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Thomas Gauthier – Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning, 2024
Purpose: American Community colleges are vital to the country's economic mobility and are leaders in developing and facilitating career, technical, and workforce education. This study explored employer perspectives on employees' common and specialized skills across industries in the United States. Design/methodology/approach: Employers were…
Descriptors: Skill Development, Job Skills, Education Work Relationship, Career Readiness
Trimboli, Daniella – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2023
Skilling Australia's current and future workforce is the theme for the 32nd National Vocational Education and Training (VET) Research Conference 'No Frills.' In keeping with the conference's theme, this discussion paper explores the resilience of the Australian VET sector and how it can continue to foster adaptability in the face of ongoing change.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Labor Force Development, Resilience (Psychology)
Cedefop - European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training, 2023
This report summarises the outcomes of the first (micro) phase of the thematic country review (TCR) on upskilling pathways in Italy. It reflects the perspectives of both the beneficiaries of the approaches considered and the actors involved in their implementation. The TCR focuses on outreach, guidance, tailored learning and on the crosscutting…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Job Skills, Skill Development, Unskilled Workers
US House of Representatives, 2024
This document records testimony from a hearing before the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, Secondary Education of the Committee on Education and the Workforce about preparing students for success in the skills-based economy. Opening statements were presented by: (1) Honorable Aaron Bean, Chairman, Subcommittee on Early Childhood,…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Employment Potential, Skill Development, Labor Force Development
Collins R. Nunyonameh; Elizabeth Obinnim; Eric Kodzo Adzivor – International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2024
Context: Faced with deep challenges with access to formal education, many West African countries are increasingly taking steps to reform their informal apprenticeship systems to make them a quality skills development alternative for their teeming youth. A review of the literature shows that although different countries in the region are deploying…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Apprenticeships, Educational Change, Nonformal Education
Bennell, Paul – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2023
This article critically reviews the World Bank's latest high-profile report on skills development in Sub-Saharan Africa. While the Report's prescriptions and recommendations are broadly in line with those of national skills development strategies elsewhere in both the developed and developing world, its overall analysis is quite limited and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Skill Development, Job Skills, Vocational Education
OECD Publishing, 2021
Germany has a strong skill development system. The country's 15-year-old students performed above the OECD average in the last (2018) edition of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), continuing a trend of significant improvement since PISA's first edition in 2000. Its adult population also has above-average literacy and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Continuing Education, Skill Development, Vocational Education
Lawrence, Timothy W. – COABE Journal: The Resource for Adult Education, 2020
This article provides the perspective of the executive director of a national education association as he retires after 19 years as a national workforce development thought leader. He provides insights including the essential skills required for all learners and the unique opportunities for adult learners to help fill the skills gap as baby…
Descriptors: Labor Force Development, Job Skills, Adult Students, Retirement
Haviland, 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
Jerry Block – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Career Technical Education (CTE) at the high school level is a sequence of courses that prepares students with the academic and technical knowledge and skills needed to either continue their studies or enter the workforce after high school (Gray & Lewis, 2018). While there is research regarding how high school CTE programs support academics,…
Descriptors: High School Students, Managerial Occupations, High Schools, Labor Force Development
Haviland, Sara B.; Robbins, Steven; Belur, Vinetha; Cherfrere, Gernissia; Klieger, David – Metropolitan Universities, 2021
Employers report struggles to find work-ready candidates who possess a desired combination of job-specific technical, general math and reading, and social and behavioral skills. Community colleges are ideally situated to address these shortages, delivering a trained local labor force and often collaborating directly with employers and regional…
Descriptors: Career Readiness, Job Skills, Soft Skills, Skill Development
Dudyrev, F. F.; Romanova, O. A.; Shabalin, A. I. – Russian Education & Society, 2019
The main goal of the secondary vocational education system is to fulfill the staffing needs of the Russian economy. The only way that we can effectively deliver on this objective is by ensuring there is a well-coordinated and stable system in place that allows vocational schools to cooperate with businesses. This article reviews how this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Secondary Education, High School Students
Chenoy, Dilip; Ghosh, Shobha Mishra; Shukla, Shiv Kumar – International Journal of Training Research, 2019
India is one of the fastest growing major economies and has a burgeoning young workforce. The average age in India will be 29 years by 2020. Given the limitations of absorbing growing labor force-- especially the unskilled and semi-skilled-- in service sector, focus has to be on spurring manufacturing growth to take advantage of this large pool of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Skill Development, Manufacturing Industry, Economic Development
Payton, Anna; Knight, Genevieve – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2018
In simple terms, it's about new ideas being put into practice, and it underpins human progress, while in economic terms it can drive long-term productivity growth (Australian Department of Industry, Innovation and Science 2017). The opportunities underpinning the largest growth 'will come from knowledge-intensive companies that innovate and…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Job Training, Foreign Countries, Job Skills
Bauman, Kevin; Christensen, Cody – American Enterprise Institute, 2018
Policymakers at the state and federal levels have expressed concern over the emerging "skills gap"--the mismatch between the job skills employers are looking for and the skills that applicants in the labor market possess. The skills gap is most acute for middle-skilled jobs; that is, jobs that require training beyond high school but less…
Descriptors: Skill Development, Labor Force Development, Efficiency, Federal Legislation