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Holzer, Harry J. – National Poverty Center, University of Michigan, 2012
Stagnant earnings and growing inequality in the US labor market reflect both a slowdown in the growth of worker skills and the growing matching of good-paying jobs to skilled workers. Improving the ties between colleges, workforce institutions, and employers would help more workers gain the needed skills. Evaluation evidence shows that training…
Descriptors: Labor Market, Economic Climate, Skilled Workers, Educational Benefits
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Roman, Harry T. – Tech Directions, 2010
Electricity and magnetism are intimately linked, this relationship forming the basis of the modern electric utility system and the generation of bulk electrical energy. There is rich literature from which to teach students the basics, but nothing drives the point home like having them learn from firsthand experience--and that is what this…
Descriptors: Student Interests, Energy, Correlation, Experiential Learning
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Othman, Ahmad; Abdullah, Nor Hazana; Sulaiman, Mohamad; Shamsuddin, Alina – International Education Studies, 2011
This paper discusses the new task of industry personnel as coaches in the National Dual Training System (NDTS), a newly introduced training initiative for producing k-workers in Malaysia. The decision to introduce this initiative was made by the Malaysian Cabinet on the 19th May 2004 with the hope that it will resolve the issue of skilled workers…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Coaching (Performance), Skilled Workers, Vocational Education
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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
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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)
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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