Context: Faced with deep challenges with access to formal education, many West African countries are increasingly taking steps to reform their informal apprenticeship systems to make them a quality skills development alternative for their teeming youth. A review of the literature shows that although different countries in the region are deploying…

The Transition Plan for a Career Development Program was developed as a plan for phasing in the career development concept, including its shared-time features, in the Washington, D.C. public schools. Shared-time is a scheduling process that allows students to attend a comprehensive high school for academic courses and a career development center…

This monograph outlines a model procedure for developing and running a community vocational transition center that would assist workers in making various planned and unplanned vocational transitions throughout their lives by offering a comprehensive array of vocational assessment and transition services. The first chapter addresses the question of…