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Wilson, Randall – Jobs For the Future, 2015
The Accelerating Opportunity initiative helps our nation's lowest-skilled adults earn college credentials and enter higher-wage jobs faster by combining the Adult Basic Education and career and technical training they need into one integrated curriculum. Based on four years of designing and managing Accelerating Opportunity, Jobs for the Future…
Descriptors: Adult Programs, Adult Learning, Continuation Students, Integrated Curriculum
Gardner, Phil – Collegiate Employment Research Institute, 2013
Little information exists on the basic elements of diversity recruiting on college campuses. A set of questions was developed for the Collegiate Employment Research Institute's (CERI's) annual college hiring survey that attempted to capture the current practices and benchmarks being employed by organizations in their diversity recruiting programs.…
Descriptors: Benchmarking, Student Diversity, Student Employment, Organizational Culture
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Dray, Beattie; Burke, Linda; Hurst, Heather M.; Ferguson, Anne; Marks-Maran, Diane – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2011
Vocationally based higher education programmes are meant to prepare people for employment in their chosen fields of study. In nursing, historically, employment after qualifying has been almost assured, with sufficient vacancies available for newly qualified nurses. Recently, however, for a number of reasons, primarily related to economic…
Descriptors: Nursing Education, Employment Potential, Nurses, Vocational Education
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Troutt-Erwin, Eileen; Morgan, Frederic L. – 1986
For the past 10 years, the School of Technical Careers at Southern Illinois University has blended government Job Training Partnership Act or Comprehensive Employment and Training Act funds, existing college programs, and local health facilities into successful training programs in allied health careers. The School of Technical Careers, through…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, College Programs, Disadvantaged, Employment Programs
Bellevue Community Coll., WA. – 1979
This teaching manual for a nine-week vocational orientation course for displaced homemakers covers emotional support, self-confidence building, and short- and long-term career and life planning. Designed to be used with a group of fifteen or less in an informal environment, the program manual is divided into two types of lessons: emotional support…
Descriptors: Adults, Career Counseling, Career Development, Career Education
Bos, Johannes M.; Scrivener, Susan; Snipes, Jason; Hamilton, Gayle – 2002
The effects of adult education in welfare-to-work programs were examined in a national evaluation of welfare-to-work strategies. The evaluation used a random research design to estimate the overall effects of welfare-to-work programs in the following states: Georgia, Ohio, Michigan, Oklahoma, Oregon, and California. The study focused on the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Basic Skills, College Programs
Vocational Training Council (Hong Kong). – 2000
This document contains 123 papers from an international conference on vocational education and training (VET) for lifelong learning in the information era. The papers focus on the following themes: (1) societal and ethical issues; (2) human resource development and personnel training; (3) international issues; (4) information technology in VET;…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Academic Standards, Adult Learning, Alternative Assessment