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Tech Directions, 2010
Diesel engine technicians maintain and repair the engines that power transportation equipment such as heavy trucks, trains, buses, and locomotives. Some technicians work mainly on farm machines, ships, compressors, and pumps. Others work mostly on construction equipment such as cranes, power shovels, bulldozers, and paving machines. This article…
Descriptors: Engines, Education Work Relationship, Competency Based Education, Power Technology
Burks, Beatrice Karol; Reeves, Richard – Adults Learning, 2009
Despite a vocal commitment to fairness, the British Government has, according to these authors, wholeheartedly failed to live up to this pledge when it comes to skills and adult training. A report on adult learning released in December by Demos found a system rife with inequality and contradictions. As the jobs market becomes increasingly…
Descriptors: Employees, Adult Learning, Skilled Workers, Education Work Relationship
Trostel, Philip A. – New England Journal of Higher Education, 2009
"Since so many graduates of our public colleges settle in other states, why should our state subsidize the workforce development of other states?" Or, "Why should we get more people into college when we won't have enough jobs for more college graduates here?" These widespread sentiments among people involved in public higher education indicate a…
Descriptors: Public Colleges, Labor Market, College Graduates, Job Development
Ryan, Chris; Sinning, Mathias – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2012
The training requirements of foreign-born workers may be different from those of native-born workers in similar jobs. Over recent decades Australian immigration policy has focused predominantly on accepting high-skilled migrants. Although this focus has resulted in the successful integration of foreign-born workers into the Australian labour…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Migrant Workers, Foreign Countries, Employment Patterns
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Noronha, Claire; Endow, Tanuka – International Journal of Training Research, 2011
The paper is based on a qualitative study of 66 skilled workers comprising drivers, tailors, electricians and also murtikars, a traditional craft group. All of them had taken informal training through family, apprenticeship or self-learning. The paper reflects on access, quality and relevance issues arising from such training. The findings reveal…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Outcomes of Education, Skilled Workers, Vocational Education
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Burton, Diana; Goodman, Ruth – Pastoral Care in Education, 2011
With teachers under pressure to meet curriculum targets, responsibility for including students with behavioural emotional and social difficulties (BESD) in mainstream schools falls heavily on non-teaching staff. In this article, semi-structured interviews were conducted with special educational needs coordinators (SENCos) and support staff in a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inclusion, Mainstreaming, Special Needs Students
Hotchkiss, Julie L.; Shiferaw, Menbere – Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, 2010
This paper contributes to a large literature concerned with identifying the source of the widening wage gap between high school and college graduates by providing a comprehensive, multidimensional decomposition of wages across both time and educational status. Data from a multitude of sources are brought to bear on the question of the relative…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Salary Wage Differentials, High School Graduates, College Graduates
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Harris, Margaret; Chisholm, Colin; Allan, Malcolm – Industry and Higher Education, 2010
The authors report the results of a European project, Lifelearn, and discuss how lifeplace learning (LPL) can be used to effect appropriate learning opportunities for all. The project tested the concept of valuing and accrediting learning from life experiences in higher education in Europe, and its conclusions suggest that LPL is valuable for both…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Industry, Skilled Workers, Foreign Countries
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Moore, Pam – Tech Directions, 2008
Fluid power technicians, sometimes called hydraulic and pneumatic technicians, work with equipment that utilizes the pressure of a liquid or gas in a closed container to transmit, multiply, or control power. Working under the supervision of an engineer or engineering staff, they assemble, install, maintain, and test fluid power equipment.…
Descriptors: Hydraulics, Job Skills, Mechanics (Physics), Skilled Workers
Ryan, Chris; Sinning, Mathias – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2011
Younger workers, particularly those entering the workforce at ages 25-34 years, are more educated than ever before. The potential for these workers to be over-educated in their jobs might therefore be high. But does it follow that they are mismatched to the skill requirements of their jobs? This study examines the link between over-education and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Wages, Educational Attainment, Skilled Workers
Anderson, Alan – Executive Office of the President, 2011
The United States has long thrived as a result of its ability to manufacture goods and sell them to global markets. Manufacturing activity has supported its economic growth, leading the Nation's exports and employing millions of Americans. The manufacturing sector has also driven knowledge production and innovation in the United States, by…
Descriptors: Manufacturing, Leadership, Innovation, Public Policy
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Wilkin, Thomas; Nwoke, Godfrey I. – Journal of STEM Teacher Education, 2011
The role of Career and Technical Education (CTE) as a major source of skilled workers for the American economy and a vital component of American education is well established. Several recent studies show that when CTE programs combine rigorous academic standards and industry-based technical content, the result is higher academic achievement and…
Descriptors: High Schools, Teacher Shortage, Skilled Workers, Vocational Education
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Frawley, Thomas A. – Tech Directions, 2009
Engineers and skilled tradesmen stood side by side with executives and politicians as Liverpool High School technology teacher Dan Drogo welcomed parents to a one-of-a-kind graduation ceremony at New Process Gear in Syracuse, New York. The manufacturing shadow program had immersed 25 high school students in an intensive five-week experience inside…
Descriptors: Graduation, School Business Relationship, Job Shadowing, Skilled Workers
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Rossini, Carolina – EDUCAUSE Review, 2010
The change brought about in the networked information environment is deep and structural, in a way that has the potential to empower cultures left out of the Industrial Revolution. Thus, the author stresses that it is fundamental for individuals to understand, from a developing nation's perspective, how the Internet changes the capacity of…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Internet, Influence of Technology, Technological Advancement
Reese, Susan – Techniques: Connecting Education and Careers (J1), 2010
When career and technological education (CTE) began, known then as vocational technical education, only those with the most vivid imaginations and creative minds could envision it as it is today. Many of today's jobs didn't even exist when the baby boomers entered the workforce. Over the decades, CTE has maintained its commitment to preparing a…
Descriptors: Skilled Workers, Vocational Education, Skill Development, Emerging Occupations
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