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Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Subcommittee on Education, Arts and Humanities. – 1991
This document contains the prepared statements of eight witnesses from the education, research, business, industry and university administration fields who were called to testify to the Senate Subcommittee on Education, Arts, and Humanities regarding the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act. Those witnesses and their subjects are: Reginald…
Descriptors: Competition, Educational Legislation, Educational Technology, Employment Projections
Mapp, Patricia – 1973
The project goals were to isolate, analyze and minimize barriers to the participation of women in the skilled trades. Brochures and a film aimed at dispelling myths were produced. Employer surveys confirmed that prejudice and ignorance of laws had to be confronted with facts. Surveys of women apprentices and their employers showed a low drop-out…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Apprenticeships, Attendants, Career Counseling
Canny, Angela; Hughes, Gerard – 1996
The Census of Population provides data on the structure of employment by occupation and industry for Ireland that are supplemented by the Labor Force Survey (LFS), which collects information on employment by occupation and industry. Expected strong growth in the Irish economy from 1993-98 should lead to a significant increase in employment. This…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Demand Occupations, Developed Nations, Employment Patterns
Colleges Ontario, 2006
This report documents the central role of the college-educated workforce in improving labour productivity across the economy and supporting an innovation culture in the workplace. It describes critical "enabling occupations" that play a key role in allowing companies to build a culture of innovation in the workplace which they need if…
Descriptors: Productivity, College Graduates, Credentials, Health Services
Maryland State Dept. of Economic and Community Development, Baltimore. – 1991
During 1990-91, Maryland's apprenticeship program prepared workers for careers in highly skilled trades and crafts. Apprenticeship programs are operated throughout the state by sponsors (employers or a joint committee of employers and union representatives). Maryland's apprenticeship system provides services to the business community and…
Descriptors: Accessibility (for Disabled), Apprenticeships, Competency Based Education, Emerging Occupations
Association of Physical Plant Administrators of Universities and Colleges, Washington, DC. – 1982
Comparative costs of plant maintenance and operations functions, including staffing costs, for higher education institutions are presented for 1980-1981. The objective of the survey data is to promote comparisons of unit costs per gross square foot of the functions classified as maintenance and operations of plant, the number of full-time…
Descriptors: Building Operation, Carpentry, College Buildings, Comparative Analysis
Welch, Frederick G., Ed. – 1980
Designed for use by instructors of appliance repair to help establish a uniform curriculum, this manual presents a basic course of study. Individual instructors can add or delete jobs or lessons to suit their particular teaching situations. Contents include the course philosophy, listing of course objectives and activities to achieve them, plan of…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Appliance Repair, Course Objectives, Course Organization
US Senate, 2004
The purpose of this hearing was to gather information and hear testimony on three issues: (1) the expansion of the Cancer Research Center in Hawaii; (2) the recently granted legislative authority for Hawaii 3R's to utilize monies in the Native Hawaiian Education funds to repair those public schools to 25 percent or more Native Hawaiian children;…
Descriptors: Cancer, Oncology, Medical Schools, Hawaiians
Cline, Larry; Kepner, Jim – 1998
The Sumter Office of Economic Development and Central Carolina Technical College (South Carolina) formed a partnership to help increase the technical skills of the local work force. Industry surveys, questionnaires, and on-site visits revealed that employers were discouraged with the inadequate work force pool, and that those coming from secondary…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Data Collection, Economic Development, Education Work Relationship
Bendor, Joshua; Bordoff, Jason; Furman, Jason – Brookings Institution, 2007
This paper discusses a framework for education policy, from early childhood through post-secondary education, along with major reform ideas consistent with that framework. We present evidence showing that education is critical to broad-based economic growth. Investments in education yield large returns to both society and the individual.…
Descriptors: Skilled Workers, Educational Change, Disadvantaged Youth, Economic Progress
Stanley, Patrick A. – 1983
Impacts from the major high technological changes now underway cut across all industrial sectors and most occupational clusters. Technological innovation can increase or decrease the total number of types of jobs. Decline in employment may be offset, however, by new applications and capabilities of goods and services or by employment shifts. While…
Descriptors: Demand Occupations, Employment Opportunities, Employment Projections, Futures (of Society)
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Education, Workforce, and Income Security Issues. – 2002
A study examined the skill grant and scholarship grant programs. Findings indicated skill grantees offered training through various service delivery options to people needing skill upgrading; scholarship grantees provided scholarships to low income students for college degree programs in computer science, mathematics, and engineering. The skill…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Bachelors Degrees, Computer Science, Engineering
Ashton, David; Green, Francis; James, Donna; Sung, Johnny – 1999
This book provides a detailed analysis of the development of education and training systems in Asia and the relationship with the process of economic growth. Focus is on four impoverished agrarian economies--Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan--that were transformed in little more than a generation into East Asian "tigers":…
Descriptors: Boomtowns, Case Studies, Developed Nations, Developing Nations
El Camino Coll., Torrance, CA. – 1992
Almost 180 (22.5 percent) of BP Chemicals/HITCO, Inc. (BPCHI) employees have participated in the basic skills courses offered through the Competitive Skills Project (CSP) at El Camino College (Torrance, California). Workplace basics provide a solid foundation for Total Quality Management (TQM), enabling workers to be globally competitive. Two main…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Computer Literacy, Cooperation
Employment and Training Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. Bureau of Apprenticeship and Training. – 1989
This document contains executive summaries that report on short-term projects undertaken as part of the U.S. Department of Labor's Apprenticeship 2000 initiative, the purpose of which is to determine the future role of apprenticeship in meeting needs for a skilled work force. The 13 studies are on the following subjects: (1) issues relating to…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Apprenticeships, Career Counseling, Education Work Relationship