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Rohwer, Debbie – Research and Issues in Music Education, 2010
The purpose of the study was to describe the participation perceptions of church choir musicians. Twenty-two choral musicians in 3 churches were interviewed. The results align with past research on community music ensembles in terms of musical and social perceptions of the participants, including concepts of recruitment, attendance, and diverse…
Descriptors: Church Programs, Singing, Music, Group Membership
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Newton, Rose Mary; Witherspoon, Noelle – AASA Journal of Scholarship & Practice, 2007
Recruitment includes all organizational practices and decisions affecting the number and type of individuals willing to apply for and accept vacant positions (Rynes, 1991). Effective recruitment practices have the potential to improve the quality of educational experience for students, reduce the cost of personnel development, and decrease the…
Descriptors: Educational Experience, Recruitment, Principals, Faculty Recruitment
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Zhao, Hao; Liden, Robert C. – Journal of Applied Psychology, 2011
In this study, we examined internship as a recruitment and selection process. On the basis of impression management theory, we hypothesized that both organizations and interns make efforts to impress the other party during the internship if they intend to hire or be hired. Using longitudinal data collected at 3 points from 122 intern-supervisor…
Descriptors: Theory Practice Relationship, Recruitment, Internship Programs, Organizational Development
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Duncan, R. – Education & Training, 2008
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to give details of an operation carried out in Sheffield to increase the recruitment of young men into the steel forging industry. Design/methodology/approach: The Sheffield Forges Co-operative Training Scheme was designed to encourage boys to enter the forging industry and to provide them with training and…
Descriptors: Industry, Metallurgy, Cooperative Education, Recruitment
Cox, Teresa J. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Recent studies have shown that students who are former Adult Basic Education (ABE) or English as a Second Language (ESL) students rarely make the transition to college-level work, even when they have a college-level goal. New programs have been designed to help these students move further, faster in their studies to help them complete credentials,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Adult Basic Education, At Risk Students, Intervention
California Community Colleges, Chancellor's Office, 2014
California's education system--the largest in the United States--is an essential resource for ensuring strong economic growth in the state. The Career Technical Education Pathways Initiative (the Initiative) became law in 2005 with Senate Bills 70 and 1133 and provided more than $380 million over eight years to improve career technical education…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Vocational Education, College Programs, Two Year College Students
Boyd, Donald; Grossman, Pam; Hammerness, Karen; Lankford, Hamilton; Loeb, Susanna; Ronfeldt, Mathew; Wyckoff, James – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2010
School districts often struggle to recruit and retain effective math teachers. Alternative-route certification programs aim to expand the pool of teachers available; however, many alternate routes have not been able to attract large numbers of teacher candidates with undergraduate degrees in math. In response, some districts, including Baltimore,…
Descriptors: Mathematics Teachers, Comparative Analysis, Teacher Recruitment, Teacher Effectiveness
Henderson, Anne T. – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University (NJ1), 2010
The program profiles presented in this paper provide background for the research report "Building Local Leadership for Change: A National Scan of Parent Leadership Training Programs." The full report describes four types of parent leadership training programs identified in the scan and gives examples of each. These four types are: (1)…
Descriptors: Parents, Leadership Training, Adult Programs, Adult Education
Kitchenham, Andrew; Chasteauneuf, Colin – Canadian Journal of Education, 2010
This two-year study (2007-2009), which examined teacher supply and demand issues in northern Canada--Fort Nelson School District (BC), the Fort Vermilion School Division (AB), the Yukon Department of Education (YK), and the Yellowknife School District (NWT)--comprised three research objectives: (a) to ascertain in which subject areas acute and…
Descriptors: Teacher Supply and Demand, Teacher Recruitment, Teacher Shortage, Faculty Development
Mills, Andrew – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2009
The job market on North American campuses may be heading for the deep freeze, but hundreds of positions are opening up in the Persian Gulf as American universities scramble to set down roots in those petrodollar-rich states. The combination of money and opportunity on offer may seem hard to resist. But academics who trade the rich intellectual…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, International Schools, Foreign Workers
Martin, Kerry; Springate, Iain; Atkinson, Mary – National Foundation for Educational Research, 2010
This research looked at five intergenerational projects focusing on football, arts, knife crime, living history and personal and social education. Two projects ran in schools, one in a health centre, one in a youth drop-in centre and one at a football club. Each project had its own aims, but in addition to these, the projects aimed to improve…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intergenerational Programs, Age Differences, Interpersonal Relationship
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Fong, Jim – Continuing Higher Education Review, 2009
In this economy, college and university continuing education units will not automatically reap the benefits of returning adult learners as in past recessions: this economy caused a drastic reduction of resources available to the workforce and for personal revenue. As a result of decreased personal income and workforce training funding, competition…
Descriptors: Continuing Education, Adult Education, Student Recruitment, Marketing
Wajler, Nancy S. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Although there has been a surge in the number of adults entering accelerated academic programs at community colleges over the last decade, there has not been a similar increase in the number of adult learners who persist and achieve their degrees. This qualitative inquiry uses a case study methodology to explore in what ways educational…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Adult Students, Adult Learning
Steel, Nancy; Fahy, Patrick J. – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2011
For several years, the government of the western Canadian province of Alberta has drafted policies and conducted research on the problem of populations under-represented in adult education. This Alberta-North and Athabasca University study, funded by the Alberta government's Innovation Fund, uses the advice and educational experiences of northern…
Descriptors: Economic Progress, Distance Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Methods
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Ishikawa, Yoshiji; Mizuno, Michi; Amundson, Norman E. – Journal of Employment Counseling, 2009
Japan has been experiencing a labor market problem wherein many young people are leaving their jobs within the first 3 years. The authors explore this situation and consider the role of career development in this process. Suggestions are made for how career development programs can play an important role in facilitating a more satisfying career…
Descriptors: Labor Market, Career Change, Education Work Relationship, Foreign Countries
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