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Karen Gardiner; Stephanie Petrov – Urban Institute, 2025
For more than a decade, the US Department of Labor (DOL) has prioritized apprenticeship expansion by promoting apprenticeship in nontraditional occupations (i.e., outside the construction sector) and by encouraging apprenticeship as a training option to increase the number of apprentices. Two ways to expand apprenticeships are to approve new…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, State Programs, Skilled Occupations, Federal Regulation
Strebel, Alexandra – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2023
Collective skill formation systems thrive if employers' skill needs are reflected in apprenticeship training programmes and firms offer apprenticeship positions. Occupation-level adaptation processes underpin these systems, which offer upper-secondary level vocational education leading to hundreds of occupations. Yet, it is considered challenging…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Apprenticeships, Vocational Education, Job Skills
Employment and Training Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. Bureau of Apprenticeship and Training. – 1984
This booklet describes how an apprenticeship program can be established in any industry and for any occupation requiring skills that take one or more years to learn. Topics covered briefly in the booklet include the following: how an apprenticeship program is started, recommended minimum standards, basic provisions, on-the-job instruction, and…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Experiential Learning, On the Job Training, Postsecondary Education
Caves, Kim; Covelli, Nicholas – Wisconsin Vocational Educator, 1988
The authors report on a partnership among American Motors Corporation, United Auto Workers, and Gateway Technical College designed to recall and retrain 1,200 auto workers. The impact on American Motors Corporation and the state of Wisconsin is described. (CH)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Dislocated Workers, Education Work Relationship, Program Development
Oyeneye, O. Y. – Vocational Aspect of Education, 1980
Illustrates how the self-allocative process of pupils can undermine the planning of vocational education in Nigeria. Discusses research conducted on the attitudes of primary school pupils to skilled jobs and craft-based education. (CT)
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Educational Planning, Elementary Secondary Education, Occupational Aspiration
Manning, Diane B. – Worklife, 1977
Discusses the Navajo Tribe's joining with the AFL-CIO building and construction trades unions to develop an apprentice job training program geared to the special employment problems of Navajos and to the projected labor needs for construction projects on or near the reservation. Focus is on the Navajo Construction Industry Manpower Program…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Ethnic Groups, Federal Aid, Intergroup Relations
Portland Community Coll., OR. – 1993
This program development guide outlines the procedures for replicating the B-WEST (Building Workers Entering Skilled Trades) program, a two-term professional certificate program designed to prepare women for skilled jobs in the traditionally male-dominated electrical, mechanical, and construction trades. The components and major activities of the…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Building Trades, Community Colleges, Employed Women
North Lake Coll., Irving, TX. – 1995
The Women in Skilled Trades (WIST) project was developed to increase female enrollments at North Lake College (NLC) in Irving, Texas, and thereby provide women with marketable skills in building maintenance/repair and encourage their continued training in a related two-year nontraditional technical program. Of the 21 students recruited into the…
Descriptors: Maintenance, Nontraditional Occupations, Program Development, Program Effectiveness
HEDINGER, HOWARD E. – 1967
THIS PROGRAM GUIDE IS FOR ADMINISTRATOR USE IN PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTING EFFECTIVE PROGRAMS OF RELATED INSTRUCTION FOR APPRENTICES IN THE NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY COLLEGE SYSTEM. IT WAS DEVELOPED BY THE LABOR DEPARTMENT APPRENTICE DIRECTOR AND STAFF, VOCATIONAL-TECHNICAL INSTRUCTORS, AND PERSONNEL FROM INDUSTRY AND DESIGNED BY SUBJECT MATTER…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Apprenticeships, Community Colleges, Course Descriptions

Rochester City School District, NY. – 1977
The overall objective of the program was to provide 200 Spanish-speaking adults and out-of-school youth, 16 years of age or older, with occupational instruction and English language skills which would enhance the enrollees' opportunities to acquire entry level job skills or upgrade the enrollees' present occupational status. The program began with…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Bilingual Education, Career Development, English (Second Language)
Polley, Beulah M. – 1981
Project ALMS (Adult Literacy Mission Support) was designed to improve the communication skills of semi-literate or illiterate adults, help participants become more self-sufficient, provide an ongoing program for other such individuals, and provide a manual of guidelines and suggestions for other programs. Three groups were established to make a…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Adults
Manpower Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. Bureau of Apprenticeship and Training. – 1977
Developed as a guide for local joint apprenticeship and training committees in establishing local bricklaying apprenticeship programs, this booklet represents the sixth revision of the national apprenticeship and training standards for bricklaying apprenticeship. (The standards were prepared and approved by the National Joint Bricklaying…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Affirmative Action, Apprenticeships, Bricklaying
Daugherty, Ronald D.; And Others – 1971
With the primary objective of expanding vocational and technical education programs to accommodate highway safety manpower requirements, this project focused on (1) identifying what portion of highway safety manpower needs fall within the realm of technical and skilled occupations, (2) determining the extent to which educational institutions are…
Descriptors: Consultants, Demonstration Programs, Educational Needs, Instructional Materials
American Vocational Association, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1972
Post-secondary occupational education was created to meet the developing needs for a new class of worker--the technician, the technologist, the semi-professional working as an assistant to professionals. This publication deals with the importance of post-secondary programs in meeting the manpower demands created by technological advancement. Among…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Educational Improvement, Educational Needs, Educational Programs
Portland Community Coll., OR. – 1993
The B-WEST (Building Workers Entering Skilled Trades) project was an 18-month demonstration project at a campus of Portland Community College (Oregon). During the B-WEST project, the following programs/components were developed: (1) a model building construction (electrical, mechanical, construction) trades program for unemployed and underemployed…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Building Trades, Community Colleges, Demonstration Programs