the…
Descriptors: Early Parenthood, Employment Potential, Employment Programs, Instructional Materials
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. – 1994
This document contains testimony from two Senate hearings on the Reemployment and Training Act of 1994 by U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert B. Reich and other witnesses concerning the Act and the need for changes in the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act, which requires employers to notify employees of impending layoffs.…
Descriptors: Adults, Dislocated Workers, Employment Practices, Employment Programs
Women's Bureau (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1985
Based on a project carried out by the Women's Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor, this program guide provides a plan for helping women gain entrance into nontraditional industries. The guide uses as background and examples in the planning process the coal employment project that began in 1977 to make intensive efforts to help women get jobs in…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Coal, Employed Women, Employment Potential
Women's Bureau (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1985
The National Women's Employment and Education project (NWEE), sponsored by the Women's Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor, was a fast-paced effort designed to serve 20 women each month, 240 each year. The training concept was quite different from traditional programs in that NWEE's thrust was to move women quickly into jobs. The program…
Descriptors: Employed Women, Employment Potential, Employment Programs, Federal Programs
Opportunities Academy of Management Training, Inc., Philadelphia, PA. – 1986
This technical assistance guide is designed to expedite the implementation of partnerships between vocational education and community-based organizations (CBOs) as called for in the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act of 1984. It is probably most useful as a resource for local training activities related to CBO/vocational education/Job…
Descriptors: Community Organizations, Cooperative Programs, Employment Programs, Federal Legislation
Wisconsin Governor's Employment and Training Office, Madison. – 1984
These two volumes of a resource manual are intended to provide technical assistance to Private Industry Councils regarding attainment of employment competencies by youth enrolled in employment and training programs funded by the Job Training Partnership Act. Volume I defines youth competencies, lists major categories of the recommended…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Career Education, Competency Based Education, Employment Programs
Saunders, Laura W.; And Others – 1980
This guide has been prepared to illustrate the development and implementation of a program offering comprehensive employment and training services for young parents. The guide is based on the experiences of the Parent Employment Program of 735, Inc., which was launched as a demonstration project with funds from the Massachusetts Governor's Youth…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Early Parenthood, Employment Programs, Family Problems
Miller, Thomas W. – 1982
The current lag in U. S. productivity has many implications for vocational education. Before discussing the role of vocational education in easing the productivity crisis, it is necessary to understand the causes of the crisis. Included among these are rising energy prices; the segmentation of the American work force, by both geography and skills;…
Descriptors: Business, Business Responsibility, Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational Needs
