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Sloman, Martyn; Philpott, John – Journal of European Industrial Training, 2006
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to consider whether the shift from training to learning is related to employment categories using a categorisation popularised by Robert Reich. Design/methodology/approach: Collation and analysis of existing CIPD research information and assessment of labour statistics. Findings: An examination of the national…
Descriptors: Job Training, Public Policy, Vocational Education, Human Resources
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Rowold, Jens; Schilling, Jan – Career Development International, 2006
Purpose: Within the framework of learning in organizations, the concept of career-related continuous learning (CRCL) has gained increasing attention from the research community. The purpose of the present study is to explore the combined effect of job- and career-related variables on formal CRCL activities. Design/methodology/approach: The study…
Descriptors: Employees, Job Satisfaction, Identification (Psychology), Lifelong Learning
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Smith, Erica – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2006
This article examines the increased incidence of work-related qualifications for women in areas of work served by the vocational education and training (VET) system in Australia. Until 20 years ago, qualifications were generally available only for areas of work usually undertaken by men, apart from a few specific "women's occupations"…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Part Time Employment, Incidence, Females
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Somerville, Margaret – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2006
Women's care work sits on the boundary between unpaid work in the private domain and poorly paid, low-status work in the public sphere. It continues to be a site for the expression of complex, high-level knowledge and skills, and of ongoing gender oppression. The aged-care industry is a particularly salient example of such work. It is a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Vocational Education, Caregiver Training, Females
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Rothstein, Richard – National Center on Performance Incentives, 2008
Accountability and performance incentive plans in education are compromised by goal distortion, gaming, and corruption. Education policy makers who design such plans have paid insufficient attention to similar experiences in other fields. This paper describes institutions in health care, job training and welfare administration, and in the private…
Descriptors: Accountability, Public Sector, Job Performance, Incentives
Bakken, Jeffrey P.; Obiakor, Festus E. – Charles C. Thomas, Publisher, Ltd, 2008
The need for transition services for students with exceptionalities is apparent and critical for their success after high school. It is essential for school professionals, parents, and students to work collaboratively and consultively to determine each student's future goals and develop an effective plan to meet those goals successively. This book…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Individualized Transition Plans, Independent Living, Cooperative Planning
Lundberg, David; Marshallsay, Zariah – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2007
Older workers' perspectives are examined in a national survey of the finance sector and case studies of aged care and construction workers. The majority of older workers intend to work beyond retirement age, to achieve a better lifestyle. With training, older workers could mentor younger workers. This support document includes a national survey of…
Descriptors: Retirement, Construction Industry, Forestry, Foreign Countries
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Brown, Barbara Alice; Harte, Jacqui; Warnes, Anne-Marie – Education & Training, 2007
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to share practice on how two approaches to work-based learning (WBL) are used to develop the knowledge and skills of health care staff with different levels of experience and educational attainment within the Department of Nursing and the Department of Allied Health Professions at a post-1992 university…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Models, Comparative Analysis, Concept Mapping
Jarvis, Peter, Ed.; Watts, Mary, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
As our understanding of learning focuses on the whole person rather than individual aspects of learning, so the process of learning is beginning to be studied from a wide variety of perspectives and disciplines. This handbook presents a comprehensive overview of the contemporary research into learning: it brings together a diverse range of…
Descriptors: Learning, Perception, Cognitive Processes, Nurses
US Department of Education, 2006
Business is about productivity and maintaining a competitive advantage. To do this, business needs qualified workers. Hiring people with disabilities adds value to a business and will attract new customers. Disability is not inability. President Bush's position is that he "will not be satisfied until every American who wants to work can find…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Excellence in Education, Attitudes toward Disabilities, Disabilities
American College Testing (ACT), Inc., 2006
Results of a new ACT study provide empirical evidence that, whether planning to enter college or workforce training programs after graduation, high school students need to be educated to a comparable level of readiness in reading and mathematics. Graduates need this level of readiness if they are to succeed in college-level courses without…
Descriptors: Readiness, Postsecondary Education, Noncollege Bound Students, College Bound Students
Mathis, Robin Smith – Online Submission, 2006
This paper is a review of human resource development, training, and instructional communication literature to determine any connections between trainers presentation and trainee motivation. The literature review explores constructs of instructional communication that impact motivation, and then connects motivation to trainees' transfer of…
Descriptors: Motivation, Transfer of Training, Labor Force Development, Human Resources
Wang, Greg G.; Foucar-Szocki, Diane; Griffin, Oris – Online Submission, 2006
This study offers empirical evidence in HRD e-learning completion. Based on the Learning Participation Theory (LPT) (Wang & Wang, 2004), a study was conducted with U.S. corporate e-learners to explore the determinants of e-learning completion. The results generally confirmed the hypothesis by the LPT that individual, learning process, and…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Human Resources, Labor Force Development, Computer Uses in Education
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Monk, Des; Olsson, Cliff – Education & Training, 2006
Purpose: This paper will examine the two year modern apprenticeship undertaken by trainees in the English professional football industry. Design/methodology/approach: Representatives of seven clubs were interviewed in the summer of 2005; all of them were responsible for youth development in their club. These interviews were the first of what will…
Descriptors: Interviews, Longitudinal Studies, Off the Job Training, Foreign Countries
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Hutchins, Holly M.; Burke, Lisa A. – Human Resource Development Review, 2006
As learning and performance improvement continues to dominate the training research landscape, so does the need to justify the results of relevant interventions. One area in training research that has continued to elude practitioners and researchers is enhancing the use of trained skills back on the job (i.e., training transfer). Relapse…
Descriptors: Intervention, Prevention, Transfer of Training, Research Design
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