Many career and technical education (CTE) programs rely heavily on support from the business community to serve their students. However, there is very little information available on building solid business-education partnerships. Most people in the business world will say that they care about education, but how can educators find the people willing to pay education more than lip service by committing their time and resources to support schools? What do those people want to accomplish? What can...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Business, Partnerships in Education, Technical Education, Career Education, Program...
The Romanian system of initial vocational education and training is examined from three different points of view: its relevance to the labour market; its relationship with other parts of the national education system; and its evolution from the past to the future. While there are some major current mismatches between the school system and the labour market, the longer-term perspective seems reasonable as there is a surplus of highly qualified graduates which may prove useful if skill...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Labor Force Development, Futures (of...
The rush of jobs from the United States to other nations has been explained by the Bush administration as a win-win situation for both technically advanced and developing countries. The free-market argument claims that the more sophisticated, complex jobs generated by an avalanche of new industries will be won by a well-trained, highly educated labor force, while the less-complex jobs will be left to workers in less-developed nations. If this free-trade utopia were to emerge, the responsibility...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Global Approach, Academic Standards, Labor Force Development, Educational Change,...
The core purpose of this paper is to describe a new educational paradigm as well as possible directions and tasks for education reform in the 21st century. The present-day education system has failed to nurture the kind of creative people who can play leading roles in development or to produce citizens of a good character and democratic tendencies. We need to look at education from the standpoint of expanding the totality of possibilities for national development. The current educational system...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Human Capital, Educational Policy, Self...
The human capital emphasis in recent economic planning is leading to new pressures on the post-compulsory education sector where work-readiness is emerging as a major focus. With concerns about the impact of demographic change as the population ages, there is a renewed emphasis on greater productivity from and less wastage of human capital. Hence retention of young people in the education and training system to at least Year 12 and the development of explicit vocational pathways has become an...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Human Capital, Vocational Education, Education Work Relationship, Labor Force...
The third recommendation in ACTE's postsecondary reform position statement is to develop curriculum and instructional offerings that link to careers, foster lifelong learning, and encourage completion. Concrete linkages must be developed between middle and high school, postsecondary education and work, with lifelong postsecondary learning a part of this cycle. In this article, the author discusses how the Construction Apprenticeship Program at Central New Mexico Community College (CNMCC) and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Lifelong Learning, Educational Change, Case Studies, Student Educational Objectives,...
Career and technical educators have long recognized the fact that a highly skilled craftsperson is not necessarily a highly skilled instructor of that craft. In the belief that the key to a productive, efficient workforce lies in high quality training for journeymen and apprentices, the Carpenter's International Training Fund (CITF) partnered with the Workforce Education and Development Program (WF ED) of Pennsylvania State University in an effort to improve the quality of workforce education....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Seminars, Workshops, Labor Force Development, Instructional Effectiveness, Career...
In the course of the author's doctoral study, he is exploring the strategic linkages between learning activities in the modern workplace and the long-term success they bring to organisations. For many years, this challenge has been the Holy Grail of human resource (HR) development practitioners, who invest heavily on training and professional development projects each year but readily admit to their inadequacies when it comes to evaluating the full benefits. Although the problem appears...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Employees, Social Responsibility, Labor Force Development, Human Resources,...
The adult and community education (ACE) sector is consistently responsive to changing community needs and government priorities. It is this particular function that has drawn ACE into the lifelong learning debate as one model for sustaining communities. The responsiveness of ACE means that the sector and its programs continue to make valuable contributions to the quality of social and economic life, particularly in local communities. Although a major focus of ACE is on non-vocational outcomes,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Human Capital, Community Needs, Community Education, Lifelong Learning, Adult...
Massachusetts alone needs an estimated 5,000 nurses, and the shortage is deepening. Nurses are retiring and quitting faster than new nurses can be trained. In this article, the author describes Bunker Hill Community College's Welcome Back Center, a workforce development program that has thus far helped 47 internationally educated nurses from 29 different countries to obtain licenses and return to work. In partnership with Roxbury and Massachusetts Bay Community Colleges, and the University of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Community Colleges, Nurses, Foreign Countries, Program Effectiveness, Labor Force...
