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Download full textBalogh, Judy A., Comp. – 1990
This directory lists 82 agencies, associations, and organizations that work with entrepreneurs or small business owners and those who might be responsible for educating and training entrepreneurs. Each entry provides the full name of the organization, the audience most likely to be served, the overall focus or purpose, and the services and…
Descriptors: Agencies, Business Administration, Entrepreneurship, Organizational Development
Krusemark, Dawn M. – 1990
This report pinpoints the need to upgrade workers' skills and the means for accomplishing this goal through the development of workplace learning programs (WPLPs). Labor supply and demographic trends that affect the nation's workplace are explored. An examination of training programs follows. General guidelines for establishing WPLPs, derived from…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Corporate Education, Educational Resources, Federal Legislation
Adult Literacy and Basic Skills Unit, London (England). – 1984
This guide is intended to assist individuals (including therapists, relatives and friends, and volunteer and paid tutors) who are attempting to help adults relearn communication skills lost through stroke or accident. The first section examines dysphasia and the needs of dysphasics in an attempt to help the layperson understand the causes of…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Aphasia, Case Studies, Communication Disorders
Tindall, Lloyd W.; And Others – 1984
This booklet is designed to provide ideas on how youth competencies in the areas of basic education, pre-employment and work maturity, and job-specific skills can be utilized to help disabled youth meet performance standards in programs funded under the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA). Discussed in the introductory section are the following…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Check Lists, Competency Based Education, Disabilities
Entrepreneurship Inst., Columbus, OH. – 1983
A conference dealing with new enterprise and economic development initiatives today, Project NEED IT was designed to familiarize decision makers at all levels of the public, private, and educational sectors with the best new enterprise development projects being carried out in the United States today. During the conference, a series of papers and…
Descriptors: Basic Business Education, Budgeting, Business Administration, Business Responsibility
Maine State Dept. of Labor, Augusta. – 1999
This handbook is designed to help Maine's citizens and business persons understand why work force development is important in Maine and how Maine's new work force development system will be organized to enable the state to implement the Workforce Investment Act. The following are among the topics discussed throughout the handbook: (1) the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Development, Career Education, Counseling Services
