A study of three Regional Development Agencies (RDAs) traced development of the skills element of their RES [Regional Economic Strategy] and their progress toward an action plan for skills to implement their strategic objectives. The process involved creating a forum on skills; producing a consultation draft skills strategy; and producing a final…

The current state of continuing vocational training in Central and Eastern European countries and its most important challenges were analyzed. The analysis found that the former continuing vocational training systems in these areas were characterized by generally low training levels and interdependence among the state-owned enterprises that…

A growing percentage of the U.S. work force depends upon entrepreneurial skills and behaviors to succeed in the new opportunity economy. The explosion of technology, accelerating need for new and different products, globalization of business, and demand for speed in delivery have shifted the economic driving force toward companies that can meet…

Based on a meeting of the Legislative Higher Education Study Committee on January 1998, the State Board of Directors for Community Colleges and the Arizona Board of Regents formed a study committee to develop a system for identifying and meeting demonstrated needs statewide in relation to the development of an applied baccalaureate degree program.…

In November 1999, Governor Bob Taft requested that the Board of Regents annually produce a performance report for Ohio's state-supported colleges and universities. This year's report has been redesigned to improve its readability. This document is a small sampling of the 2003 Performance Report. This issue demonstrates the kind of useful…

The Council Activity Report is a communication from the chair of the Council on Postsecondary Education to the members of the governing boards of regents and trustees. The topics in this document are organized by the five questions and answers of postsecondary reform. The questions are: (1) Are more Kentukians ready for postsecondary education?…

The Annual Partnership Report is a collection of all established partnerships that Wyoming community colleges cultivated and maintained for fiscal year 2004. Serving as transfer preparation institutions, vocational educators, providers of workforce training and personal development education, and cultural centers, Wyoming comprehensive community…

State of the South 2004 is the fifth edition in North Carolina Manpower Development Corporation MDC's State of the South series, which examines the region's economic and demographic landscape and how Southerners are faring within it. This edition considers the region through the lens of public education, 50 years after the Supreme Court?s Brown…

Rural manpower programs are reviewed. (MS)

New York police, fire fighters prepare for postretirement careers as nurses. (Editor)

Debates the notion that a nation's system of higher education should be managed according to manpower needs in the economy. Suggests that the traditional free-choice principle in which education responds to student choice should be retained. Also touches on who should bear the financial burden of higher education. (Author/DN)

Training of professionals and technicians should be means to an end, not an end in itself. (Editor)

Health occupations education clearly has a dual role: to help bring health education and health care to the poor, disabled and disadvantaged and to open up opportunities for them to become members of the health service team. (Editor)

Dental health needs of the country cannot be met through education of more dentists. Rather, we must educate auxiliaries to perform many of the intraoral procedures now regarded the sole responsibility of dentists. (SB)

The 1972 Manpower Report of the President examines joblessness among the nations's 16- to 19-year-olds. (Editor)