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Download full textERIC Clearinghouse on Counseling and Personnel Services, Ann Arbor, MI. – 1979
The unemployment of youth and adults has surfaced as a problem and a challenge to Asian Third World governments. Industry and business continue to experience a shortage of skilled and technical manpower. A manpower development conference was held in the Philippines on topics which included: (1) the role of private educational institutions in…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Guidance, Community Programs, Foreign Countries
Whetzel, Deborah – 1992
In 1990, Elizabeth Dole, then Secretary of the Department of Labor, established the Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS) to determine the skills that youths need to participate in the workplace and the skill levels that entry-level jobs require. SCANS determined that workplace skills consist of foundation skills and…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Competence, Employment Qualifications, High School Graduates
