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Download full textBlackmore, Jill – 1986
Implicit in the human capital approach of 20th-century educational rhetoric in Australia was the belief that schools imparted vocationally useful cognitive skills beyond basic literacy and numeracy. These skills were believed to be transferable to the workplace and to increase the productivity of the individual to the benefit of society. For…
Descriptors: Career Guidance, Clerical Occupations, Clerical Workers, Females
Peer reviewedWilliams, Eric – Journal of Vocational Education Research, 1997
Longitudinal interviews with six Australian women taking a community college certification course revealed the forms of social support they received. Different types of support were provided by family and by college friends. (SK)
Descriptors: Adult Students, Community Colleges, Females, Foreign Countries
