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Adult ESL and Literacy: Issues and Options. Working Paper Summer Institute 2008
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Wrigley, Heide Spruck – Centre for Literacy, 2008
In this paper, the author would like to put forward a number of issues to think about and discuss. At the same time, she argues for a better articulated system that more closely matches the needs and goals of various subgroups of English language learners. Adult ESL programs serve diverse immigrant populations with different needs and goals. A…
Descriptors: Literacy, Adult Literacy, English Language Learners, Immigrants
Where the "T" in CETA Is Very Important.
Garza, Oziel – Worklife, 1978
Describes the job training programs at the Hampden District Regional Skills Center, Springfield, Massachusetts, financed under the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act of 1973. The center trains 650 persons at a time and places more than 800 trainees a year in jobs through involving industry in the planning and training. (MF)
Descriptors: Employment Programs, Federal Programs, Job Placement, Job Training
Skillcentre Training: Development and Prospects.
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Adnett, N. J.; Tennant, A. – Journal of European Industrial Training, 1978
To relieve the increasing shortage of skilled workers in the United Kingdom, the government established boards to stimulate and regulate private industry's training efforts and also provided direct training services in Skillcentres (formerly Government Training Centres). The article describes the Skillcentres program, training objectives, program…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Federal Programs, Foreign Countries, Government Role
Creating Opportunities: Tennessee's Southeast Regional Skills Center.
Baldwin, Fred D. – Appalachia, 2002
Rural Marion County (Tennessee), the town of Kimball, the Appalachian Regional Commission, and a local community college founded a regional skills center. The center offers a 2-year associate of science degree and classes in GED preparation, parenting, drug abuse prevention, cosmetology, and air conditioning and refrigeration. It has expanded…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Colleges, Education Work Relationship, Experiential Learning
Proceedings of the Decatur Seminar; November 1971.
Fry, Ronald, Ed.; And Others – 1971
The purpose of the seminar was to explore and exchange ideas on the evaluation process by providing a forum for the description of seven of the more highly developed client evaluation programs serving Illinois' handicapped clients: the Decatur Evaluation Center, the Employment Training Center, Goodwill Industries of Chicago and Cook County, Jewish…
Descriptors: Community Services, Emotional Disturbances, Employment Services, Evaluation Methods
Teaching for Tomorrow: "Quick Start-Up" Vocational Training Programs.
Langen, Herbert J.; Thomas, Violet S. – 1979
This report contains a description of the economic outlook of Arizona and the nation as a whole, information on nationwide skill centers and their efforts to meet industry's needs, and recommendations for a program that would be effective in answering future labor needs. Section 1 includes the economic outlook for Arizona and the nation; a report…
Descriptors: Continuing Education, Definitions, Demonstration Programs, Economic Climate
RETRAINING UNDER THE MANPOWER DEVELOPMENT AND TRAINING ACT OF 1962--INSTITUTIONAL PROGRAMS.
HOOS, IDA R. – 1967
A DISCUSSION OF INSTITUTIONAL RETRAINING PROGRAMS UNDER THE MANPOWER DEVELOPMENT AND TRAINING ACT (1962) OUTLINES MANPOWER REPORTING AND TRAINING PROVISIONS OF THE ACT ITSELF, DISCUSSES PROBLEMS OF IMPLEMENTATION IN CALIFORNIA (I.E., DIFFICULTY IN FURNISHING ON-THE-JOB PROGRAMS AND PROPER COUNSELING), OUTLINES NATIONAL AND REGIONAL TRAINING UNDER…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Distributive Education, Employment Experience, Evaluation