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Download full textRainbird, Helen – 1992
The levy-grant system that operated under Britain's 1964 Industrial Training Act was the most effective incentive mechanism for increasing the volume and improving the quality of training. Strengths of the act's Industrial Training Boards (ITBs) were employer-funded training, collection of data on training in companies to guide planning, and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Advisory Committees, Educational Finance, Educational Planning
US Office of Education, Federal Security Agency, 1946
The Rural War Production Training Program was inaugurated at the beginning of the war primarily to provide training in elementary skills to farm youth not needed on farms, sufficient to enable them to secure employment in defense industries. Needs changed, however, and the production of food crops throughout the Nation adequate to feed ourselves,…
Descriptors: Agricultural Occupations, Program Administration, Grants, Rural Youth
Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1978
The report presents data and discussion on U.S. education across sectors, as well as the work of the Office of Education. Among topics covered are the commissioner's assessment of the condition of education in the nation; education-equalization programs, including desegregation assistance, civil rights advisory services, education of disadvantaged…
Descriptors: Equal Education, School Desegregation, Civil Rights, Disadvantaged Youth
Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1976
The report presents data and discussion on U.S. education across sectors, as well as the work of the Office of Education. Among topics covered are education-equalization programs, including desegregation assistance, civil rights advisory services, education of disadvantaged children, grants to local education agencies, migrant children, neglected…
Descriptors: Equal Education, School Desegregation, Civil Rights, Disadvantaged Youth
