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Download full textUNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre for Technical and Vocational Education and Training, 2016
The Biennial Report presents a selection of UNESCO-UNEVOC's activities during 2014 and 2015. The activities contributed to UNESCO's sectoral priorities and programmatic objectives and assisted Member States to provide equitable, inclusive and quality education and promote lifelong learning for sustainable development. Importantly, the selected…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Guidelines, Administrative Principles, Network Analysis
School Shop, 1972
The Kent County (Mich.) Beltline Skill Center was constructed to meet the job market demands of an advancing economy. Accountability is the key to every phase of its operation. (Editor)
Descriptors: Accountability, Program Descriptions, Skill Centers, Skill Development
Vadnais, Arthur – American Vocational Journal, 1974
The conference of the Manpower Division of the American Vocational Association is summarized. Skill centers, relevant Federal legislation, student-instructor relationship, curriculum development, and organization business items were among the topics discussed. (AG)
Descriptors: Conference Reports, Curriculum Development, Federal Legislation, Skill Centers
Sacks, Raymond J.; and others – Amer Vocat J, 1969
Descriptors: Comprehensive Programs, Disadvantaged Youth, High Schools, Program Descriptions
Reynolds, Lawrence J.; Baldwin, Fred D. – 1979
This publication reports a Virginia study of the structure of local education divisions, community colleges, and other organizations capable of delivering service to Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) clients. Its purpose was to determine how short-term-funded projects can utilize facilities and personnel with minimum disruption to…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Employment Programs, Federal Programs, Postsecondary Education
Ribbens, Harvey – American Vocational Journal, 1973
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Furniture Industry, Machine Tool Operators, Newspapers
Crowl, Lynda C. – 1976
This paper discusses learning skills centers in Kansas connected with area vocational-technical schools and community junior colleges. These centers are designed to offer basic skills instruction in reading, composition, math, and study skills areas to students who cannot succeed in a vocational program because of deficiencies in one or all of…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Career Development, Educationally Disadvantaged, Learning Laboratories
Massachusetts Univ., Amherst. Labor Relations and Research Center.
This is a report of a training project conducted in Massachusetts to explore mechanisms through which organized labor might involve itself more fully in new and existing programs for preventing and controlling youth crime. Specifically, the objectives were: (1) to explore the problem of the young offender, (2) to explore what is being done for the…
Descriptors: Community Action, Community Involvement, Conferences, Delinquency Causes
DePetro, Henry – 1972
Planned as a cooperative program between Aims College and a local school district, the exemplary program Operation Bridge will represent a comprehensive approach to the vocational needs of disadvantaged youths with a program aimed mainly toward Chicano youths from economically underprivileged families. Project features are to include: (1)…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Counseling, Career Education, Cooperative Programs
Vermeulen, Robert – 1968
This study concentrated on evaluating the success of the Lincoln Skills Center, Kalamazoo, Michigan, in helping trainees improve their basic education and vocational skills and then to find suitable employment. Relationships were also investigated between vocational proficiency and literacy skill levels as well as between basic education…
Descriptors: Achievement, Adult Basic Education, Age Differences, Doctoral Dissertations
National Planning Association, Washington, DC. Center for Priority Analysis. – 1972
A study of duplications in public skill training programs in twenty American cities resulted in a two-volume report. Volume One (ED 068 706) summarized and drew conclusions from the individual city reports contained in Volume Two. "Skill training" is used to mean all programs whose major purpose is the imparting of marketable skills to…
Descriptors: Educational Programs, Efficiency, Entry Workers, Federal Aid
Baldwin, Fred D. – Appalachia, 2002
Rural Marion County (Tennessee), the town of Kimball, the Appalachian Regional Commission, and a local community college founded a regional skills center. The center offers a 2-year associate of science degree and classes in GED preparation, parenting, drug abuse prevention, cosmetology, and air conditioning and refrigeration. It has expanded…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Colleges, Education Work Relationship, Experiential Learning
Chern, Hermine J.; And Others – 1986
During March and April of 1986, the three members of the Career Education Evaluation Unit of the Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) School District interviewed 29 automotive mechanics teachers working at nine comprehensive high schools, two vocational technical schools, and two skills centers. The interviews focused on the implementation of standardized…
Descriptors: Auto Mechanics, Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Assessment, Educational Objectives
Tadlock, Larry – 1976
To assess the attitude of high school students toward travel away from their home school for vocational training, a two-part study was conducted. The objective of the first part was to determine the number of students in the State of Washington who actually traveled away from their home schools for vocational training and of the second part to…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, High School Students, Regional Cooperation, School Districts
Quincy Public School District 172, IL. – 1975
The overall objective of Career Education Through Multi-Experience Centers is to develop and implement a comprehensive career education program for special education in the Quincy, Illinois public schools. Part one of the report provides statistical data on the project. The bulk of part two analyzes the progress made toward accomplishing the…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Education, Educational Objectives, Educational Planning
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