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Joseph Cole – ProQuest LLC, 2023
In 2010, Goodwill of Central and Southern Indiana opened its first Excel Center adult high schools aimed at assisting adults in obtaining a high school diploma and transitioning those adults into higher education, industry certifications, and the workforce completely tuition free. MERS Goodwill, the largest Missouri branch of Goodwill (excluding…
Descriptors: Adult Education, High Schools, Educational History, High School Graduates
BC Student Outcomes, 2022
Every year, the BC Student Outcomes Program collects feedback from former students who took post-secondary programs. Student feedback is essential to maintain quality and relevance in the education system. In 2022, over 28,500 former students were surveyed; key results from those surveys are presented in this report. 90% of the former…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Outcomes of Education, Postsecondary Education, Student Satisfaction
Griffin, Tabatha; Mandy Mihelic – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2019
The online delivery of training is well established in the vocational education and training (VET) sector, and it is not unusual for a course to include training that is delivered online in one or more units. However, little is known about the online delivery of entire qualifications in VET and how this works, given the overarching role of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Online Courses, Vocational Education, Educational Technology
BC Student Outcomes, 2021
Every year, BC Student Outcomes collects feedback from former students who took post-secondary programs. Student feedback is essential to maintain quality and relevance in the education system. In 2021, just over 29,500 former students were surveyed; key results from those surveys are presented here. In 2021, 92 percent of the former…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Outcomes of Education, Postsecondary Education, Student Satisfaction
Bishop, Mason M. – American Enterprise Institute, 2019
Several economic factors influence the availability of job openings and labor supply, including technological change and access to quality educational resources. One of the most important factors explaining the current disparity between available jobs and labor supply, however, has been the "skills gap," or the difference between the…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Noncredit Courses, Community Colleges, Job Training
BC Student Outcomes, 2020
Every year, BC Student Outcomes collects feedback from former students who took post-secondary programs. Student feedback is essential to maintain quality and relevance in the education system. In 2020, more than 29,000 former students were surveyed; key results from those surveys are presented here. In 2020, 92 percent of the former…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Outcomes of Education, Postsecondary Education, Student Satisfaction
UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning, 2020
The International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP)-UNESCO Dakar and the Francophonie Institute for Education and Training (IFEF) wanted to study how the competency-based training (CBT) was adapted, what contextualisation and adaptation of programmes according to the CBT has taken place, and what positive practices have made the CBT…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Vocational Education, Foreign Countries, Program Implementation
UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning, 2020
The International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP)-UNESCO Dakar and the Francophonie Institute for Education and Training (IFEF) wanted to study how the competency-based training (CBT) was adapted, what contextualisation and adaptation of programmes according to the CBT has taken place, and what positive practices have made the CBT…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Vocational Education, Foreign Countries, Program Implementation
Emrey-Arras, Melissa – US Government Accountability Office, 2019
Student parents face many challenges, including paying for child care, that can make it difficult for them to complete a degree. The federal government supports student parents through Education's Child Care Access Means Parents in School (CCAMPIS) program, which provides colleges funding for child care services, and federal student aid, which can…
Descriptors: Child Care, Parents, Student Financial Aid, Federal Aid
Romaguera, Claude Bonazzo; Jensen, Mishan; Wang, Crystal – Online Submission, 2018
This full report (a brief summary report also was published separately) describes results from the Career and Technical Education (CTE) Student Survey, administered in Spring 2017 in AISD. The survey was designed to gather students' feedback about their experiences taking the advanced CTE courses offered in their specific career pathway. Students…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Student Attitudes, Advanced Courses, School Districts
Glennie, Elizabeth; Lauff, Erich; Ottem, Randy – Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education, US Department of Education, 2017
High school students who complete technical coursework in a given field should be able to demonstrate their skill mastery by passing a technical skill assessment that is recognized in that field. States are using a variety of approaches to assess students' skill attainment, with some adopting industry-recognized assessments linked to national…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Career Education, Professional Education, State Legislation
Salomon-Fernandez, Yves – New England Journal of Higher Education, 2014
For southern New England, the middle-skills gap is projected to become acute by 2020, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. Historically and currently, the middle-skills labor pool in Massachusetts has been significantly below national rates and has been recently experiencing a decline. Closing the middle-skills gap depends on improving…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Outcomes of Education, Accountability, Economic Factors
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Klein, Elisa L.; Zheng, Xiaying; Sunderman, Gail L.; Henneberger, Angela K.; Stapleton, Laura M.; Woolley, Michael E. – Grantee Submission, 2016
Increasing awareness of the vital developmental implications of the care and education of young children has led to efforts in Maryland to advance early childhood care and education (ECCE). To that end, Maryland has consolidated ECCE services into one division of the Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE) and developed a number of…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Access to Education, Preschool Education
Alder, Kate – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The recent calls for increased accountability in higher education, and the rising demand for workers with middle skills, have combined to raise public awareness of the critical role of community colleges in educating the workforce. The accountability measures used by the institutions in answering this call, completion and retention rates, may not…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Career Education, Technical Education, Qualitative Research
Castellano, Marisa; Sundell, Kirsten E.; Overman, Laura T.; Richardson, George B.; Stone, James R., III – National Research Center for Career and Technical Education, 2014
This study was designed to investigate the relationship between participation in federally mandated college and career-preparatory programs--known as programs of study (POS)--and high school achievement outcomes. POS are an organized approach to college and career readiness that offer an aligned sequence of courses spanning secondary and…
Descriptors: College Preparation, Career Readiness, Programs, College Readiness
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