Over the next decade, businesses in New England will be facing a complicated set of problems in finding a reliable and prepared workforce. Businesses are now spending as much as $23 billion a year to train their employees. Community colleges have believed from their inception, that, given the opportunity, they could offer the solution to business' labor-supply problem. However, while community colleges have been the educators and trainers of choice in some fields, they have not always been able...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Community Colleges, School Business Relationship, Student Educational Objectives,...
In today's economy, access to postsecondary education or training has become the threshold requirement for individual career success. The increasing economic value of postsecondary education is good news in a society that strives to make economic opportunity subservient to individual merit, rather than family background. At the same time, the growing economic value of a postsecondary education is the source of new tensions among educators, government leaders and the business community. Since...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Economic Opportunities, School Business Relationship, Labor Force Development,...
The author teaches a high school program called Commercial Foods which is designed to prepare students for careers in the food service industry. The majority of students are special needs youth who generally will not go on to postsecondary education, so her emphasis is placed on workforce development and life skills. Students have resource classes; they do not have many academic classes in the areas such as the core four: science, math, social studies and English. In this article, the author...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Food Service, Vocational Education, High School Students, Special Needs Students,...
Employers are looking to career and technical education (CTE) programs to supply a workforce possessing academic and employability skills to complement the technical component. In Kentucky, the state has instituted assessment standards to ensure that CTE programs are working to increase student achievement. The program assessment standards bring all the accountability requirements together in one package making it easier for teachers to satisfy their many stakeholders. The program assessment...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Achievement, Vocational Education, Labor Force Development, Employment...
This article presents the results of research into how young trainees in the level III apprenticeship system formulate their educational and professional plans, what expectations they have of obtaining socially and professionally recognised qualifications, and in what way enterprises see such training as a strategy for providing human resources with qualifications. The empirical research was carried out in two contexts (vocational training centre and enterprises) by means of two questionnaires,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Apprenticeships, Foreign Countries, Human Resources, Vocational Education, Trainees,...
The question of skill development in temporary work has so far been neglected in research and practice. The expansion and speciality of this way of earning a living--particularly as a result of the frequently changing demands on different workplaces and the strategy of lifelong learning favoured by educational policy in order to obtain and improve qualifications--make it necessary to demonstrate plans for skills development for this target group. The findings make it clear that opportunities to...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Skill Development, Temporary Employment, Informal Education, Labor Force Development,...
Human resource development for regional strategic industries is an emerging emphasis for the development of industries that have growth potential. This article identifies competencies and expertise levels needed by port and logistics industry personnel, a sector that has growth potential in Busan, South Korea. The research consisted of expert interviews to develop a competency survey. Six competency clusters and 16 sub-competencies were developed. This research was useful in the development of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Industry, Foreign Countries, Labor Force Development, Human Resources, Competence,...
This paper analyses the measurement issues in education achievement, and integration of education goals and targets, in the context of human development in India. Measurement issues are distinguished by (a) choice of indicators and variables and (b) data used in estimation/projection/computation of indicators and variables in the global human development reports (HDRs) and in India's national and sub-national HDRs. This analysis establishes the non-comparability of measurement of the education...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries, Measurement Objectives, Measurement...
In order for any new initiative to be implemented, it is generally assumed that policy actors need both motivation to comply with a new initiative and adequate assistance to implement the required change successfully. The study reported here examined the impact of a system of pressure and supports created to encourage preschool teachers working in public school, Head Start, and child care settings to obtain a teaching credential by a court imposed deadline. Findings from the sample of 689...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Labor Force Development, Preschool Teachers, Teacher Education, Certification,...
We review a plan that attracted the attention of public sector planners everywhere, Oregon's 1989 "Oregon Shines: An Economic Strategy for the Pacific Century". In particular, we focus on Oregon's aspirations for world-class workforce quality; a status that the state's planners argued would contribute to a host of other outcomes that foster citizen well-being. The broader purpose of the paper is to emphasize the importance of timing. Planners must remain mindful of the long timeframe...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Improvement, School Business Relationship, Labor Force Development,...
