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Marcus, Jon – Lumina Foundation, 2020
Intermediaries--also referred to as bridge builders, boundary spanners, conveners, and other names--fill the critical role of connecting all the parties in the system to empower people with the skills required in the labor force. Those parties generally include employers, educators, workers, and prospective workers. Within these categories may…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Labor Force Development, Job Skills, Public Agencies
Illinois Community College Board, 2009
The Illinois Community College Board provided more than $3.3 million to community colleges during fiscal year 2009 to support local workforce and economic development services through their Business and Industry Centers. The workforce development activities conducted under this grant include customized job training on campus or on-site at a…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Nontraditional Education, Community Colleges, Industry
Harbison, Frederick H. – 1971
The growth, prosperity, and viability of the new African nations will depend ultimately on their ability to develop systematically and to utilize effectively their human resources. The major human resource problems are 1) rising unemployment in urban areas, 2) under-employment of the rural masses, 3) shortages of strategic skills, 4) poorly geared…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Economic Development, Human Resources, Labor Force Development
Illinois Community College Board, 2008
The Illinois Community College Board provided more than $3.3 million to community colleges during fiscal year 2008 to provide workforce and economic development services through their Business and Industry Centers. The workforce development activities conducted under this grant include customized job training on campus or on-site at a business;…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Nontraditional Education, Community Colleges, Industry
McCulloch, Cedric S. – 1985
A six-year project is planned to assist in improving a skill training system responsive to the Government of Jamaica's (GOJ) economic policies and labor market needs. The project is designed to achieve its objectives by focusing on three components. The Human Employment and Resource Training Trust (HEART) component is concerned with policy…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adult Vocational Education, Economic Development, Financial Support

Swetnam, John J. – Human Organization, 1980
Data on a commercial and an agricultural Guatemalan population indicates most peasants derive income from both agricultural and nonagricultural sources. While disguised employment does not utilize labor at its most efficient level, development projects should complement traditional economic activities and recognize that diversion of peasant labor…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Case Studies, Developing Nations, Dropouts

Kitaev, Igor V. – Russian Education and Society, 1993
Asserts that enormous public resources are being expended to teach over specialized disciplines that are useless in a market economy. Calls for educational changes including updated curricula and training materials in economics; inservice education and retraining; and a national network of entrepreneurial education. (CFR)
Descriptors: Curriculum, Economic Change, Economic Development, Educational Change
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris (France). – 1980
This document contains the proceedings of a high-level conference on the Employment of Women, attended by labor ministers and other high officials of countries belonging to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Delegates to the conference adopted a 14-point declaration pledging themselves to achieve equality of…
Descriptors: Adults, Affirmative Action, Economic Development, Employed Women
Illinois Community College Board, 2007
The Illinois Community College Board provided more than $3.3 million to community colleges during fiscal year 2007 to provide workforce and economic development services through their Business and Industry Centers. The workforce development activities conducted under this grant include customized job training on campus or on-site at a business;…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Nontraditional Education, Community Colleges, Industry
Carnevale, Anthony Patrick – 1984
American society is based on work. The industrial revolution exposed a growing proportion of the population to unemployment, underemployment, and dislocation. Early theoreticians believed that unemployment was a temporary labor market imbalance that would correct itself with downward wage adjustments. John Maynard Keynes, on the other hand, argued…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Disadvantaged Youth, Dislocated Workers, Economic Change
Woodhall, Maureen – 1979
This report presents summaries of existing state-of-the-art reviews of educational research dealing with education, work, and employment. Part 1 contains seven summary reviews. Each is identified by title, bibliographic information, and author information. The reviews are (1) Education and the Employment Problem in Developing Countries, an…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Economic Development, Education Work Relationship, Educational Background
Richards, Peter – 2001
Expanding upon a report presented to the International Labor Organization (ILO), this book documents the current world employment situation, including how it has fallen short, how current economic policies interact with world employment, and how improvements can be made. Chapter one, "The Commitment to Full Employment," describes how the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Careers, Developed Nations, Developing Nations
New Jersey State Employment and Training Commission, Trenton. – 1993
The At-Risk Youth Task Force of the State Employment and Training Commission concluded that a generation of young people faced underemployment or unemployment as a result of the increased skill demands required by the global economy. Two interrelated phenomena adversely affected the ability of a majority of young people to succeed in the labor…
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, Apprenticeships, Articulation (Education), Economic Development
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Bangkok (Thailand). Regional Office for Education in Asia and the Pacific. – 1981
Adult education and the economic development of the countries of Asia and the Pacific was discussed at a UNESCO conference held in Bangkok in November-December, 1980. The conference was opened by Raja Roy Singh, who emphasized the crucial significance of adult education in national development. He said that development is no longer construed only…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Literacy