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Streitwieser, Bernhard, Ed. – Symposium Books, 2014
Continuous and rapid developments in global higher education today more than ever before present new questions, greater challenges, and vast new opportunities for institutions, policy makers, scholars and students alike. This book is a collection of studies and essays by many of the leading experts in international higher education who share their…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Higher Education, Student Mobility, Comparative Education
United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1913
The people of the United States are greatly interested in the German systems of industrial and trade education. There is a large demand for information in regard to the general policies of German cities and States in regard to such education, and also for information in regard to schools for special trades. To meet this demand, this bulletin…
Descriptors: Trade and Industrial Education, Skilled Workers, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy
Beaulieu, Lionel J., Ed.; Gibbs, Robert, Ed. – Southern Rural Development Center, Mississippi State University, 2005
Today's rural leaders are becoming increasingly attuned to the fact that high achieving schools and related human capital investment strategies are key ingredients in the promotion of sustainable development at the local level. Serious challenges often await rural areas that seek to pursue such efforts. As a case in point, if rural schools are…
Descriptors: Role of Education, Skilled Workers, Sustainable Development, Talent
Makinen, Raimo, Ed.; Taalas, Matti, Ed. – 1993
This publication consists of 14 selected papers prepared for an international workshop on the problems and relationship between producing vocational competencies for skilled-worker level occupations and controlling and certifying these competencies. Part I outlines the production life and labor market contexts of vocational training and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Competency Based Education, Developed Nations, Educational Certificates
Employment and Training Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. Bureau of Apprenticeship and Training. – 1989
This document contains executive summaries that report on short-term projects undertaken as part of the U.S. Department of Labor's Apprenticeship 2000 initiative, the purpose of which is to determine the future role of apprenticeship in meeting needs for a skilled work force. The 13 studies are on the following subjects: (1) issues relating to…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Apprenticeships, Career Counseling, Education Work Relationship