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Celestin Mayombe – Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning, 2024
Purpose: There is a global concern about the effectiveness of vocational education and training (VET) programmes in developing job-related skills and competencies for real-world environments for disadvantaged and unemployed youths. Experiential learning (EL) is a major component of VET programmes. This article aims to examine the effects of…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Job Skills, Experiential Learning, Foreign Countries
Köpsén, Johanna – International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2022
Context: Swedish Higher Vocational Education (HVE) is organised as state-funded programmes provisioned by both public and private education providers in close relation to employers. In HVE programme managers have responsibilities like those that often are vested in vocational teachers. They are responsible both for the day-to-day work of provision…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Higher Education, Administrator Role
Dymock, Darryl; Billett, Stephen – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2010
Governments are currently mobilising their national workforces to compete effectively in a globalised economy where being export-effective and import-competitive are necessary to secure national economic and social goals. Australia is no exception here. Yet, in this country, as in others, similar mobilisations occurred in earlier times, most…
Descriptors: War, Foreign Countries, Labor Force Development, Educational History
New York State Office of the Comptroller, Albany. Div. of Management Audit. – 1996
Selected practices relating to New York's Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) program during the 1993 JTPA program year were audited to determine the following: whether service delivery areas (SDAs) are providing training in occupations for which future growth is expected, whether SDAs award contracts on a competitive basis, and whether…
Descriptors: Audits (Verification), Contracts, Educational Legislation, Employment Programs
Rezabek, Dale J.; Saul, A. Christine – 1986
A study examined five local work training programs in California that have combined resources from both the federal Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) and the public education system. The programs studied are located in San Diego County (Ramona), Montebello, San Francisco (Chinatown), Shasta County, and southeast Los Angeles County. In these…
Descriptors: Cooperative Planning, Coordination, Educational Cooperation, Educational Objectives
Copeland, D. R.; And Others – 1975
The report provides a description of the Phase II findings of a two-phase study to determine if certain Marine Corps skill training requirements could be satisfied through contract with qualified commercial sources. It demonstrates the utility of the commercial contract training concept and contains information useful to Area VOTEC…
Descriptors: Educational Programs, Instructional Programs, Job Skills, Job Training
Eadie, Douglas C. – 1988
Intended to teach local elected officials (LEOs) how to increase their involvement in job training and other human resource programs, this document argues that elected county officials can use strategic issues management (SIM) to assert stronger leadership and to use Private Industry Councils (PICs) more fully as a resource for the delivery of…
Descriptors: Community Services, County Officials, Job Placement, Job Training
Illinois State Commission on Intergovernmental Cooperation, Springfield. – 1987
This report explores the organization and administration of the education for employment delivery system in Illinois. Problems central to service delivery in Illinois are identified in such key areas as intake, assessment and follow-up practices, gaps in services and duplicative services and regional and local planning boundaries. Legislative…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Delivery Systems, Dislocated Workers, Economically Disadvantaged
Duscha, Steve; Graves, Wanda Lee – 1999
This document describes customized, employer-specific training programs for incumbent workers and new hires operated in 45 states. Unlike federal programs, state programs are economic tools to attract and retain jobs; are employer-, not worker-centered; have few requirements for targeting individuals; and train incumbent workers for new jobs or…
Descriptors: Government Role, Government School Relationship, Inplant Programs, Instructional Student Costs
Suchorski, Joan M. – 1987
One of the most significant developments in higher education over the past decade has been the increased linkages between colleges and other organizations and institutions. A prominent and fast-growing form of linkage is contract training. Contract training refers to an arrangement in which a business, a government agency, or a community…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Contract Training, Economic Development, Educational Trends
Coalition of Indian Controlled School Boards, Inc., Denver, CO. – 1977
Proceedings are presented of a three-day national conference for providing members of the Indian community with information concerning opportunities for Indians under the new vocational education legislation. Brief summaries of addresses delivered during the general sessions are provided in part 1 and include such subjects as developing vocational…
Descriptors: American Indian Reservations, American Indians, Conferences, Federal Legislation
McClure-Lundberg Associates, Washington, DC. – 1978
This booklet describes various aspects of the Skill Training Improvement Program (STIP) in Washington, Minnesota, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and California. Information concerning the funding, administration, coordination, specific activities developed, and effectiveness of the STIP program in each of the five States is provided. Also taken into…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Coordination, Educational Programs, Employers
Division of Manpower Development and Training. , BAVT. – 1971
This guide was prepared to assist administrators and directors of training in planning and operating programs to train or upgrade personnel in general household service occupations and special areas. Topics cover: (1) Purpose of the Training Program, (2) Planning the Program, which includes establishing the need, program objectives, and advisory…
Descriptors: Child Care, Course Content, Curriculum Guides, Home Management
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. National Security and International Affairs Div. – 1993
A review of the Army's troop schools found that the internal control weaknesses in the program first reported over 10 years ago still existed. Expenditures were not justified. Most justifications reviewed were not based on assessed performance deficiencies of individual soldiers, as required, and none documented that troop schools were the most…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Armed Forces, Cost Effectiveness, Costs
Ohio State Legislative Service Commission, Columbus. – 1996
Ohio's state-operated/state-supported job training and work force development programs were reviewed in response to a legislative mandate calling for development of a plan for administrative consolidation of those programs under the control of a single state agency. The review included examination of the following: history of federal and Ohio job…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Comparative Analysis, Coordination, Educational Change