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Ball, Joseph; And Others – 1979
The Youth Incentive Entitlement Pilot Projects were set up to aid disadvantaged youths, ages 16 to 19, guaranteeing them a part-time job during the school year and a full-time job during summer months on the condition that they remain in, or return to, a secondary school or enroll in an equivalency education program. It was started in January,…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropout Prevention, Dropouts
Bowen, Uvelia S. A. – 1970
The guide presents the policies of the Household Employment Association for Reevaluation and Training (HEART) for upgrading the status of household employment. An overview is given of the association's methods of recruitment, training (in its licensed, private trade school), community education, job development, and post-placement counseling. The…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Ancillary School Services, Career Counseling, Employee Responsibility
Feingold, S. Norman – Counselor's Information Service, 1976
There are many possible directions that can be taken to open equal opportunity to all who want work, especially for the handicapped. Since more service-producing industries are expected to grow in the future than goods-producing industries, and accurate job forecasting is good but must be accompanied by adequate education and training, the growth…
Descriptors: Accountability, Affirmative Action, Career Education, Disabilities
Miller, Cynthia; Bos, Johannes M.; Porter, Kristin E.; Tseng, Fannie M.; Abe, Yasuyo – MDRC, 2005
Succeeding in the labor market depends now more than ever on having the right education and training. This reality poses a particular challenge for out-of-school youth, who are no longer connected to institutions designed to provide them with training and connect them to good jobs. The Center for Employment Training (CET) in San Jose, California,…
Descriptors: Credentials, Out of School Youth, Labor Market, Job Training
Miller, Steven K. – 2001
The United Nations (UN) General Assembly has mandated the Youth Employment Network, an initiative to address youth unemployment. Policy recommendations have been finalized, including an ambitious political process now being put into place. It invites heads of state and government to develop national action plans with targets for job creation and…
Descriptors: Developed Nations, Developing Nations, Economic Development, Educational Finance
Block, Richard N., Ed. – 2003
This book is an analysis of the relationship among collective bargaining (CB), firm competitiveness, and employment protection/creation in the United States (U.S.). Comparisons are also made between the U.S. situation and that in Europe. "Collective Bargaining in Context" (Richard N. Block, Peter Berg) places the US system of industrial…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adults, Business, Case Studies
Dif, M'Hamed – 2000
Introduced in 1971, the French "Continuing Vocational Training (CVT)" system was designed to promote workers'"socio-professional promotion." The contribution of its induced mobility to the fulfillment of this objective has always been considered as one of its key performance indicators. Outcomes of the CVT over the last 3…
Descriptors: Adults, Career Change, Career Ladders, Employee Attitudes

Desfosses, Louis R. – CUPA Journal, 1996
Planning and management strategies used in the private sector have practical applications for higher education in a period of systemic and organizational stress. Promising strategies include organizational delayering; employee empowerment; boundless thinking, problem-solving teams; accelerated processes; quality management and improvement; and…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, College Administration, Educational Trends, Goal Orientation
Schaeffer, Esther F.; And Others – 1994
U.S. business, labor, and public policy representatives visited Denmark, Sweden, and Switzerland to study the roles of their counterparts in school-to-work systems. They identified these common strengths: education viewed as an economic investment tool by all partners; strong partnerships of business, labor, and government; voluntary national,…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Developed Nations, Economic Development, Education Work Relationship
Career Resources Development Center, Inc., San Francisco, CA. – 1994
A model for bilingual vocational training of health care workers, designed for immigrants and refugees with limited English skills, is presented. The model's seven components include: recruitment; intake assessment; adapted vocational instruction; Vocational English as a Second Language (VESL); counseling and support services; job development and…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Bilingual Education, Classroom Techniques, Immigrants
Gapper, John – EQW Issues, 1992
Predictions of occupational growth to the year 2000 show how important the "new crafts" are becoming. Workers who possess the new crafts perform jobs that often involve sophisticated technical knowledge but are not done by people with bachelor's degrees. The growth of technical jobs in the middle of organizations threatens the familiar division…
Descriptors: Career Change, Educational Change, Emerging Occupations, Employment Practices
Rothstein, Frances R.; Ratte, Donna J. – 1990
Age-related changes in functional ability and work attitude affect job performance, but many variables affect the extent and timing of change for different older workers. Declines due to age occur in sensory/perceptual processes; strength, speed and accuracy of movement, and balance; and cognitive processes. Individuals can compensate for some…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Development, Adult Education, Adult Learning
Vera Inst. of Justice, New York, NY. – 1980
This guide explains how to establish a program of supported work that can be used to enable hard-to-employ individuals (including disabled persons, ex-offenders, and rehabilitated drug and alcohol abusers) to obtain and retain jobs. The program described is based on the following five concepts: real job assignments, graduated stress, sympathetic…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Career Counseling, Counseling Techniques, Employment Counselors
Gurwitz, Aaron – 1983
A study assessed the potential development of service sectors in different cities throughout the country and compared the results of growth in these and other sectors with respect to their effects on (1) total employment; (2) the geographic dispersion of metropolitan employment; (3) central city fiscal capacity; (4) metropolitan cyclical…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Economic Development, Employment Level, Employment Opportunities
Cambridge Office of Manpower Affairs, MA. – 1980
In 1979, Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) legislation was changed to remove income from the eligibility criteria for Title IIC upgrading and retraining programs. In order to assess the impact of this change upon CETA prime sponsor and private industry council (PIC) activities across the country, a telephone survey was made to all…
Descriptors: Adults, Career Change, Case Studies, Employment Opportunities