Canada's provincial and territorial governments are committed to implement the Labour Mobility chapter of the "Agreement on Internal Trade" (AIT) in 2009. This article examines the implications of this agreement for teacher certification and teacher education programs. It argues that the full impact of AIT will not be immediately apparent, but over the long term the new circumstances have the potential to bring about profound changes to public education. This is a two-part paper: the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Teacher Education Programs, Foreign Countries, Teacher Certification, Labor Force...
The need for skilled workers to continually innovate and drive economic prosperity lends credence to the idea of planning for the future--and career and technical education (CTE) programs can be at the center of both today's economic recovery and the long-term future of the country's workforce. One way that these two needs can intersect is through growing partnerships between education and businesses. Increased coordination with business and industry is a much stronger theme within the 2006...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Vocational Education, Labor Force Development, Partnerships in Education, Education...
"We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future." Franklin D. Roosevelt spoke those words more than 50 years ago. It was a time when students took classes called "shop," and those students were almost exclusively boys. Home economics classes, on the other hand, were filled with girls learning cooking and sewing. Business classes often meant typing and shorthand for girls, while mostly boys learned about farming in the classes...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Majors (Students), Home Economics, Information Technology, Agricultural Education,...
The text for this article derives from Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks, which contain the central elements of his extensive critique of education in Benito Mussolini's Italy. In prison from 1926 to 1937, he produced a remarkable amount of writing on many political and cultural subjects, all of which were scribbled out in student notebooks and smuggled from his cell to an awaiting world. His critique of education was especially fascinating, because he advocated a "classical"...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Citizenship Education, Higher Education, Job Skills, Educational Objectives, Foreign...
In recent years, due to economic restructuring, the problems Hong Kong has been facing are the "knowledge deficit" in the workforce and a shortage of well-educated manpower. The Hong Kong Government has implemented a number of continuing education policies with an ultimate goal to encourage and help the workforce to strengthen themselves with improved knowledge and skills. These policies rely on short-term inducements such as providing monetary subsidies and loans. As the recipients...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Continuing Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Policy Analysis, Audits...
This investigation provides a model for at-risk youth community agencies to tailor their programs to fit the specific needs of their local out-of-school youth. Using a needs-based assessment, baseline data were gathered on Cleveland African Americans (N = 187) to pinpoint academic strengths and deficits, career interests, and life-skill needs. The practical implications of population data in program development as well as the perceived benefits are discussed. (Contains 3 tables and 1 figure.)
Topics: ERIC Archive, At Risk Persons, Public Agencies, Program Development, Dropout Programs, Models,...
Technical education, especially as provided in the Nigerian polytechnics, leads to the acquisition of practical and applied skills as well as basic scientific knowledge. The production function of the polytechnics in terms of producing quality middle-level manpower through effective teaching delivery depends largely on the quantity and quality of teachers available. However, teacher adequacy is a function of many factors, which include funding, student enrollment overtime, and staff turnover....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Teacher Effectiveness, Educational Finance, Technical Education, Labor Force...
This is a report of the role of Distance education (DE) in enhancing education and training in developing countries. As countries compete in an ever more challenging international marketplace, they recognize the need to continually train and upgrade their citizenry. As national leaders struggle to cope with increasing populations and decreasing budgets, DE can be an additional and often essential tool in accomplishing this goal. This paper is a case study of the efforts of one college in...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Distance Education, Foreign Countries, Program Development, Internet, Case Studies,...
Researchers and practitioners consider knowledge management to be a strategic intervention that integrates organizational resources such as technologies and human resources. This conceptual paper focuses on the foundational contributions of economics, sociology, and psychology to knowledge management. Select theories from each foundational area are illustrated. Links are made to the research and practice of career and technical teacher educators. Suggestions for further research include...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Knowledge Management, Human Resources, Teacher Educators, Vocational Education,...
Due to the large number of individuals retiring over the next ten years a critical shortage of people available to work within the manufacturing industry is looming (Dychtwald, Erickson, & Morison, 2006). This shortage is exacerbated by the lack of a properly educated workforce that meets the demands of the 21st century manufacturer (Judy & D'Amico, 1997). Combine these two issues and the result is a steady reduction in qualified candidates for the millions of jobs available in the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Manufacturing Industry, Competition, Global Approach, Employment Patterns, Labor...
