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Lauer, Jim – Wisconsin Vocational Educator, 1984
Suggests ways that the Job Training Partnership Act can serve as a local labor force development tool. Besides assisting "hardcore unemployed," education can take a proactive role, keeping up with the technology and needs of business and industry. In return, business and industry must support education with state-of-the-art machinery and…
Descriptors: Adult Programs, Labor Force Development, Reentry Workers, Retraining
New York State Education Dept., Albany. Div. of Special Occupational Services. – 1973
The report presents a review of institutional manpower training programs conducted in the State during the 1973 Federal fiscal year. Two major manpower training objectives are used for the basis of the report: to provide education, supportive services, and training opportunities for unemployed and underemployed individuals and to provide education…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Disadvantaged, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Programs
Bendick, Marc, Jr.; Egan, Mary Lou – 1982
This working paper, part of a project on the applicability of the French training system in the United States, argues that a systematic national commitment to midcareer worker retraining is necessary for American prosperity and international economic competitiveness. Although findings of the early human capital theorists demonstrated that an…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Career Change, Federal Programs, Human Capital
Lynch, Edward; And Others – 1985
Macomb Community College (MCC) in Warren, Michigan, has a commitment to support business and industrial development, consequent employee retraining, and program design. In addition to helping workers in their retraining and/or relocation, the college provides systematic support in the development of basic skills. Occupational programs have tended…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, College Role, Community Colleges, Dislocated Workers
Daniels, C. E. J. – 1990
The Professional, Industrial, and Commercial Updating Programme (PICKUP) of the United Kingdom is aimed at improving the performance of British industry through the colleges. In Wales, PICKUP is part of the Welsh Office Education Department. Various factors have encouraged educational institutions to take on PICKUP work: the Education Reform Act…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Continuing Education, Distance Education, Educational Quality