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Download full textGreenleigh Associates, Inc., New York, NY. – 1970
An evaluation of the Job Opportunities in the Business Sectors (JOBS) program revealed that JOBS should be continued as a Federally assisted manpower program since it has demonstrated a viable role for business in manpower training. As a result of JOBS disadvantaged, unemployed, and underemployed persons have been elevated above poverty income…
Descriptors: Community Cooperation, Disadvantaged, Employer Attitudes, Employment Programs
American Vocational Journal, 1976
Listed here in brief form are the provisions concerning vocational education in the Education Amendments of 1976. Amounts authorized through fiscal 1982 are shown in an accompanying table. (Editor/HD)
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Federal State Relationship
Pacific Training and Technical Assistance Corp., Berkeley, CA. – 1972
The focus of the report is on the record and potential of urban Work Incentive (WIN) Programs for improving the status of disadvantaged workers. The single most important observation is that WIN Program efforts have no significant impact on the number or quality of jobs attained by the disadvantaged. These indices of program output are almost…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Development, Economically Disadvantaged, Labor Force Development
Wisconsin Univ., Madison. Center for Studies in Vocational and Technical Education. – 1972
This study, conducted in response to the requirements of Wisconsin's State Advisory Council for Vocational Education as delineated in the Vocational Amendments of 1968, focuses specifically on the impact of Federal vocational education funds on State health occupations education programs. The six chapters deal respectively with: (1) the…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Career Development, Labor Force Development, Labor Needs
Commission des Communautes Europeennes (Luxembourg). – 1975
Based on the working papers and the results of seminar discussions on the evaluation of vocational education in various European countries, this volume summarizes current European thinking on the evaluation of training programs. Chapter 1 describes and defines the different levels of analysis which can be used in evaluation: analysis in the…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Employment Opportunities, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods
Hyatt, Norman F.; Gloriod, John A. – 1972
This evaluation of 9 months of the first year of the federally funded Utah Manpower Development and Training Act Skills Center with 89 enrollees examines the program's effectiveness by means of a literature review, personnel interviews, preparation of training program objectives, and the utilization of these objectives as success criteria for the…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Objectives, Federal Programs, Goal Orientation
Kruger, A.M., Ed.; Meltz, N.M., Ed. – 1968
Canadian manpower problems were researched by a group of economists at the University of Toronto in areas of interest to manpower planners and students of the labor market. The dissatisfaction of policy makers with the present operation of the labor market is discussed in three areas: (1) inadequate output due to alleged labor shortages, (2)…
Descriptors: Economic Research, Educational Planning, Foreign Countries, Labor Economics
College Entrance Examination Board, New York, NY. – 1975
A selection of 26 operational linkage programs are described in the supplemental document, providing career education practitioners with examples of program development and operation in the area of school-work relationships. The programs are grouped under four categories and in terms of their relationship between education and work: (1)…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Career Education, Curriculum Development, Educational Assessment
WOLFBEIN, SEYMOUR L. – 1967
DURING THE EARLY 1960'S, THREE PRIMARY CHANGES OCCURRED IN THE UNITED STATES WHICH CALLED FOR A BASIC REORIENTATION IN ATTITUDES, POLICIES, AND PROGRAMS OF ACTION. INVOLVED WERE (1) AN ECONOMIC POLICY TO REDUCE UNEMPLOYMENT THROUGH ECONOMIC GROWTH (1964 REVENUE ACT), (2) AN ACTIVE MANPOWER POLICY TO PROVIDE A TRAINED LABOR SUPPLY (1965 MANPOWER…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Economic Progress, Economically Disadvantaged, Employment Level
Manpower Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1967
THE FIFTH ANNUAL CATALOG OF CONTRACT AND GRANT RESEARCH UNDER THE MANPOWER ADMINISTRATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR DESCRIBES PROJECTS CONCERNED WITH THE IMPACT OF TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE, ADEQUACY OF JOB PREPARATION, UNEMPLOYMENT OF THE YOUNG, THE NON-WHITE, AND OTHER SPECIAL GROUPS, AND THE WASTE OF HUMAN RESOURCES IN RURAL AREAS. THE…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Contracts, Doctoral Degrees, Employment Opportunities
