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Von Moltke, Konrad; Schneevoigt, Norbert – 1977
Educational leave policies--paid time-off from work for educational purposes--in France, Germany, Italy, and Sweden are compared and extensively analyzed, and also, to a lesser degree, the policies in Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands, Norway, and the United Kingdom. These analyses, intended to be relevant to the American scene in relation to…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Comparative Analysis, Educational Finance, Educational Policy
Wish, John R.; Hamilton, William D. – 1979
The viability of Freeman's Recursive Adjustment Model as a management tool for explaining and predicting enrollments and the job market is examined using macro and micro cases. To establish a relationship between college attendance and the college job market, Freeman employed a 3-equation model to analyze the causative supply and demand…
Descriptors: College Attendance, College Graduates, Conference Reports, Education Work Relationship
Hesselbart, Susan – 1978
The disproportionate focus of sociologists on professional and managerial occupations distorts many generalizations about gender, employment, and family. Concentration on this occupational minority has led to such assumptions as the following: paid employment is the major life priority for men, and family is the major life priority for women;…
Descriptors: Administrators, Comparative Analysis, Employed Women, Employment Patterns
Download full textCharner, Ivan; And Others – 1978
Tuition aid plans that are contained in negotiated labor contracts covering one thousand or more workers were analyzed to describe their characteristics, identify barriers to worker participation, and recognize the benefits of giving employees financial aid to pursue courses offered on or off company or union premises. Procedures included a review…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, Adults, Business
Casey, Florence M., Ed. – 1979
Using data from the fifteen-year National Longitudinal Study (NLS), a special study examined the interaction of work-related attitudes and subsequent behavior for eight age-sex-race groups. It was found that attitudes do influence subsequent work behavior. Specifically, it was established that individuals who felt they could influence their future…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Black Attitudes, Blacks, Employed Women
Public Health Service (DHEW), Rockville, MD. – 1965
ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY HEALTH PROFESSIONAL AND SUBPROFESSIONAL OCCUPATIONS ARE CLASSIFIED UNDER 35 BROADER OCCUPATIONAL CATEGORIES. ALTHOUGH SOME GAPS WERE UNAVOIDABLE, THE GOAL FOR ALL CATEGORIES WAS TO PRESENT STATISTICAL INFORMATION ON (1) THE NUMBERS OF HEALTH PERSONNEL AND THEIR LOCATION BY STATE, (2) GROWTH IN EMPLOYMENT SINCE 1950, (3)…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Degrees (Academic), Employment Statistics, Enrollment
Syracuse Univ., NY. ERIC Clearinghouse on Adult Education. – 1968
TWENTY-THREE ABSTRACTS AND ANNOTATIONS OF RECENT (1962-67) PUBLICATIONS ON ADULT EDUCATION IN AFRICA ARE PROVIDED IN THIS BIBLIOGRAPHY. EDUCATIONAL NEEDS AND POLICIES AND SPECIFIC NATIONAL AND INSTITUTIONAL PROGRAMS IN ETHIOPIA, TANZANIA, KENYA, MALAWI, ZAMBIA, RHODESIA, AND NIGERIA ARE FEATURED, WITH COMMUNITY AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT, MANPOWER…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Annotated Bibliographies, Community Development, Correspondence Study
Jordan, Daniel C. – 1967
If education is to keep up with social and technological change, teachers must be learning and developing at a rate similar to that of students, requiring the educational staff to render highly diverse and wide-ranging services. The basic strategy essential to such services is the development of differentiated staffing patterns which will allow…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Educational Change, Information Needs, Job Analysis
Arizona State Dept. of Health, Phoenix. Mental Retardation Section. – 1965
To help combat mental retardation, 136 recommendations are made for the following: establishment by statute of a division of mental retardation, an advisory council, and a coordinating council of agencies; changes in laws governing the Arizona Children's Colony, additional public school legislation, and a study of civil and criminal law; immediate…
Descriptors: Administration, Caseworkers, Educational Programs, Exceptional Child Services
Ruesink, David C.; And Others – 1968
Two papers are presented which were given before the Social Science Section of the 1968 Annual Conference of the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station. The first paper reports on the results of a research effort designed to identify factors associated with successful relocation of people from a rural or small community environment into large,…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Agricultural Laborers, Community Characteristics, Community Leaders
Steinberg, Sheldon S.; Fishman, Jacob R. – 1968
This manual is intended for use by trainers of teacher aides in New Careers programs (which focus on training the unemployed and/or underemployed for entry-level placement as nonprofessionals in human service occupations). An introductory chapter considers the qualifications of the training team, qualifications of the trainee, the function and job…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Career Opportunities, Curriculum, Disadvantaged
Hensel, James W. – 1968
The combined efforts of the U.S. Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Labor and the Office of Education in addition to those of agricultural educators and leaders were utilized to develop a long-range project for education in agriculture through determining employment opportunities and training needs in farming and off-farm agricultural business…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Agricultural Occupations, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development
Compact, 1968
Volume 2, Issue 3 of "Compact" was designed to point out the problems and potential of vocational-technical education and to offer some suggestions for action. Major content includes: (1) "Education for Twenty-First Century Employment," by Wayne Morse, (2) "Pending Federal Legislation Encourages Vocational Innovation," by Grant Venn, (3)…
Descriptors: Business, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Innovation, Educational Objectives
Mahlstede, John P.; Thomas, Robert W. – 1968
Eight research projects conducted by different investigators on research and development activities in vocational and technical education for non-metropolitan areas are reported. Report titles are: (1) The Decision Making Process of School Districts Regarding Vocational Education and Training Programs, (2) Occupational Problems and Vocational…
Descriptors: Agricultural Occupations, Career Choice, Decision Making, Dropouts
Kincaid, Harry V. – 1966
A mail questionnaire survey was made of employment, formal training, and the use of apprenticeships within the metalworking industry for the "growth occupations" of maintenance electrician, tool and die maker, electronic technician, maintenance mechanic, millwright, and welder. Over 2,400 metal working plants in the United States with 500 or more…
Descriptors: Adult Dropouts, Apprenticeships, Correspondence Study, Enrollment
