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Download full textBeston, William C. – 1994
To respond to local industry training needs, Broome Community College (BCC), in Binghamton, New York, has long provided long and short term training, workshops, seminars, and credit courses for regional companies and forged ongoing partnerships with local businesses. One such partnership has been formed with Universal Instruments (UI), a…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Cooperative Programs, Economic Development, Job Training
Missouri State Dept. of Elementary and Secondary Education, Jefferson City. Div. of Vocational and Adult Education. – 1993
Missouri's vocational education delivery system provided a full range of programs, services, and activities for students in secondary, postsecondary, and adult institutions during fiscal year 1993. Some highlights of these activities are the following: (1) the system was composed of 418 local education agencies (LEAs), including 397 comprehensive…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Disabilities, Educational Needs, Educationally Disadvantaged
Kantor, Sherrie L. – 1991
A statewide survey was conducted to document and analyze the variety of direct services to businesses and industry provided by Colorado's 15 community colleges. At each college, the president and the individual responsible for direct instructional services to business were surveyed using a personal interview format in addition to a survey…
Descriptors: Business Education, Community Colleges, Community Services, Economic Development
Wonacott, Michael E.; Hamilton, James B. – 1983
This document reports the results of work in identifying promising approaches to the provision of technological update to vocational/technical teachers and barriers as well as facilitators to the use of those approaches. (Technological update refers to the technical, as opposed to pedagogical, knowledge and skills needed by vocational teachers to…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Program Descriptions, Program Implementation
Edgerton, Russ – AAHE Bulletin, 1983
The need for a new agenda for higher education is discussed. It is suggested that colleges need an informed vision of the kind of people needed to transform the economy. Higher education needs to ask whether late 19th-century models of education are appropriate for educating people for a 21st-century world of global competition. Five areas that…
Descriptors: College Preparation, College Role, Economic Climate, Education Work Relationship
Halgin, Richard P. – 1983
This program description, written for psychology curriculum developers and faculty, addresses the design, problems, and benefits of incorporating a respecialization course of study into the existing psychology clincial training program at the University of Massachusetts. An example of the individualized curriculum designed to meet the clinical and…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Clinical Experience, Curriculum, Financial Support
Ashmore, M. Catherine; Pritz, Sandra G. – 1983
This resource guide contains information on the Program for Acquiring Competence in Entrepreneurship (PACE) materials, a glossary, and listings of sources of information. Introductory materials include a description of PACE, information on use of PACE materials, and objectives of the 18 units for all three levels at which they are developed. An…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Business Administration, Business Education, Competency Based Education
de Wijs, Ruth, Ed.; Keijzer, Jose, Ed. – 1987
Presentations and presenters include "What Are the Effects of Courses with Unemployed Adults in Their Mid-Life Years?" (Weinberg); "Combining Education and Training of Unemployed Adults " (Sellin); "The Changing Role of Adult Education in the Post-Industrial Society" (Jocher); "The REPLAN Programme in England and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Counseling, Career Guidance, Comparative Education
Washington State Univ., Pullman. – 1987
A study was conducted in 1987 to: (1) assess the impact of the farm financial crisis in Washington State; (2) identify at-risk populations; and (3) suggest appropriate programs and agency responses. Particular emphasis was placed on making recommendations for training and development programs to aid in reemployment of dislocated agricultural…
Descriptors: Agricultural Trends, Dislocated Workers, Farm Labor, Farmers
Behrens, A.; And Others – 1988
This document contains a series of papers on the topic of continuing training for technological change in business and industry. The papers focus on examples of training for technological change in several countries of Western Europe. The five papers included in the report are "Training for Continuing Training and Education" (A.…
Descriptors: Banking, Employment Practices, Foreign Countries, Futures (of Society)
California State Employment Training Panel, Sacramento. – 1986
A study examined the long-term effects of three training projects sponsored by the Employment Training Panel that were established in California in 1983. The three projects, which were all designed to prepare participants for entry-level jobs, were implemented in 1983-1984, with placements into new jobs generally occurring in early- to mid-1984.…
Descriptors: Employment Level, Employment Patterns, Employment Programs, Entry Workers
Gray, Fredrica – 1984
This guide was written for displaced homemakers and other women in transition who are concerned about finding employment or additional education, or who need help with child care, legal matters, financial planning, personal counseling, or other special issues. It provides an outline of some of the resources available in Connecticut to help these…
Descriptors: Adults, Counseling Services, Displaced Homemakers, Females
Northwest Regional Educational Lab., Portland, OR. Education and Work Program. – 1985
This issue discusses the problems that frequently accompany involuntary job loss. The types of problems experienced by dislocated workers are discussed under these categories: emotional, family, financial, physical health, job skill obsolescence, and lack of basic academic skills. The report also presents approaches that were taken by four…
Descriptors: Adults, Career Change, Career Education, Dislocated Workers
Park, Rosemarie J.; And Others – 1988
A study was conducted to determine if dislocated workers in Minnesota felt they had sufficient reading and mathematics skills to obtain new employment or enter retraining programs. A representative group of 168 dislocated workers who had been employed in manufacturing, taconite mining, lumber, and farming were interviewed from June through…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Dislocated Workers, Educational Attitudes, Educational Needs
Sumner, Jack; Wilson, Ric – 1983
Adult retraining is an important area for educators to understand because there appear to be some changes developing in the delivery of education and training. One change relates to the entry of private enterprise into the training field, such as the computer courses being held by Radio Shack. Other changes concern the population to be educated.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Adult Vocational Education
