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Sara Rodríguez-Pérez; Daniel Barrientos-Sánchez; Mónica Torres-Sánchez; Pilar Pineda-Herrero – Education & Training, 2024
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to provide a comprehensive description and analysis of quality levels with regard to dual Vocational Education and Training (VET) at companies participating in this programme in Spain, with a specific focus on company size. Design/methodology/approach: The study is based on a quantitative cross-sectional…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Organization Size (Groups), Vocational Education, Apprenticeships
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Fabian, Khristin; Taylor-Smith, Ella; Smith, Sally; Bratton, Andrew – Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning, 2023
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to gain insight into the degree apprenticeship labour market and employers' strategies for apprenticeship recruitment using job advertisement data. Specifically, this study identifies the skills, attributes, experience and qualifications that employers look for in IT apprentices. The study also identifies the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Advertising, Occupational Information, Content Analysis
Ositelu, Monique O. – New America, 2021
Policymakers are interested in extending federal higher education dollars to programs fewer than 15 weeks. This analysis shares key facts about the outcomes and equity implications of very-short-term (15 weeks or fewer) programs. This analysis of nationally representative survey data from the Adult Training and Education Survey, combined with…
Descriptors: Credentials, Program Length, Program Effectiveness, Education Work Relationship
Harris, William E. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
A well-built manufacturing industry is essential to a nation's economic affluence and improved economic conditions. The problem addressed in this study involves inadequate training preparedness programs which lead to several unfilled jobs in the manufacturing industry. By providing appropriate educational programs and industry-specific training,…
Descriptors: School Business Relationship, Labor Force Development, Education Work Relationship, Work Experience Programs
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Hartley, Maurice P. – Workplace Education, 1983
Discusses the theoretical foundation for experiential learning, provides an overview of cooperative education and experiential models, and identifies some professional resources for developing or expanding experience-based learning opportunities. (Available from W. C. Publications Inc., P.O. Box 1578, Montclair, NJ 07042.) (NJ)
Descriptors: Cooperative Education, Education Work Relationship, Employment Experience, Experiential Learning
Fredericks, H. D. Bud; And Others – 1985
A high school program to prepare severely handicapped students for supported community work changed its original purpose, to develop jobs that would provide full time support work in the community after graduation, to include part-time possibilities. Advantages of incorporating part-time work include eliminating boredom and providing greater…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, High Schools, Job Skills, On the Job Training
Smeltzer, Preston E. – 1997
School-supervised work experience is suggested as part of the Wisconsin school-to-work program. This booklet is designed to inform school administrators, coordinating teachers, other educators, and parents about essential ingredients of high quality work-based education. It covers the following: (1) an introduction to workplace learning; (2) a…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Elementary Secondary Education, Integrated Curriculum, On the Job Training
Southard, Sherry G. – 1983
The internship program in technical communications at Oklahoma State University is a 3-credit-hour course that offers students an opportunity to apply the principles of technical communication learned in the classroom to an on-the-job situation. The prerequisites for the course are 9 hours of English and a course on intermediate…
Descriptors: Editing, Education Work Relationship, Higher Education, Internship Programs
Riehl, Wolfgang – Western European Education, 1990
Presents an approach to making practical on-the-job work experience of secondary school students part of instruction in social studies. Maintains that social studies classes can serve as a vehicle for students to gain social learning from their work experiences. Includes tables outlining the conceptual framework of this approach. (DB)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Education Work Relationship, Experiential Learning, Foreign Countries
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Kohler, Paula D. – Career Development for Exceptional Individuals, 1994
This study assessed the effects of a Brevard County (Florida) high school-based vocational training and community-based on-the-job training program called Brevard's Exceptional Students in Transition (BEST). Results indicated positive improvements in vocational skills and behaviors of participants in the BEST program. (JDD)
Descriptors: Community Programs, Cooperative Education, Disabilities, Education Work Relationship
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Lund, Kathryn A.; And Others – Teaching Exceptional Children, 1987
Job performance of disabled students can be monitored through: (1) student job reports (which emphasize self-analysis of on-the-job performance) and (2) job support groups (which focus on problem solving for employment situations). Both activities help students perceive the connection between work experience and school and help teachers intervene…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Education Work Relationship, Job Performance, On the Job Training
Wood, Susanne – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2004
Fully on-the-job training, the majority of which is conducted in the workplace as part of the normal experience of the employee, is perceived to offer benefits to apprentices/ trainees, employers and registered training organisations. This report finds fully on-the-job training is viewed by learners and registered training organisations as a good…
Descriptors: On the Job Training, Education Work Relationship, Workplace Literacy, Training Objectives
Klein, Steven G. – 1994
This report evaluated economic incentives for employer participation in a comprehensive school-to-work (STW) initiative. In general, the business, economic, and educational literature emphasizes quantifying the fiscal benefits of employer-sponsored training, although only qualitative outcomes are available for some programs. The literature…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Education Work Relationship, Employer Attitudes, Employment Practices
Harris, Roger; Willis, Peter; Simons, Michele – 1998
This report is an interpretative examination of on- and off-job sites as learning environments. It explores meanings that apprentices, workplace mentors, and technical and further education (TAFE) teachers develop and place on integrated training. Key insights from research on 32 apprentices, 21 host employers, and 6 TAFE teachers in South…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Constructivism (Learning), Education Work Relationship, Educational Environment
Thompson, Lawrence H. – 1988
The U.S. General Accounting Office studied the characteristics of individual participants in training provided by the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA), the kinds and intensity of services they received, and the occupations in which they were employed after leaving the program. Visits to 63 randomly selected service delivery areas provided…
Descriptors: Accountability, Adult Vocational Education, Education Work Relationship, Educational Assessment
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