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UK Department for Education, 2024
Skills Bootcamps were introduced to support adults to upskill and retrain in priority high-growth sectors with skills shortages. Skills Bootcamps are short, flexible courses, that are co-designed with employers and run for up to 16 weeks. Most are equivalent to the National Vocational Qualification (NVQ) levels 3-5 in the national qualifications…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Job Skills, Minicourses, Career and Technical Education
UK Department for Education, 2024
Skills Bootcamps were introduced to support the 2019 UK Government's manifesto commitment to giving adults the opportunity to build sector-specific skills and to help employers by giving people the skills they need to move into jobs in sectors with skills shortages. Skills Bootcamps are short, flexible courses, co-designed with employers and run…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Job Skills, Minicourses, Career and Technical Education
McIntyre, William A.; Blankenstein, Ronald G. – 1984
A program is being conducted by New Hampshire Vocational-Technical College in partnership with Sanders Associates, Inc., a rapidly growing electronics company, to retrain Sanders employees as electronic technicians. The program, requiring 720 hours and taking 13 months to complete, allows students to acquire more than half the credits needed for…
Descriptors: College Programs, Cooperative Planning, Cooperative Programs, Educational Planning
National Centre for Vocational Education Research, Leabrook (Australia). – 2002
The question of whether graduates of Australia's technical and further education (TAFE) programs are getting what they want from training was examined. A market segmentation approach was used to analyze data from the 2001 Student Outcomes Survey (SOS). The market segments analyzed covered 93% of TAFE graduates surveyed in the 2001 SOS. The…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Career Change, Definitions, Education Work Relationship