The paper deals with the evaluation of specialists' professional training quality within the framework of intersectoral, transborder, public and private models of social partnership described in theories by foreign and Russian scientists. Special attention is paid to providing methodological grounds for cooperation between the total subjects…

Decades of career in adult education confirmed the author's assumption that adult learners possess lots of lived experiences, exhibit different learning styles and have immediate learning needs to fulfil. Some learners may be slow and take time to grasp information while others might be shy, introverts, lack confidence or extroverts who like to…

This book contains a compilation of papers presented at the International Conference on Education and New Developments (END 2018), organized by the World Institute for Advanced Research and Science (WIARS). Education, in our contemporary world, is a right since we are born. Every experience has a formative effect on the constitution of the human…

Human resource development is one of the theories guiding China's development of secondary vocational education. Secondary vocational education has always played a role in human resource training and development from the nation's founding to the present. In Chinese society today, however, there is a clear instrumentalist tendency in secondary…

This sourcebook deals with the basic work behaviors and vocational skills that should be targeted in a secondary level program for students with autism. A chapter titled "The Vocational Training Continuum" presents the theoretical basis for developing a continuum of vocational experiences needed by the autistic learner. It describes existing…

This report examines development of core skills training, including entrepreneurial and management skills. Section 1 identifies issues that focus the study: core skill priorities, mapping core skills in the vocational education and training (VET) systems in partner countries, delivery of core skills, and good practice in delivering core skills.…

This report summarizes a national state of the art study of job search training (JST) programs, namely, the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act, the Work Incentive Program, and the employment service. Special emphasis is placed on youth programs. An introductory chapter defines JST, provides a brief history of JST development, and assesses…

The document is an instructor's guide for a course on universal tool grinder operation. The course is designed to train people in making complicated machine setups and precision in the grinding operations and, although intended primarily for adult learners, it can be adapted for high school use. The guide is divided into three parts: (1) the…

This planning guide is intended to assist program planners and curriculum developers in selecting entrepreneurship materials that are appropriate for students at the secondary, postsecondary, or adult levels. The guide suggests the following five essential steps necessary for developing training programs: assessing the status of the situation,…

An instructional approach for high school students, based on employment opportunities, is described in four phases: exploring accounting jobs, the accounting cycle, job training, and job placement. (MS)

This instructor's manual contains activities for teaching students about the benefits derived from completing high school, sources of training for occupations, and information on finding job openings and on working part-time and full-time. It is designed for use in five periods in classes in prevocational education in South Carolina. The guide…

This publication is a resource for people who are involved in Australia's Framing the Future work-based learning project teams. It is a compendium that outlines project processes and provides useful hints and lessons learned by others through their experience. Six parts address the six steps in a project. Part 1, on the proposal, covers possible…

A visually-impaired 17-year-old was videotaped in a work setting before and after vocational training. The videotape was shown to 35 graduate students and student teachers, whose ratings of the student's vocational competence validated behavior changes (e.g., job task accuracy) resulting from the training as being clinically important. (Author/JDD)

Argues that headteachers in English secondary schools should be trained by specially devised training programs. The role of the headteacher and the content and form of the training programs are discussed. (RM)

Training issues can be examined from at least two perspectives: the structural level (macro-level) and the micro-level. Structural issues in the delivery of training include the following: absent or uneven corporate commitment, inadequate expenditures by businesses, degrees awarded by schools that do not guarantee skill mastery, poaching of…