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Richard, Alan – Jobs For the Future, 2015
Advanced manufacturing is growing and thriving in the United States. Companies are in great need of reliable employees who can communicate well, effectively make decisions, and are interested in long-term careers with opportunity for advancement. Employers have identified a need for a more robust talent pipeline to narrow America's skills gap--a…
Descriptors: Manufacturing Industry, Skilled Workers, Labor Force Development, Training
Nylund, Mattias; Rosvall, Per-Åke – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2016
A key feature of the Swedish upper secondary school reform of 2011 (GY11) is the new direction it sets out for the organization of vocational education (VET) and the role it plays in youths' transitions from school to work. This study analyses the GY11 reform in terms of its impact on the organization of knowledge in VET and its implications for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Secondary Education, Secondary School Students
Hamilton, James – Occupational Outlook Quarterly, 2012
Many occupations related to electric vehicles are similar to those that help to make and maintain all types of automobiles. But the industry is also adding some nontraditional jobs, and workers' skill sets must evolve to keep up. This article describes careers related to electric vehicles. The first section is about the electric vehicle industry…
Descriptors: Careers, Nontraditional Occupations, Scientific Research, Industry
Walker, Martyn – Educational Studies, 2013
Historians and educationalists have often assumed that working-class adult education emerged at the beginning of the twentieth century with the introduction of state-funded technical colleges. This was not the case. In 1823, the Glasgow Mechanics' Institute was opened and within a few years similar institutions were being established across the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Adult Education, Program Effectiveness
Waters, John K. – Campus Technology, 2013
The latest data alert: By 2020, the amount of data generated daily will reach 40 zettabytes, or roughly 5,247 gigabytes for every person on earth. That's one of the findings in a new report published by IT industry analysts at IDC. The study casts doubt on the ability to capture the value of all this data, especially since schools barely tapped…
Descriptors: Information Management, Data, Data Collection, Data Processing
Moore, Heather – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Construction requires the knowledge and experience of craftsmen. The knowledge and experience is gained through local coordination and local adaption at points of installation, which classifies the work as complex production. Information generated at these points of installation can be valuable in understanding how and why workers make decisions,…
Descriptors: Construction Industry, Building Trades, Construction (Process), Work Environment
Jackson, Osborne – Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, 2015
This paper investigates the impact of immigration on the college enrollment of U.S. natives. Many studies have focused on the effect of increased demand for schooling by immigrants on the enrollment of natives. However, changes in immigrant labor supply may also affect native enrollment by changing local market prices. Using U.S. Census data from…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Immigration, Indigenous Populations, Enrollment Influences
Pododimenko, Inna – Comparative Professional Pedagogy, 2014
The problem of professional training of skilled human personnel in the industry of information communication technology, the urgency of which is recognized at the state level of Ukraine and the world, has been considered. It has been traced that constantly growing requirements of the labour market, swift scientific progress require the use of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Technology, Professional Training, Specialists
Mehrotra, Santosh – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2014
In the first decade of this century, India became one of the world's fastest growing large economies, and began to face serious skill-related shortages of workers. Its TVET system has not responded adequately to the growth in demand for semi-skilled and skilled workers. This article describes six sets of reforms that India's educational planners…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Technical Education, Relevance (Education)
Almannie, Mohamed – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
The study introduced a very important issue for the development of labor market in any developing country. The rapid changes in technology and communication imposed challenges on education institutions for the development of labor market to meet local communities. These institutions have more responsibilities to provide professional and skilled…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Labor Market, Labor Needs, Educational Innovation
Gander, Michelle – Journal of Education for Business, 2015
Higher education is a key sector for the United Kingdom contributing over £70 billion of output. It functions in an increasingly complex operating, regulatory, and legislative environment that has led to an increased need for effective nonacademic business managers. This study evaluates the benefits of a specialist master of business…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Masters Programs, Foreign Countries, Educational Benefits
Kelly, Andrew P.; McShane, Michael Q. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2013
It's no secret that states and the federal government have found themselves in a financial pinch when it comes to higher education. After years of recession and sluggish recovery, states have slashed per-pupil public spending on higher education by 14.6 percent since 2008. At the federal level, though money for Pell Grants has more than doubled…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Private Financial Support, Skilled Workers, Grants
Lee, Jennifer C. – Social Forces, 2013
The increase in high-skilled immigrants to the United States coincided with the expansion of the high-technology sector, and now a large share of Asian immigrants concentrate in high-tech industries. Despite much research on the relationship between ethnic concentration and labor market outcomes, the association between ethnic niche employment and…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Asian Americans, Industry, Employment Patterns
McIntosh, Jamey – Techniques: Connecting Education and Careers (J3), 2012
The cardinal rule in career and technical education (CTE) is to train future workers so that they are career-ready when they jump into the working world. In theory, education is made for this; however, many a teacher has asked if they are helping students make the connection between what they are doing in the classroom and what is expected in a…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Technical Education, Skilled Workers, Manufacturing
Kilpatrick, Sue; Johns, Susan; Vitartas, Peter; Homisan, Martin – Journal of Rural Studies, 2011
Many small rural communities have a flow of skilled people through the community, including employees from the government, non government and private sectors on fixed-term contracts, and a range of professionals, often attracted by amenity and seeking a sea change or tree change. The aim of the study reported in this paper was to investigate how…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Skilled Workers, Rural Areas, School Community Relationship