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Canadian Vocational Journal, 1971
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Carpentry, Educational Improvement, Employment Opportunities
Hammer, Mary C.; Rohen, Terrence M. – Vocational Guidance Quarterly, 1971
For the group of trainees studied, results show that regardless of the length of the program, only marital status and education were found to differ significantly between the graduates and dropouts. Age, stability of employment and number of dependents were significant for long term programs; pretraining level of education for short term programs.…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Prevention, Dropouts
Christensen, Ethlyn – Issues in Industrial Society, 1971
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Employment Opportunities, Home Economics Education, Household Workers
Celovsky, Boris – Training In Business and Industry, 1972
Author carefully analyzes who stands to gain from employee training programs. This information will help government and private industry in the process of allocating and financing the training programs. (Editor/LF)
Descriptors: Economic Opportunities, Economic Progress, Human Resources, Industrial Training
Brown, T. Carl – American Vocational Journal, 1971
Descriptors: Federal Aid, Federal Legislation, Financial Support, Labor Force Development
Bobbitt, Frank – Agricultural Education, 1971
Educational programs for preparing hired farm labor are needed for retraining displaced farm workers for the skilled jobs of mechanized operations. (GB)
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Educational Needs, Farm Labor, Farm Occupations
Kintzer, Frederick C. – International Educational Cultural Exchange, 1970
Descriptors: Career Guidance, Educational Change, Educational Legislation, Higher Education
Clawson, Augusta H. – American Vocational Journal, 1970
How the experimental manpower programs served disadvantaged women and girls. (Editor)
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Educational Programs, Females, Labor Force Development
Goodman, F. V. S. – J Counc Ass Univ Stud Personnel Serv, 1969
Joint responsibility of education authorities and the Department of Manpower and Immigration is to accelerate research and to develop programs which will ease the process of adjustment to changing conditions in manpower demand. The inevitable prerequisite of closer matching of demand for and supply of qualified manpower is increased specialization…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Economic Development, Foreign Countries, Labor Force Development
Stone, Elizabeth – ALA Bull, 1969
A paper based on the author's Ph.D. dissertation, "A Study of Some Factors Related to the Professional Development of Librarians, which was submitted to American University in 1968. Data was obtained from a questionnaire sent to a stratified random sample of 138 librarians who graduated in 1956 and 1961 from accredited American library schools.…
Descriptors: Administration, Conferences, Inservice Education, Labor Force Development
Nadler, Leonard – Training Develop J, 1969
Descriptors: Business, Disadvantaged, Federal Legislation, Information Sources
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Rodenstein, Judith M. – Journal of Employment Counseling, 1982
Analyzed long-term influence of employment and training programs on labor force participation rate of CETA participants. Analyzed data collected from terminated CETA participants (N=225). Results indicated that enrollment in employment and training programs can lead to increased wages, and positive feelings about participation in the work force.…
Descriptors: Counseling Services, Employment Level, Employment Patterns, Job Placement
Fernau, Curt N. – Labour Education, 1983
Creating behavioral patterns adapted to the postindustrial era will be essential to all kinds of adult education toward the end of this century. In newly evolving social structures we must first and foremost learn how to adapt constantly to new situations and how to cope with new problems. (SSH)
Descriptors: Adult Programs, Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, Economic Progress
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Larkin, Paul G. – Community and Junior College Journal, 1983
Contrasts Bureau of Labor Statistics' employment forecasts with National Center of Educational Statistics' data on college graduation trends. Offers insights regarding the core of science and math skills needed for using new technologies, changing work force distribution and delivery systems, and funding and faculty shortages. (DMM)
Descriptors: College Role, Community Colleges, Educational Change, Futures (of Society)
Olson, Lawrence – Training and Development Journal, 1983
The author argues that the American labor market is in the midst of historic transition that will challenge human resource development professionals. Sweeping demographic changes will soon combine with a "Second Industrial Revolution" in technology and a quantum leap in the level and quality of foreign competition to raise sharply the importance…
Descriptors: International Relations, Job Training, Labor Force Development, Labor Market
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