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Jobs for the Future, 2021
Even before the COVID-19 crisis, the United States was overdue for a transformation of its postsecondary education and workforce development systems to meet the vast skill and employment needs of today's workers and employers. The pandemic has exponentially increased this need for change, with millions of Americans permanently out of work and in…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Educational Change, Labor Force Development
National Skills Coalition, 2020
America faces the most devastating economic crisis since the Great Depression, and National Skills Coalition (NSC) stands with the working people and local businesses who have been most impacted by the pandemic's economic fallout. Equitable opportunities for working people and local businesses to participate in and benefit from a rebound and…
Descriptors: Economic Change, Economic Climate, Job Skills, Job Training
Corney, Mark – Adults Learning, 2009
Britain is in the longest recession since the Second World War. Mass unemployment is back. The road to recovery could be long and bumpy. On the fiscal front, the deficit could be higher than the 175 billion British Pounds forecast for 2009-10. Bringing the deficit under control will require higher taxes and lower public spending. In an effort to…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Foreign Countries, Policy Analysis, Public Policy
Wright, James E. – Lifelong Learning, 1983
Identifies problems associated with the transition to a postindustrial America as they relate to the role of adult education in the human and economic development task of retraining adults. (JOW)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Economic Development, Retraining, Skill Development
Osipian, Ararat L. – Online Submission, 2004
This article suggests that the reform of economic instruction in the Former Soviet Union should focus on both learning and action. The incorporation of mathematical methods into the new economic curriculum will occur based on close cooperation among mathematicians and economists. The new economic instruction will have an interdisciplinary…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Incentives, Retraining, Unions

Boucher, Frederick C. – Technology Teacher, 1988
The United States is facing unprecedented competition in research, development, and manufacturing. To meet the challenge, we must improve our educational system and develop technological skills. The Trade and International Education Policy Reform Act, which includes the Technology Education Act, authorizes over $8 billion for education and…
Descriptors: Competition, Economic Development, Federal Legislation, Industrial Arts
O'Connor, Robert – Training, 1992
If market economies are to emerge from the ruins of the Soviet empire, people need training in almost everything. Efforts are being made in the areas of management, service, accounting, and police work. (Author/JOW)
Descriptors: Accounting, Administration, Adult Education, Economic Development
Creticos, Peter A.; Sheets, Robert G. – 1989
A project will develop and test a comprehensive monitoring and evaluation system tailored especially to the objectives and administrative requirements of state-financed, workplace-based employee training programs. That system will have the following three components: (1) a process monitoring system that shows whether the programs are following…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Economic Development, Evaluation Methods, Job Training
Lee, Chris; Zemke, Ron – Training, 1983
The real retraining of the American work force will not come about through massive, federally operated job training programs. It will come about only when employers are able to look forward to a promising economic future that requires highly trained and motivated employees and that offers real jobs. (Author/SSH)
Descriptors: Economic Development, Job Development, Labor Force Development, Reentry Workers
Maradian, Steve – New Directions for Community Colleges, 1989
Identifies the economic conditions mandating a strong role for community colleges in economic development. Describes Belmont Technical College's (OH) efforts to revitalize the local economy by expanding its mining technology program, redeveloping abandoned land, and retraining displaced steel workers. Urges colleges to explore nontraditional…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Economic Development, Economic Factors, Job Training
Charner, Ivan; Rolzinski, Catherine A. – New Directions for Continuing Education, 1987
The authors ask questions and raise issues for continuing education. The questions provide a perspective for looking at the future integration of education and work. Topics covered are (1) clients, (2) content, (3) modes of delivery, and (4) sources. (CH)
Descriptors: Adult Students, Continuing Education, Delivery Systems, Economic Development
New York Governor's Advisory Committee for Black Affairs, Albany. – 1988
Effective strategies to raise the employment and income levels of blacks in New York State must be comprehensive, balanced, and informed. Past efforts have failed because they have been narrow, short-run, imbalanced, or based on poor or incomplete information. The State's black population is most heavily concentrated in New York City, where the…
Descriptors: Blacks, Developmental Programs, Economic Development, Entry Workers
Schuchat, Theodor – Industrial Gerontology, 1975
Two U. N. reports on aging and retirement are reviewed. There is a movement in developing nations toward early retirement with subsequent social welfare problems, and training for "second careers" has not yet caught on. The General Assembly has asked for a special group to suggest guidelines for national policies. (Author/AJ)
Descriptors: Conference Reports, Developing Nations, Early Retirement, Economic Development

Higgerson, Mary Lou – Continuing Higher Education Review, 1988
Discusses factors affecting higher education that will allow continuing education to assume a more central role: (1) aging of the student body, (2) changes in the work force, and (3) advocacy of economic development. Details the new role and provides guidelines for assessing program readiness to fulfill it. (CH)
Descriptors: Continuing Education, Demography, Economic Development, Educational Change
Striner, Herbert E. – Journal of Industry--Education Cooperation, 1981
Until the United States adopts an investment approach to its labor force and provides adequate funds for continuous upgrading of human resources, the unemployment rate will remain above acceptable levels. (SK)
Descriptors: Economic Development, Employment Projections, Human Resources, Job Training