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Download full textShubird, Ernest – 1990
This manual provides guidelines for promoting adult vocational programs in order to obtain increased funding, expand program offerings, attract more students, and develop and conduct customized training. The publication is organized in seven chapters. Chapter 1 discusses briefly the history of adult vocational training, reviews its purposes,…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Adult Vocational Education, Contract Training, Corporate Education
Vocational Training, 1990
The eight articles in this theme issue of CEDEFOP's twice-yearly multi-lingual bulletin focus on continuing education to maintain and upgrade the workforce. "Force--The Community's Action Programme for the Continuing Training in the 1990s" describes the objectives of this new program to improve the skill levels of the European…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Continuing Education, Developed Nations, Educational Development
Indian Hills Community Coll., Ottumwa, IA. – 1991
A program at Indian Hills Community College (Ottumwa, Iowa) consisted of a sex equity component aimed to prepare women to enter nontraditional occupations and a building trades component to enable electrical workers to upgrade their skills. Both of the targeted groups underwent assessment and upgrading coordinated through the college's SUCCESS…
Descriptors: Building Trades, College Programs, Demonstration Programs, Electrical Occupations
Moock, Lynn D. – 1983
The Area Consortium on Training initiated the Training for Technology Project to fill industry needs for skilled personnel and job needs for economically disadvantaged persons. Major accomplishments included establishment of a training team for economic development and for development of training programs; contacting of more than 100 employers;…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Agency Cooperation, Cooperative Programs, Coordination
Ashmore, M. Catherine; Pritz, Sandra G. – 1983
This individualized, competency-based unit on dealing with legal issues, the ninth of 18 modules, is on the third level of the revised Program for Acquiring Competence in Entrepreneurship (PACE). Intended for the advanced secondary and postsecondary levels and for adults wanting training or retraining, this unit, together with the other materials…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Behavioral Objectives, Business Administration, Business Education
Ashmore, M. Catherine; Pritz, Sandra G. – 1983
This individualized, competency-based unit on promoting business, the 13th of 18 modules, is on the third level of the revised Program for Acquiring Competence in Entrepreneurship (PACE). Intended for the advanced secondary and postsecondary levels and for adults wanting training or retraining, this unit, together with the other materials at this…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Advertising, Behavioral Objectives, Business Administration
Ashmore, M. Catherine; Pritz, Sandra G. – 1983
This individualized, competency-based unit on managing finances, the 16th of 18 modules, is on the third level of the revised Program for Acquiring Competence in Entrepreneurship (PACE). Intended for the advanced secondary and postsecondary levels and for adults wanting training or retraining, this unit, together with the other materials at this…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Behavioral Objectives, Business Administration, Business Education
Braid, Mary; Macaskill, Sandra, Ed. – 1990
Workplace education (WPE) has a significant role to play in solving basic skills problems and in other training requirements. In addition to the benefit of a more able, adaptable work force, WPE leads to more contented workers, encouraged by better employment opportunities. In addition, employees benefit by being more confident both within the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills
Charner, Ivan; Fraser, Bryna Shore – 1986
More than 2 million adults participate in programs provided by elementary and secondary schools, almost 8.5 million adults receive training from postsecondary schools, nearly 4.5 million participate in private employer-provided programs, and government agencies account for almost 4.5 million adult participants. Demographic data suggest that young,…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Career Change, Demography
Davis, Ronald M. – 1984
As mathematics instruction in two-year colleges enters the late 1980's and 1990's, two major concerns will come to the forefront. The first is retraining faculty to ensure the provision of instruction relevant to the needs of two-year college students. Retaining this relevancy involves two aspects: faculty must acquire new knowledge in order to…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Mathematics, Community Colleges, Curriculum Development
Martin, Philip L.; Olmstead, Alan L. – 1988
This report is an overview of the current status of farmers in the U.S. economy, with an emphasis on the characteristics of displaced farmers, the reasons for their displacement, the effects of their displacement on the economy, and some policy recommendations for the future. Following an executive summary, the report is organized in five…
Descriptors: Adults, Dislocated Workers, Employment Programs, Farm Management
Souviney, Randall; And Others – 1984
In San Diego and Imperial Counties (California) all high schools now require between 2 and 3 years of mathematics of their students. This represents almost a doubling of the minimum mathematics requirements in the last 2 years. While the requirements have been increasing, the availability of qualified secondary mathematics teachers has been…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Educational Improvement, Educational Innovation, High Schools
Baldwin, Roger G. – Administrator's Update, 1982
Types of initiatives that colleges have implemented to foster continuing faculty career growth and the major attributes essential to success of the efforts are considered. The role of administrators in supporting faculty growth and vitality is also addressed. Several colleges and universities encourage career planning activities in which faculty…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Career Change, Career Planning, Faculty College Relationship
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1985
This Congressional report contains the testimony presented at a hearing focusing on two bills dealing with worker retraining. The two bills, H.R. 26 and H.R. 1219, are intended to establish a system of individual training accounts in the Unemployment Trust Fund, amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to provide that certain contributions to such…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Dislocated Workers, Educational Finance, Educational Legislation
HOOS, IDA R. – 1967
IN 1963, PROGRAMS WERE PROVIDED IN THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, UNDER MDTA, ALL BUT ONE (HOSPITAL ORDERLIES) BEING UNION SPONSORED. THE MILLMEN AND CABINET WORKERS' LAYOUT COURSE FOR JOURNEYMEN SEEKING CERTIFICATION INVOLVED 12 WEEKS OF THEORETICAL AND ON-THE-JOB TRAINING. THE PROGRAM FOR ORDERLIES AT KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITAL ENROLLED 12 MEN FOR…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Case Studies, Educational Background, Employment Experience
