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National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2021
"Research Messages 2020" highlights the diverse range of research activities undertaken over the past year by the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER). Research published during 2019 encompasses a range of themes and topics categorised according to three broad areas: (1) structures and systems for skilling and…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Educational Research, Foreign Countries, Job Skills
Harrington, Lois G.; And Others – 1983
Intended as a supplement to the Competency-Based Vocational Education Administrator Module Series, this guide overviews the typical vocational programs available and the general kinds of requirements involved that would have implications for program planning and budgeting. Part 1 of three parts defines what is meant by vocational education. The…
Descriptors: Adult Programs, Adult Vocational Education, Apprenticeships, Clinical Experience
Singh, Madhu, Ed. – 1999
This document contains six papers about and from a roundtable discussion of poverty alleviation, work, and adult learning. The "Introduction" (Madhu Singh) presents an overview of the roundtable. "Work-Related Adult Education: Challenges and Possibilities in Poverty Areas" (Enrique Pieck) describes work-related adult education…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Building Trades, Case Studies
Misko, Josie; Yufeng, Liu; He, Ouyang; Li, Jiang; Phan, Oanh – 2002
This document describes the major features of the vocational educational and training (VET) sectors in China and Australia, particularly the linkages between lower and higher VET that occur within secondary and postsecondary education in Australia and, in China, within junior secondary schools, senior secondary schools, and higher institutions of…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Adult Education, Apprenticeships, Articulation (Education)
Taylor, Richard, Ed.; Watson, David, Ed. – 1997
This document contains 17 papers from a Universities Association for Continuing Education (UACE) seminar at which UACE strategies and objectives were reviewed. The papers focus on four broad areas: the context of the UACE's work to promote continuing education and lifelong learning; its role in promoting flexibility of provision; its relationship…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Continuing Education, Delivery Systems
Vretakou, Vassileia; Rousseas, Panagiotis – 2003
As in the past, young people in Greece generally consider vocational education and training (VET) a last resort despite the state's continued efforts to promote VET as an option of equal standing and despite the research data showing that VET graduates face fewer difficulties in finding work than general education graduates do. In the past 10…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Admission Criteria, Adult Education, Adult Programs