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Download full textSchirmer, Peter; Goetz, Stephan J. – 1996
New corporate practices and strategies, technological advances and rising job skill requirements are making postsecondary training a virtual necessity for a high-paying job. This is driving a wedge between the earnings of education "haves" and "have nots." Corporate restructuring is eliminating hundreds of thousands of jobs,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Change, Corporations, Dislocated Workers
Moore, Richard W.; Blake, Daniel R.; Phillips, G. Michael; McConaughy, Daniel – 2003
California's Employment Training Panel Program (ETP), the largest state-funded customized training program for incumbent workers in the nation, has had a positive impact on the economy of California, and its success has policy implications for other state programs. The impact of ETP on trainees includes the following: they are more attached to the…
Descriptors: Economic Impact, Employees, Employment Programs, Improvement Programs
EFF Voice, 2003
This issue comprises seven articles that share ways Equipped for the Future's (EFF's) partners are using EFF to help adults build the skills they need to be successful in the workforce. "Building and Certifying Work Readiness" discusses the Work Readiness Credential being developed that will define, measure, and certify that individuals…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Dislocated Workers, Education Work Relationship, Educational Certificates
Bailey, Thomas R.; Matsuzuka, Yukari – 2003
A study examined the impact of the Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program on efforts in academic and vocational integration. A case study of 10 community colleges housing ATE-funded projects collected data through interviews with administrators, faculty, ATE program practitioners, and faculty and administrators at collaborating high…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Articulation (Education), Case Studies, Community Colleges
Minoli, Daniel – 1996
This book is intended to give technology providers a better understanding of the dynamics of interactive distance learning (DL). For technology consumers it provides an understanding of the basics of available telecommunication technologies and the tradeoffs among available alternatives. Among the topics discussed in the book's 12 chapters are the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Case Studies, Computer Uses in Education, Corporate Education
Jarvis, Peter – 1995
This textbook examines the theory and practice of adult and continuing education. The following topics are among those discussed in 11 chapters: rationale for provision of education for adults (nature of contemporary society and the individual); conceptual framework for adult and continuing education (changing concept of education; teaching,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Learning, Adult Programs
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
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Health, Education, and Human Services Div. – 1994
A study examined the types and extent of overlap among federal employment and training (E&T) programs targeting economically disadvantaged persons, dislocated workers, older workers, and youth. Of 38 programs analyzed, 30 shared common goals, had comparable clients, provided similar services, and used parallel delivery mechanisms and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Delivery Systems, Dislocated Workers
Idaho State Dept. of Education, Boise. Div. of Vocational Education. – 1990
During fiscal year 1990, Idaho's vocatioal-technical system conducted activities toward attainment of five major goals. To promote economic progress by meeting employer needs for trained workers (goal 1) the technical system strengthened interaction between employers and educators; focused on vocational training to support industries and new…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Annual Reports, Articulation (Education), Basic Skills
Lemons, C. Dale – 1984
Today, this country is facing awesome challenges. Technology is changing all aspects of life, while work force requirements shift rapidly, swelling the numbers of workers who need to be retrained. At the same time, information technologies are creating changes in the automated office. Higher-level literacy is required for most workers in this…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Cognitive Processes, Computer Oriented Programs, Computers
Perelman, Lewis J. – 1984
The recent frenzy over education--that is, children and schools--has obscured an adult learning crisis that will really put this nation's economy at risk between now and the beginning of the next century. The postindustrial economy demands a new kind of learning enterprise, focused on adults rather than children, on learning rather than education,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy
Labor Relations Week, 1987
This report examines how the aging of the population of the United States will affect the workplace, and how employers, government, and the older employees themselves will adapt to this societal aging. The report covers issues surrounding the aging of the work force and uses case studies to illustrate how some companies and organizations are…
Descriptors: Age Discrimination, Dislocated Workers, Early Retirement, Employer Attitudes
Internal Revenue Service (Dept. of Treasury), Washington, DC. – 1989
This document reports the results of an examination of the external and internal environments of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the most promising technological tools and methods to create the training system capabilities the IRS will need in the future. Following an executive summary, chapter 1 describes how the document was developed.…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Assisted Instruction, Cybernetics, Distance Education
Inkster, Robert P., Comp. – 1987
Selected authors and titles include: "Radical Adult Education" (Armstrong); "Learning Liberation: A Comparative Analysis of Feminist Consciousness Raising and Freire's Conscientization Method" (Butterwick); "The Aging Worker's Potential and Training Practices" (Chene); "The Interaction of Teaching Style and Learning Style on Traditional and…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Learning
Kedney, Bob, Ed.; Parkes, David, Ed. – 1985
These eight case studies illustrate the capacity of United Kingdom Colleges of Further Education to respond effectively to training needs of local industry and commerce. Case 1 demonstrates shifts across a range of local authority colleges towards provision in the new information technologies and the service industries. Case 2 illustrates a…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Dislocated Workers, Distributive Education, Educational Needs
