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Staff, Bruce – 1986
Lake Sumter Community College (Florida) undertook a project to improve its existing job placement services for vocational students. The primary objectives of the project were to develop and implement a system for all vocational students to register with the placement office, inform all vocational students and instructors about the services…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Employment Potential, Employment Services, Job Development
Download full textRatcliff, James L. – 1974
Prepared as part of the National Dissemination Project to suggest ways in which community colleges might better serve the needs of minority and disadvantaged students, this paper focuses on the job development concept. Career education deals with all three domains of learning--cognitive, affective, and psychomotor; job development deals with the…
Descriptors: Career Education, Career Guidance, Community Colleges, Curriculum Development
Paris, Kathleen A. – 1990
The Wisconsin Workplace Partnership Literacy (WPL) Program provided job-specific basic skills education to employees at 11 worksites. A total of 1,441 employees were recruited to participate in on-site competency-based educational activities to upgrade their basic skills sufficiently for job retention or advancement. Participants were encouraged…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Job Development
Kansas State Board of Education, Topeka. – 1992
This document outlines the Kansas plan for making every state citizen a learner and a worker by the year 2000. The goal of the plan is to take new approaches to education and human resources management that emphasize learning, flexibility, and productive participation in work and society throughout life. The plan lists the skills that will be…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Basic Skills, Competence, Competency Based Education
New York State Education Dept., Albany. Office of Occupational and Continuing Education. – 1984
A study examined approximately 130 projects that were conducted in New York between November 1980 and December 1983 as a part of the state's Short-Term Program for Economic Development. During the study, researchers interviewed representatives of the businesses, industries, unions, and educational institutions involved in the training programs in…
Descriptors: Business, Economic Development, Education Work Relationship, Educational Benefits
Edington, Everett; And Others – 1977
The energy manpower research project was established to review the process used to identify skills needed in emerging energy sources and to discover any new occupations for which additional post-high school, vocational/technical training would be needed. A supplemental part of the project was the development of a solar energy instructional module.…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Needs, Educational Objectives
Malowney, C. Lynn – 1983
This module, one of a series of 127 performance-based teacher education learning packages focusing on specific professional competencies of vocational teachers, deals with preparing exceptional students for employability. Included in the module are learning experiences that address the following topics: promoting employment opportunities for…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cultural Differences, Data Collection, Disabilities
Sellin, Burkart, Ed. – 1999
This document contains 23 papers on European trends in vocational education and training (VET) and the development of occupations and qualifications. The following papers are included: "Vocational Socialisation and Competence Development: The Historical Dimension" (Walter R. Heinz); "European Trends in the Development of Vocational…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Communications, Competence, Continuing Education
Wonacott, Michael E. – 2002
Vocational rehabilitation (VR) agencies are required partners in the one-stop system mandated by the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (WIA). The following features have long characterized VR: the primary goal of integrated competitive employment for persons with disabilities; state flexibility in VR systems, approaches, and structures; case…
Descriptors: Adult Programs, Agency Cooperation, Annotated Bibliographies, Articulation (Education)
