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Direct linkAllais, Stephanie – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2022
This paper examines three interrelated factors outside of formal provision of technical and vocational education and training (TVET) in sub-Saharan Africa that have undermined TVET systems. The first is the process, pace, and levels of industrialisation, which has had a direct effect on TVET provision: low numbers of well-paying jobs requiring…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Technical Education, Industrialization
Download full textHaviland, Sara; Robbins, Steven – ETS Research Report Series, 2021
Workforce development and career and technical education (CTE) have long provided reliable pathways to middle skill jobs and a gateway to the middle class. Given recent changes in middle skills jobs, the education landscape, and federal policy priorities, the role of CTE in the U.S. educational landscape is evolving more rapidly, encompassing a…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Technical Education, Skilled Workers, Educational Research
US House of Representatives, 2017
This document records testimony from a hearing held to examine ways to help students succeed by strengthening the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act. Member statements were presented by: (1) Honorable John Kline, Chairman, Committee on Education and the Workforce; and (2) Honorable Robert C. Scott, Ranking Member, Committee on…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Technical Education, Vocational Education
Anderson, Theresa; Eyster, Lauren; Lerman, Robert I.; Clymer, Carol; Conway, Maureen; Montes, Marcela – Urban Institute, 2014
Launched in 2011, the Accelerating Opportunity (AO) initiative aims to increase the ability of students with low basic skills to earn valued occupational credentials, obtain well-paying jobs, and sustain rewarding careers. AO encourages states to change the delivery of adult education for students interested in learning career skills by enrolling…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Basic Skills, Adult Basic Education, Credentials
Dougherty, Shaun M. – Thomas B. Fordham Institute, 2016
Until the late 1990s, "vocational education" in traditional trades such as carpentry, cosmetology, and auto mechanics was often the presumptive high school placement for low-performing students considered ill-suited for college. However, in the past two decades, policymakers and educators have reconsidered what is now referred to as…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, High School Students, Outcomes of Education, Job Skills
BC Student Outcomes, 2013
The Skills and Training Plan (announced September 2012) projects that there will be nearly one million job openings between 2012 and 2020 in British Columbia. Of these openings, 43 percent will need trades and technical training. It is anticipated that there will be a cumulative gap of 22,000 to 32,000 technical and trades workers in the province.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Apprenticeships, Employment Opportunities, On the Job Training
US Department of Education, 2018
The Department of Education Strategic Plan for Fiscal Years 2018-2022 describes the policy and operational priorities for the agency. The Plan details the Department's strategic goals and objectives over the next four years. The Plan also provides an overview of our Fiscal Year 2018-2019 Agency Priority Goals.
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Improvement
Wyoming Department of Education, 2011
The Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Technical Education Act of 2006 (Perkins IV) is the principal source of federal funding to states for the improvement of secondary and postsecondary career and technical education programs. States are provided with funds for distribution to local educational agencies (LEAs) and postsecondary institutions for…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Technical Education
Employment and Training Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1989
Increasing concerns about the skill level of U.S. workers are driven by demographics, technological change, and international competition. Greater percentages of the labor force will be comprised of those groups that have traditionally faced the greatest barriers to full participation in the labor force. Rapid technological change is increasing…
Descriptors: Adults, Apprenticeships, Competition, Credentials