In this paper, the author shares some thoughts about health education profession, including some things that educators need to do to keep the profession "vital". He also offers some thoughts that educators need to consider as they attempt to respond effectively to the challenges that lie before them now, and face them in the future. He discusses five actions that will ensure that those who are in the health education profession will continue to have a professional pulse and vitality....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Health Education, Public Health, Professional Recognition, Health Promotion, Health...
The article presents the findings of the research into professional development needs of study programme managers at four Lithuanian higher education schools (two universities and two colleges) and a revised methodology for research into study programme managers professional development needs in the didactical domain of teacher qualification related to designing, realizing and improvement study programmes within the study outcome paradigm. The research participants were 149 study programme...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Teaching Skills, Education Work Relationship, Educational Improvement, Labor Market,...
Valuing Learning is the process of promoting participation in and outcomes of (formal or non-formal) learning and as such the organising principle for lifelong learning strategies. It aims at the recognition and validation of prior learning (VPL) and further development. Four main models of Valuing Learning can be distinguished: (1) the "educational model" for initiating particular qualifications, (2) the "upgrade model" for determining an organisation's need for...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Learning Strategies, Prior Learning, Lifelong Learning, Foreign Countries, Human...
In the midst of an economic recession, double digit unemployment rates, and financial bailouts lies a promise of economic recovery through investments and training for a green economy and green collar occupations. This article discusses the impact of the green revolution on job creation and on career and technical education (CTE). The green economy and its occupations should be essential in helping to fuel the nation's economic recovery and growth. CTE programs are pivotal in helping to produce...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Skilled Workers, Sustainable Development, Vocational Education, Economic Development,...
Manufacturing has a new face--and the future it offers is exciting. But in order to take advantage of what it offers, one needs a plan and he/she has to know how to execute it. In this article, the author discusses how the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) is working to get the message out that the future of advanced manufacturing will depend greatly on a pipeline of workers who are skilled in the technologies being used in the field today. SME provides technology that can boost...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Manufacturing, Labor Force Development, Professional Associations, Philanthropic...
This article features the 2009 Association for Career and Technical Education's (ACTE) Annual Convention and Career Tech Expo which was held in Nashville in November. Despite somber economic times, the Annual Convention drew thousands of attendees, more than 200 exhibitors, offered engaging sessions and speakers, and the new chief of the Office of Vocational and Adult Education was on hand to meet the community; altogether, it added up to a successful professional development event for career...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Conferences (Gatherings), Teacher Associations, Vocational Education, Awards, Public...
Vocational education can serve to promote social stability and sustainable economic and social development. The European Union (EU) strategically employs a range of vocational educational schemes to attain these overriding goals. Topical points of focus are selected in line with requirements in the individual partner countries or regions. However, during scheme planning and implementation, flexible and problem-oriented approaches by which partners retain responsibility, while also having the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, International Cooperation, Quality Control, Educational Change, Learning Processes,...
The rapid growth and modernization of economies in developing countries like Botswana creates new and unmet demands for certain kinds of educated and skilled labour. The expansion of secondary and tertiary school systems has also created a problem of unemployed school leavers. The growth of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), globalization and the digital divide likewise, have together put new pressures on developing countries to accelerate their development to meet these...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Private Sector, Labor Force Development, Trainees, Developing Nations, Readiness,...
Over the next few decades, demographic change will cause significant changes in the working population. how businesses prepare for these changes will have a decisive impact on whether this transformation has a beneficial or detrimental effect on the economy. Small and medium-sized businesses do not possess the resources required to develop and implement sustainable human resource strategies and thus face particularly significant challenges. This article aims to outline the strategies that small...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Small Businesses, Personnel Management, Labor Force Development, Educational...
Background: Isabella Thoburn College at Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India has initiated Service Learning Program for its students through 4 issue based centers. One of the centers AIDS Awareness Center for Counseling, Education, and Training (AACCET) is in the field of HIV/AIDS. It follows 6 pronged approach to achieve its objectives and one of the objectives is Human Resource Building. The paper explains the whole concept and methodology of human resource building as an approach to service...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Service Learning, Foreign Countries, Human Resources, Labor Force Development,...
