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Nicole Sarkis; Lillian Mwanri – Health Education, 2014
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to discuss innovative ways of addressing human resources for health (HRH) shortage in the Pacific, supported by a review of the literature and the Pacific Open Learning Health Network (POLHN), a programme created in response to the Pacific's HRH concern. Design/methodology/approach: A systematic search was…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Human Resources, Labor Supply, Labor Force Development
Tran, Ly Thi; Nyland, Chris – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2013
In Australia, all vocational education and training (VET) qualifications must be based on competency-based training (CBT) and training packages. Yet, since 2005, there has been a major expansion in the number of VET international students in Australia, 85% of whom are from Asia. Given this development, the teaching and learning contexts in which…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Vocational Education, Foreign Countries, Relevance (Education)
Dworsky, Amy – Prevention Researcher, 2011
With the growing demand for highly skilled workers and declining wages for those who are less skilled, low-income youth with limited education and no work experience have few opportunities for gainful employment. Since the Great Depression, the federal government has been funding programs that provide low-income, out-of-school, and unemployed…
Descriptors: Low Income, Job Training, Skilled Workers, Federal Programs
Xiong, Jie – Frontiers of Education in China, 2011
The development of higher vocational education in China embodies a global trend of vocationalism that values skills and skilled workers, which is opposite, in some ways, to the Confucian tradition in Chinese education that values theoretical knowledge related to good governance. As the cultural trend supporting the development of higher vocational…
Descriptors: Ethical Instruction, Confucianism, Global Approach, Skilled Workers
Singh, Madhu – Comparative Education, 2013
The paper examines education practice in India in terms of the division between indigenous cultures on the one hand, and the formal culture of learning and knowledge systems inherited from colonial times on the other. These "two Indias" are still reflected in the modern educational system in India, seen in the vast differences between…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Practices, Indigenous Knowledge, Foreign Policy
Shirokalova, G. S.; Deriabina, O. N. – Russian Education and Society, 2012
The future of Russian agriculture and rural community depends on the willingness of skilled workers to accept conditions of village life and the demands of agricultural work. Surveys of potential rural specialists indicate that they are concerned about the lack of up-to-date technologies, the difficult working conditions and low prestige of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Agriculture, Rural Areas, Skilled Workers
Dike, Victor Ebipuruonwu – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The descriptive mixed-methods study explores and describes the challenges and prospects of the growth and development of technical and vocational education and training (TVET) schools and science-based technology education in Nigeria. It is not understood how Nigerians in the United States perceive the impacts of governmental policies on education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Mixed Methods Research, Technology Education
Ahrens, Andreas; Zascerinska, Jelena – Online Submission, 2011
The contemporary situation in the Baltic region, namely, the lack of working places due to the structural problems, a high unemployment rate, the migration of highly qualified people and the low rate of self-employees, demands on innovation as an engine of the economic development with a strong impact on sustainable development in the European…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Engineering Education, Innovation, Unions
Kemmis, Ros Brennan; Green, Annette – International Journal of Training Research, 2013
There is a growing enthusiasm for developing a more highly skilled workforce in both Australia and internationally. Federal and state policies are directed towards increasing productivity and the engagement of formerly disengaged senior school students and the wider society. There is a new determination to manage transition arrangements between…
Descriptors: Vocational Education Teachers, Vocational Education, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries
Han, Huamei – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2012
Based on a four-year ethnography and informed by poststructuralist theories of identity and language, this article examines how, through lived settlement experiences in Canada, a young man from Mainland China gradually became an immigrant in the folk sense of the term. Though he was considered a success in terms of the diaspora community, he was…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Self Concept
Steele, Astrid; Brew, Christine R.; Beatty, Brenda R. – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2012
The call for the integration of ethical considerations in the teaching of science is now firmly on the agenda. Taking as illustrative a science lesson in a pre-service teacher class, the authors consider the roles of STSE (science, technology, society and environment) and the increasingly influential heavily funded STEM (science, technology,…
Descriptors: Ethics, Science Instruction, Science Education, STEM Education
Khokhar, Amy – Techniques: Connecting Education and Careers (J3), 2012
Michael Fields is a recent graduate of Buckeye Union High School in Buckeye, Arizona. Fields is enrolled in the Estrella Mountain Community College (EMCC) Get Into Energy program, which means he is well on his way to a promising career. Specializing in power plant technology, in two years he will earn a certificate that will all but guarantee a…
Descriptors: Skilled Workers, Industry, Energy Management, Vocational Education
O'Reilly-Briggs, Karen – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2011
The author explores the prospect of improving pathways and opportunities for tradespeople in Australia through the introduction of a masters-level qualification. The study investigates the views and opinions of senior industry representatives and professional educators to determine whether the introduction of a master trade or master artisan…
Descriptors: Industry, Qualifications, Foreign Countries, Enrollment
Gerard, Etienne – International Journal of Educational Development, 2012
The article approaches the question of the schooling processes in the particular environment of the Moroccan craftsmen of Fez. It shows that the weak schooling of the children is bound to the representations and to the ways of transmission of craft industry knowledge. Schooling is, indeed, the object of tensions between a school system of western…
Descriptors: Handicrafts, Educational Finance, Skilled Workers, Foreign Countries
Høst, Håkon; Seland, Idunn; Skålholt, Asgeir – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2015
Could the labour market gender balance be improved by introducing new types of apprenticeship-trained workers? This article investigates what happened in the wake of the Norwegian VET programme for health and social care, a new approach introduced via the 1994 educational reform. By upgrading this traditionally female-dominated area of education,…
Descriptors: Gender Issues, Health Services, Social Services, Apprenticeships