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Dromey, Joe – Learning and Work Institute, 2020
This report explores the links between trade unions and workplace training, and the potential benefits of social partnership in the skills system. The UK is relatively unusual in having no formal role for trade unions in the training system. In most advanced economies, trade unions and employers work alongside government in shaping the skills…
Descriptors: Unions, Workplace Learning, Foreign Countries, COVID-19
Richard, Alan – Jobs For the Future, 2015
Advanced manufacturing is growing and thriving in the United States. Companies are in great need of reliable employees who can communicate well, effectively make decisions, and are interested in long-term careers with opportunity for advancement. Employers have identified a need for a more robust talent pipeline to narrow America's skills gap--a…
Descriptors: Manufacturing Industry, Skilled Workers, Labor Force Development, Training
Hoffman, Nancy – Jobs For the Future, 2015
In the United States, we tend to assume that young people should become educated and then go to work, as though the two were entirely separate stages of life. This dichotomy blinds us to the fact that work itself can be a powerful means of education-giving students opportunities to apply academic subject matter to real-world problems, and pushing…
Descriptors: Role of Education, Job Skills, Career Development, High Schools
Hoffman, Nancy – Jobs For the Future, 2015
For young people in the United States, whatever their backgrounds, one of the essential purposes of schooling should be to help them develop the knowledge, skills, and competence needed to search for and obtain work that they find at least reasonably satisfying. Our present educational system does precious little to introduce young people to the…
Descriptors: Role of Education, Job Skills, Career Development, High Schools
Hoffman, Nancy – Jobs For the Future, 2015
In the United States, we tend to assume that young people should become educated and then go to work, as though the two were entirely separate stages of life. This dichotomy blinds us to the fact that work itself can be a powerful means of education. Indeed, the workplace is where many young people become most engaged in learning high-level skills…
Descriptors: Role of Education, Job Skills, Career Development, High Schools
McCarthy, Mary Alice; Musset, Pauline – OECD Publishing, 2016
Vocational education and training (VET) programmes are facing rapid change and intensifying challenges. How can employers and unions be engaged? How can workbased learning be used? How can teachers and trainers be effectively prepared? How should postsecondary programmes be structured? The country reports in this series look at these and other…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Employers, Unions, Workplace Learning
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Ball, Malcolm – Studies in the Education of Adults, 2011
The initiative by the Trades Union Congress (TUC) and affiliated trade unions in the UK to appoint trade union learning representatives (ULRs), to promote learning among their members, is a significant development in adult learning. Understandably, the initiative has attracted the attention of academic researchers, but primarily from the…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Labor Education, Unions, Adult Learning
Heiser, David P. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
United States workers are facing a workplace in which globalization, outsourcing, accelerating technology innovation, and changing demographics demands changes in the way they keep their job skills current. As a primary representative of workers' interests in the workplace, unions want their members to acquire and improve the skills, knowledge,…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Learning Strategies, Global Approach, Lifelong Learning
Merrifield, Juliet – Centre for Literacy of Quebec, 2012
Learning always takes place in a particular context and culture, yet educators have tended to focus their attention mainly on the form of learning, its methodology, content and teaching approach. While these can and do affect learning and its results, this paper looks beyond the particulars of the program to explore how the context and culture of…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Workplace Literacy, Basic Skills, Context Effect
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Brown, Tony – International Journal of Training Research, 2006
This paper reports on research into a national education program within one of Australia's largest trade unions. The program was designed to assist the union's staff and elected officials respond to the rapidly changing industrial and political conditions in the manufacturing sector. It is ambitious in scope comprising sixteen modules that range…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Manufacturing, Unions, Politics