A design to provide core-skill training to enable 500 nonprofessionals to assume entry-level civil service positions in police, health and welfare, inspections, and housing and relocation work involves three phases. In the first phase, to last four weeks, trainees learn basic job skills through such methods as role playing and job simulation and…

A demonstration program, administered by a community based building maintenance, management, and construction corporation, was developed to provide technical training for minority adults in construction, building maintenance, and property management in the Chicago area. The program was concerned with seeking solutions to the lack of housing, job…

Modern school leaders may fed uncertainty in their feelings of satisfaction given the complex and changing nature of the principalship. Reforms in administrative preparation and training programs attempt to provide professional growth experiences that address evolving administrative expectations while universities and school districts strive to…

The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA) placed a lifetime capitation of five years on welfare benefits. This Bill consolidated welfare and employment programs into the block grant known as Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF). The benefit package allows operation of programs in accordance with…

In recent years there has been an increasing focus among states on the importance of preparing all students for college and work. Statewide administration of the ACT provides all students, including those who have never considered college as an option, with the opportunity to identify academic strengths and weaknesses, explore educational and…

Looking to put some of its community members--many of whom have seen their jobs evaporate amid a troubled economy--back to work, administrators at Berkshire Community College (BCC) in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, have committed as much as $200,000 in grant money to establish a new job corps that will give low-income or displaced workers free…

The relationship between training and the growth in wage inequality was examined through an analysis of data from the January 1983 and January 1991 supplements to the Current Population Survey. The analysis focused on whether the distribution of training has changed in ways that may explain changes in the wage structure during the period studied…

A questionnaire was distributed to 1,305 companies to study the basic skills training provided. Of 62 responses, 41 companies had basic skills training programs. Respondents represented these types of companies: communications and utilities, finance and insurance, manufacturing, wholesalers, retailers, health and hospitals, and mining, and had…

Variables related to job satisfaction are discussed, such as technical and social skills required, and a four-process model is described: in-selection, out-selection, socialization, and counter-socialization. (Author)

A significant amount of on-the-job occupational training is occurring in the private sector, though the data on its extent and nature are extremely sketchy. Estimates of total economic costs in the 1974-75 period range from a crude measure of 100 billion dollars to one that is somewhat more reliable of about 40 to 50 billion dollars. Most of this…

In this introductory work, the main principles on which British companies are basing management development programs are presented, and stages in assuring a supply of effective managerial talent are set forth: stages in assuring a supply of effective managerial t"lent are set forth: program planning based on clear objectives and…

The course outline has been prepared as a guide for the vocational student employed full time and enrolled in a cooperative education program in the area of his vocational objective. The 45-hour course is presented in nine instructional blocks: cooperative job description, identification of training agency organization, identification of training…

Unable to afford a standard vocational education program, a small town Michigan school enlists local business firms to fill the gap. (Editor)

Students developed methods of self instruction in a school where teachers did little teaching; helping each other was forbidden by school rule, but provided students with their major means of learning. (JB)

Paper is concerned with training within insurance and attempts to show the value of a systematic approach to on-the-job training and to examine the effectiveness of programmes constructed in such a manner. (Author)