The Center for Economic and Workforce Development (CEWD) at Kingsborough Community College (KCC) is currently working on a workforce development project that contains innovative teaching tools that proved successful in overcoming issues of academic isolation facing the student body. The CUNY Young Adult Program (CYAP) is a partnership of three City University of New York (CUNY) colleges--LaGuardia Community College (lead organization), KCC's CEWD and New York City College of Technology (City...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Food Service, Career Planning, Adult Programs, Young Adults, Education Work...
To meet workforce demand and the needs of working or place-bound students, Whatcom Community College developed an online version of its existing face-to-face Physical Therapist Assistant program which became a model for other lab-based health science degrees. This article describes research studies that support the program's practices and includes the story of how the program successfully developed despite faculty and professional community skepticism.
Topics: ERIC Archive, Online Courses, Physical Therapy, Community Colleges, Program Development, College...
The construction industry has long been a leader in predicting economic prosperity and in responding to customers' needs. In the last few years, the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) has managed to assemble the only ANSI-approved standards for green construction in the nation. During this time and with an eye toward the future, NAHB and its workforce development arm, the Home Builders Institute (HBI), have been assessing the growth opportunities of the industry and preparing for the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Construction Industry, Demand Occupations, Educational Demand, Partnerships in...
One of the most important components to the discussion of emerging careers is the recognition that the American economy will need an increasingly skilled workforce. According to the recent report, "Help Wanted: Projections of Job and Education Requirements Through 2018," the American workforce will be in need of 22 million new college degrees as well as 4.7 million new workers with postsecondary certificates. The report also notes that America will fall short of workers with associate...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Career Education, Labor Force Development, Human Capital, Demand Occupations,...
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 skilled workforce, but those skills have changed remarkably. The founders of CTE would be amazed at some of the careers that have emerged over the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Skilled Workers, Vocational Education, Skill Development, Emerging Occupations,...
Labor market economists argue that it is difficult to fit occupations into a few skill categories, but most will agree that there are at least three. In this schema, high-skill occupations are those in the professional/technical and managerial categories. Low-skill occupations are in the traditional, in-person service and agricultural categories. The rest are middle-skill occupations. There is much focus on high-skill and low-skill occupations, but many jobs and careers fall somewhere in the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Labor Market, Vocational Education, Institutional Role, Skilled Occupations,...
No doubt career and technical education (CTE) is integral in preparing a skilled workforce for today's jobs. Hands-on training is an important element of the CTE classroom, and when that occurs in an actual workplace setting, it may be called internship, apprenticeship or cooperative education. Whatever term is applied, it is another way in which CTE is preparing the new workforce. In this article, four programs are profiled highlighting the success of CTE in Maryland, Florida, Utah, and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Biotechnology, Cooperative Education, Education Work Relationship, Sustainability,...
This annotated bibliography is a companion piece to "Putting Creativity and Innovation to Work: Continuing Higher Education's Role in Shifting the Educational Paradigm," also in this edition of "Continuing Higher Education Review." The author has provided citations for a selection of books and a brief description of the main idea in each along with an excerpt. These books begin with the premise that the practice of creativity and innovation can be taught. They fall into...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Higher Education, Creativity, Annotated Bibliographies, Citation Analysis, Student...
This study explored the perceptions of Mexican senior government agency officials with regard to the impact of NAFTA on training and development practices in Mexico. This study was conducted using a phenomenological tradition within qualitative research. The major findings of the study indicate that Mexican senior government agency officials consider NAFTA as a driver for the implementation/development of training and development practices in Mexican companies. According to the participants'...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Public Agencies, Labor Force Development,...
Due to recent changes in the workplace, the workforce and higher education have driven academic programs of adult education (AE) and human resource development (HRD) in the U.S. to become more integrated as part of the mission of institutions of higher education. In this exploratory study, existing graduate programs in AE and HRD in the U.S. were investigated based on the "Peterson's Graduate Schools in the U.S." (2006) to assess the current status of these academic programs in both...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Higher Education, Adult Education, Human Resources, Graduate Study, Labor Force...