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Marlissa Omar; Fathiyah Mohd Kamaruzaman – Journal of Education and Learning (EduLearn), 2024
Technical and vocational education training (TVET) is an education and training process with a strong emphasis on industry practices that aims to generate competent workers in particular fields. Collaboration with industry in TVET has the potential to improve the quality and relevance of TVET programmes and equip students with the practical skills…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Industry, School Business Relationship, Journal Articles
Charkasova, Aynur – American Association for Adult and Continuing Education, 2021
The demand for U.S. temporary workers has doubled since the 1990s, especially after the technology boom. American employers have benefited from hiring foreign talent for STEM occupations. Despite the mandatory prevailing wage regulations, temporary skilled immigrants have been criticized for their "willingness" to work for lower wages.…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Salary Wage Differentials, Skilled Workers, Science Careers
Spöttl, Georg; Windelband, Lars – Journal of Education and Work, 2021
Within the context of 'Industry 4.0', work organisation and work processes will change, along with ongoing automation and real-time oriented control of production. The same is true for work contents and the interaction and communication between humans and technology, which entail many consequences for users and providers throughout the entire…
Descriptors: Job Skills, Industrialization, Vocational Education, Automation
Yawson, Robert M. – Career and Technical Education Research, 2017
As nanotechnology continues to advance in food and agriculture, there is the need for pragmatic decisions as to how to prepare the workforce. A comprehensive systematic evidence review (SER) and analysis of the literature to identify skill needs for the emerging agrifood nanotechnology sector and to determine how agricultural education can…
Descriptors: Skill Analysis, Needs Assessment, Job Skills, Agricultural Occupations
Asghar, Waheed; Shah, Iftkhar Hussain; Akhtar, Naeem – International Journal of Training Research, 2016
The focus of this paper is "dual" apprenticeship training, which involves both on-the-job and institutional training. Apprentices receive training both within the companies to which they are apprenticed and within state-run, vocational institutes. The cost of training under this system is mainly borne by the employer, which has given…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Literature Reviews, Cost Effectiveness, On the Job Training
Walker, Martyn – Educational Studies, 2013
Historians and educationalists have often assumed that working-class adult education emerged at the beginning of the twentieth century with the introduction of state-funded technical colleges. This was not the case. In 1823, the Glasgow Mechanics' Institute was opened and within a few years similar institutions were being established across the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Adult Education, Program Effectiveness
Nicole Sarkis; Lillian Mwanri – Health Education, 2014
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to discuss innovative ways of addressing human resources for health (HRH) shortage in the Pacific, supported by a review of the literature and the Pacific Open Learning Health Network (POLHN), a programme created in response to the Pacific's HRH concern. Design/methodology/approach: A systematic search was…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Human Resources, Labor Supply, Labor Force Development
US Department of the Treasury, 2012
This report discusses the current state of higher education, with a brief high-level overview of the market and a more detailed discussion and analysis of the financial aid system. It also discusses the important changes President Obama has made to make higher education more accessible and affordable. The key findings are: (1) The economic returns…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Research Reports, Educational Assessment, Educational Indicators
Bridgeland, John; Bruce, Mary – College Board Advocacy & Policy Center, 2011
Across the country, large numbers of young people are dreaming about and planning on attending college. A poll released in 2005 showed that 87 percent of all young people want to go to college. Often, however, parents' and students' dreams for the future are not being realized. Many young people never enroll in a postsecondary institution, and of…
Descriptors: Expertise, Credentials, Labor Market, Skilled Workers
Taylor, Lloyd J., III; Poyner, Ilene – Journal of European Industrial Training, 2008
Purpose: This study aims to investigate the problem of trained employee retention in a highly competitive labor market for a manufacturing facility in the oilfields of West Texas. Design/methodology/approach: This article examines how one manufacturing facility should be able to retain their trained employees by using the logic of Eliyahu M.…
Descriptors: Employees, Skilled Workers, Labor Turnover, Competition
Russell, Russ – Transition from Education through Employment, 1991
A review of three recent publications leads to the conclusion that Britain should (1) adopt the German two-tier system of skilled workers and master workers, a status distinction that can be applied in blue- and white-collar occupations; and (2) train workers through apprenticeships. (SK)
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Foreign Countries, Job Training, Labor Force Development
Center for Law and Social Policy CLASP, 2005
The Higher Education Act (HEA) can be a key part of the solution to the coming "skills gap" resulting from the lack of skilled workers with postsecondary education entering the workforce. HEA should be modernized to support economic development, meet the needs of businesses and workers, and assist the growing number of "nontraditional"…
Descriptors: Skilled Workers, Federal Aid, Educational Policy, Economic Development
Oppman, Ernest – Workforce, 1992
Despite myths and stereotypes about older workers, demographic trends suggest that they are an essential part of the work force. Older workers are capable of retraining with techniques modified to meet their unique needs. (SK)
Descriptors: Job Layoff, Job Skills, Labor Needs, Older Adults

Ronen, Simcha; Sadan, Simcha – Work and Occupations: An International Sociological Journal, 1984
An economic model is applied to employee attitudinal variables to compare the contribution of intrinsic and extrinsic factors to job satisfaction for skilled workers and managers in an electronics manufacturing organization. Intrinsic rewards are found to increase in importance as employment level increases, suggesting different frames of…
Descriptors: Administrators, Compensation (Remuneration), Employee Attitudes, Employment Level

Keane, Patrick – Studies in the Education of Adults, 1992
This literature review shows that independent learning and self-improvement were promoted in early nineteenth-century Canada. However, learner autonomy in the working classes faltered in the face of lack of resources and political opposition. (SK)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Educational History, Foreign Countries, Independent Study