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Download full textHendra, Richard; Greenberg, David H.; Hamilton, Gayle; Oppenheim, Ari; Pennington, Alexandra; Schaberg, Kelsey; Tessler, Betsy L. – MDRC, 2016
This report summarizes the two-year findings of a rigorous random assignment evaluation of the WorkAdvance model, a sectoral training and advancement initiative. Launched in 2011, WorkAdvance goes beyond the previous generation of employment programs by introducing demand-driven skills training and a focus on jobs that have career pathways. The…
Descriptors: Employment Programs, Labor Force Development, Demonstration Programs, Program Evaluation
Anderson, Lexi – Education Commission of the States, 2015
States are introducing and enacting an increasing number of bills targeted toward workforce development and career and technical education. The increase in legislation illustrates a shift toward creating collaborations between higher education institutions and employers in the state as one strategy to enhance workforce development and…
Descriptors: Labor Force Development, Educational Policy, Vocational Education, State Legislation
Ohio Department of Higher Education, 2015
This report identifies the most relevant considerations adults have when assessing options to pursue higher education. The report further details what factors institutions of higher education need to consider in order to successfully attract, enroll, retain and graduate adult student populations. The report also highlights why the increased…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Success, Higher Education, Student Needs
Peer reviewedGermuth, Amy A. – Journal of Interdisciplinary Teacher Leadership, 2018
In 2015 WakeEd Partnership and Wake County Public School System (WCPSS), North Carolina's largest school system, designed an engaging, results-oriented professional development opportunity for elementary and secondary educators -- SummerSTEM. SummerSTEM is a hands-on professional development experience that addresses the needs of educators --…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, STEM Education
Direct linkPrins, Esther; Clymer, Carol – COABE Journal: The Resource for Adult Education, 2018
Many adult education providers are developing career pathways (CP) programs, which are viewed as an important workforce development and poverty alleviation strategy in the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, by state and local governments, and by private funders. Based on a three-year researcher-practitioner partnership, this paper uses…
Descriptors: Adult Educators, Career Development, Academic Support Services, Federal Legislation
Larrivee, Linda S.; Chalupka, Stephanie M.; Cleary, Marilyn A.; Comeau, Cherie L. – Metropolitan Universities, 2018
Nationally, there is a great demand for systems that meet the needs of local employers as well as develop tools and training for their incumbent workers. Concurrently, demand for healthcare professionals is growing and projected to continue for the next decade. Worcester State University created the "Direct Care Workforce Development…
Descriptors: Allied Health Personnel, Caregivers, Barriers, Access to Education
Herberg, Jeremias – Center for Cities & Schools, 2018
This study provides a critical appraisal of intermediaries in demand-driven workforce development. In San Francisco East Bay, an emerging set of workforce intermediaries -- here called the "Skills Brokers" -- recently take issue in alleged Skills Gaps to create a cross-sector reform agenda. They seek to connect the supply and demand for…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Job Skills, Skill Development, Industry
Garcia, Rosa – Center for Law and Social Policy, Inc. (CLASP), 2018
The Higher Education Act (HEA) can promote connections to work by supporting linkages to career pathways that help youth and adults with barriers to employment obtain postsecondary credentials that lead to family-sustaining jobs with the potential for career advancement. HEA also has the potential to support partnerships between higher education,…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Higher Education, Career Development
Ansari, Fazel; Hold, Philipp; Mayrhofer, Walter; Schlund, Sebastian; Sihn, Wilfried – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2018
This paper explores the concept of mutual (reciprocal) learning as an enabler of the emergence of a collective human-machine intelligence across a smart factory. The interlinking of digital profiles of humans and machines permits the identification and measurement of learning outcomes through participating in and performing of (shared) tasks. To…
Descriptors: Measurement, Identification, Outcomes of Education, Artificial Intelligence
Maricopa Community Colleges, 2018
This Governing Board Monitoring Report utilizes the Board outcome metrics to gauge institutional effectiveness in the Maricopa County Community College District (MCCCD). Outcomes for University Transfer Education and General Education, Workforce and Economic Development, Developmental Education, and Community Development and Global and Civic…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Outcomes of Education, College Transfer Students, Labor Force Development
Jobs for the Future, 2018
Today, young people need both cross-cutting skills and specialized knowledge to thrive in the nation's rapidly changing economy. Business leaders require skilled talent to innovate and grow. And state and local communities need a workforce ready to lead new economies and industries. These shifts are achievable when states and regions embrace a…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, State Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
Mancini, Michael A.; Maynard, Brandy; Cooper-Sadlo, Shannon – Journal of Social Work Education, 2020
Recent workforce trends in healthcare point to a growing need to prepare social workers capable of providing integrated behavioral health care in multidisciplinary settings serving at-risk youth. This article reports on a project that involved the development and implementation of a graduate-level social work specialization focused on integrated…
Descriptors: Graduate Study, Social Work, Child Health, Children
Porta, Carolyn M.; Mann, Erin M.; Amiri, Rohina; Avery, Melissa D.; Azim, Sheba; Conway-Klaassen, Janice M.; Golzareh, Parvin; Joya, Mahdawi; Mwikarago, Emil Ivan; Nejabi, Mohammad Bashir; Olejniczak, Megan; Radhakrishnan, Raghu; Tengera, Olive; Thomas, Manuel S.; Weinkauf, Julia L.; Wiesner, Stephen M. – International Journal of Higher Education, 2020
Despite ongoing insecurity, Afghanistan has demonstrated improvement in health outcomes. Reasons for this success include a strategic public-private health service delivery model and investment in Afghan health care workforce development. Afghan universities have the primary responsibility for ensuring that an adequate health care workforce is…
Descriptors: Health Services, Public Health, Delivery Systems, Labor Force Development
Moreno, Vicente Garcia; Patrinos, Harry Anthony – World Bank, 2020
This paper estimates private and social returns to investment in education in Azerbaijan, using the 2015 Azerbaijan Monitoring Survey for Social Welfare. The private rate of return to education is 6 percent; this is the first estimate of returns to schooling in Azerbaijan since 1995. The returns to schooling are 6 percent for men and 8 percent for…
Descriptors: National Surveys, Higher Education, Educational Finance, Educational Policy
Business-Higher Education Forum, 2020
This report demonstrates the power of business-higher education partnerships to create new kinds of STEM pathways that provide educational opportunity and economic mobility for underrepresented students. With funding from the National Science Foundation in 2014, the Business-Higher Education Forum (BHEF) launched a five-year project to demonstrate…
Descriptors: STEM Education, School Business Relationship, Community Colleges, Colleges
