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Direct linkHora, Matthew T. – Liberal Education, 2018
Soon after the Great Recession of 2008 hit this manufacturing stalwart of the upper Midwest, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker began proclaiming that the skills gap--the idea that plenty of well-paying jobs existed, but the educational system was failing to provide employers with skilled workers--was the primary cause of high unemployment and a…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Job Skills, Education Work Relationship, Achievement Gap
Maguire, Sheila; Freely, Joshua; Clymer, Carol; Conway, Maureen; Schwartz, Deena – Public/Private Ventures, 2010
Over the past two decades, an innovative approach to workforce development known as sectoral employment has emerged, resulting in the creation of industry-specific training programs that prepare unemployed and underskilled workers for skilled positions and connect them with employers seeking to fill such vacancies. In 2003, with funding from the…
Descriptors: Job Applicants, Control Groups, Office Practice, Job Training
Green, Deborah A. – 1979
Though women are entering the paid work force in increasing numbers, their distribution across occupational categories is far from even. Women workers are clustered in traditional women's work jobs and represent only five percent of the nation's craft workers. In an effort to discover the motivations, experiences, and attitudes of women in…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Career Choice, Employed Women, Employment Opportunities
Download full textBECKMAN, ANN C.; QUIRK, CATHLEEN – 1967
THIRTY-THREE PERSONS PARTICIPATED IN THE RESEARCH CONFERENCE ON APPRENTICESHIP TRAINING COSPONSORED BY THE OFFICE OF MANPOWER POLICY, EVALUATION, AND RESEARCH, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR, AND THE CENTER FOR STUDIES IN VOCATIONAL AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION, THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN. THE OBJECTIVES OF THE CONFERENCE WERE TO (1) PRESENT THE FINDINGS OF…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Apprenticeships, Blacks, Conferences
Wisconsin State Council on Vocational Education, Madison. – 1989
This document reports testimony presented at a public hearing on the future of the skilled work force in the Milwaukee area. Some of the views held by the Milwaukee-area educators and business and industry leaders were the following: (1) the current skilled labor shortage will continue into the 1990s; (2) many students going through the Wisconsin…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Disadvantaged Youth, Education Work Relationship, Educational Improvement
RAJAN, G. SOUNDARA – 1966
THIS STUDY OF WISCONSIN'S APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAM IN BUILDING, METAL AND OTHER TRADES DESCRIBES THE ROLES OF UNIONS, EMPLOYERS, ADVISORY COMMITTEES, VOCATIONAL SCHOOLS, AND THE STATE. IT ANALYZES REGISTRATIONS, COMPLETIONS, AND DROPOUTS, AND REPORTS THE OPINION FINDINGS FROM RESPONSES TO QUESTIONNAIRES SENT TO APPRENTICES, DROPOUTS, AND EMPLOYERS.…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Apprenticeships, Dropout Research, Dropouts
