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The Shortage of Skilled and Technical Workers; An Inquiry Into Selected Occupations in Short Supply.
Download full textFranke, Walter; Sobel, Irvin – 1968
The institutional arrangements through which workers are prepared and employed in selected occupations are examined to determine whether barriers to entry and employment are susceptible to elimination or reduction, and how labor shortages effect employers. It covers six occupations in the St. Louis and Chicago metropolitan areas: licensed…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations, Educational Programs, Employment Opportunities, Employment Patterns
Di Benedetto, Victoria; Ortiz, Rachel – 1997
The Women in Technology (WIT) program at Texas' El Paso Community College (EPCC) was established to recruit women into nontraditional occupations, offering technical education, services to help retain women, and community outreach efforts to help change attitudes. This report describes outcomes for the 1996-97 fiscal year, focusing on six WIT…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Attitude Change, Building Trades, Community Colleges
Heinz, Volker – Training Officer, 1979
Describes the education and training degree programs with government sponsorship operated by a large German chemical company for high school graduates in electronic data processing and mathematics, economics assistant, engineering assistant or fully qualified engineer, and additional staff training in various technologies, leadership, economics,…
Descriptors: Business Education, Chemical Industry, Engineering Education, Foreign Countries
Krueger, Carl – Education Commission of the States (NJ1), 2006
The transition to a knowledge-based economy is fueling the demand for well-educated, technically proficient workers--in all sectors, across a wide range of occupations and even for entry-level positions. New civic demands also call for a highly educated populace. Although more students today begin college than 20 years ago, greater proportions are…
Descriptors: High School Students, College Programs, College Curriculum, College Credits
Di Benedetto, Victoria; Ortiz, Rachel – 1995
Project Opportunity of the Women in Technology (WIT) program at Texas' El Paso Community College is designed to provide a bridge curriculum for women who choose to enter nontraditional vocational fields that furnishes marketable skills to low-income individuals, single parents, displaced homemakers, young pregnant women, and near-homeless women.…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Ancillary School Services, Career Exploration, Community Colleges
Oklahoma State Dept. of Vocational and Technical Education, Stillwater. Curriculum and Instructional Materials Center. – 1997
This module is the sixth in a series that is designed to help students achieve greater professional and personal success as power line technicians. Each module represents one or more complete units of instruction with components organized into one instructor and one student "package": the instructor's manual and the student workbook. The…
Descriptors: Career Education, Competency Based Education, Curriculum Guides, Electrical Systems
Oklahoma State Dept. of Vocational and Technical Education, Stillwater. Curriculum and Instructional Materials Center. – 1997
This module is the seventh in a series that is designed to help students achieve greater professional and personal success as power line technicians. Each module represents one or more complete units of instruction with components organized into one instructor and one student "package": the instructor's manual and the student workbook.…
Descriptors: Career Education, Competency Based Education, Curriculum Guides, Electrical Systems
Collins, Paul D. – 1983
Social problems are manifested earlier at home and particularly on the job by alienated, depressed, estranged, dissatisfied, poorly motivated employees who steal or are frequently absent. Some say the education of the young must be specialized to ensure productivity, but emphasis on job requirements seems to be a backward view. Education should be…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Allied Health Occupations, Business Education, Curriculum
South Carolina State Dept. of Education, Columbia. Office of Vocational Education. – 1989
This V-TECS (Vocational-Technical Consortium of States) Guide is an extension or continuation of the V-TECS catalog for the occupation of medical assistant. The guide is designed to help South Carolina teachers to promote the art of learning while teaching subject matter. The guide addresses the three domains of learning: psychomotor, cognitive,…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Behavioral Objectives, Clerical Occupations, Competency Based Education
Mason, Joan S. – 1990
This module is one of a series developed by Project TEAM (Technical Education Advancement Modules), a cooperative demonstration program for high technology training for unemployed, underemployed, and existing industrial employees needing upgrading. This module is a 3-hour overview course intended to develop competencies in the following job search…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Education, Course Content, Demonstration Programs
Carnevale, Anthony P.; And Others – 1990
This document, resulting from a 3-year study, provides an overview of technical training in the United States, examines the occupations and workers defined as technical, describes where and how technical training is produced and delivered, and discusses the connection between technical training and the strategic goals of the organization. The…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Cooperative Programs, Education Work Relationship, Employer Employee Relationship
Muskogee Independent School District, OK. – 1981
This booklet contains profiles of 15 persons working in jobs nontraditional for their sex in the vicinity of Muskogee, Oklahoma. The one-page profiles are all written by the persons holding the jobs and include such information as educational background, job searches, acceptance on the job, and future plans. Photographs of each person on the job…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Biographical Inventories, Blue Collar Occupations, Career Choice
Connecticut State Board of Higher Education, Hartford. – 1985
Information on job openings for college graduates in Connecticut is provided. Projected openings in the state for 1985-1990 are indicated for nine major occupational categories: clerical workers, service workers, operatives, professional/technical occupations, crafts and kindred workers, sales workers, managers/officials/proprietors, laborers, and…
Descriptors: Clerical Occupations, College Graduates, Demand Occupations, Education Work Relationship
Bureau of Labor Statistics (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1979
"Exploring Careers" is a career education resource program, published in fifteen separate booklets, for junior high school-age students. It provides information about the world of work and offers its readers a way of learning about themselves and relating that information to career choices. The publications aim to build career awareness by means…
Descriptors: Administration, Banking, Career Awareness, Career Choice
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1978
This collection of abstacts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 16 titles deal with the following topics: a comparison of social science textbooks with student reading levels; the correlation between eighth graders' reading ability and their comprehension of content textbooks; the effects of…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Annotated Bibliographies, Content Area Reading, Doctoral Dissertations
