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Wiem, Fred – Canadian Vocational Journal, 1991
Although technology eliminates jobs, it can save and create jobs as well. Technological change also affects the level of skills required of the labor force. Postsecondary institutions need to ensure that the highly educated, highly skilled, adaptable, and creative labor force demanded by employers is available. (JOW)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Foreign Countries, Labor Force Development, Lifelong Learning
Michigan Governor's Commission on Jobs and Economic Development, Lansing. – 1989
To provide a common frame of reference, the Michigan Employability Skills Task Force created a working construct of employability skill categories. The draft framework extended beyond academic competence to include interpersonal, group, and adaptability skills. After task force discussions, the initial five skill categories were compressed into…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Demand Occupations, Economic Development, Education Work Relationship
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
Bishop, John H. – 1995
The research literature on the preparation of young people for work proves that policy recommendations are based on two false premises--academic skills are good substitutes for occupation-specific skills and increases in job turnover and skill obsolescence rates have caused a decline in the return to occupation-specific training by schools.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, Cost Effectiveness, Education Work Relationship
Download full textVocational Training, 1990
The eight articles in this theme issue of CEDEFOP's twice-yearly multi-lingual bulletin focus on continuing education to maintain and upgrade the workforce. "Force--The Community's Action Programme for the Continuing Training in the 1990s" describes the objectives of this new program to improve the skill levels of the European…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Continuing Education, Developed Nations, Educational Development
National Governors' Association, Washington, DC. – 1992
This publication discusses reforms in lifelong learning undertaken in the 11 states represented on the National Governors' Association Action Team on Lifelong Learning. It is a catalog of initiatives to create greater opportunities for youth and adults to obtain skills needed to compete effectively in a global economy. The reforms discussed in…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Accountability, Adult Programs, Adult Vocational Education
