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Download full textWolfbein, Seymour L. – VRI Monograph, 1988
Every one of the 20 fastest-growing occupations, as listed by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, is in the service sector. Nearly all of the 15 million jobs that have been created since the November trough of the 1982 recession have been in the service sector. About half of these jobs pay at least $10 per hour, and those paying minimum wage or…
Descriptors: Demand Occupations, Economic Climate, Employment Patterns, Employment Projections
Stahl, Klaus, Ed. – Basis-Info, 1999
Despite its high unemployment level, Germany is experiencing a shortage of specialists and managers. Germany's need for highly qualified information technology (IT) workers and engineers is particularly great. Approximately 10,000 posts for computer scientists and IT specialists remained vacant in 1998. Because of the shortage of such specialists,…
Descriptors: Demand Occupations, Employment Opportunities, Employment Patterns, Engineers
Clarke, F. Alan – CEDEFOP Flash, 1991
This narrative account summarizes the 2-day research forum of the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (CEDEFOP). Presentations focus on the central theme of the forum: new qualifications versus skill shortages. They include Kees Meijer's outline of the research undertaken in a series of national studies on skill shortages…
Descriptors: Cooperative Planning, Demand Occupations, Educational Research, Foreign Countries
Speaking Freely, 1983
This report contains a condensation and highlights of public hearings held by the Illinois State Advisory Council on Adult, Vocational and Technical Education (SACVE) and the Illinois Employment and Training Council (IETC) on the subject of community colleges in the state. During the hearings on this topic, 100 witnesses testified. The report is…
Descriptors: Career Development, College Programs, Community Colleges, Demand Occupations
Cuozzo, Lisa – Information Brief, 2002
The Committee on Technological Literacy has defined "technology" comprehensively as "the tangible objects of the human world and the systems of which those objects are part, as well as the people, infrastructure, and processes required to design, manufacturing, operate, and repair the objects." By adopting this comprehensive…
Descriptors: Career Education, Career Planning, Demand Occupations, Education Work Relationship
WorkAmerica, 2002
In a world of constantly changing demands for knowledge and technical skills for the work world, higher education has been slow to change to meet these demands. The numbers of American students receiving bachelor's degrees in engineering, mathematics, and computer science fell significantly between 1987 and 1998, while the demand rose. In…
Descriptors: College Programs, College Role, Computer Uses in Education, Curriculum Development
