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Stamps, David – Training, 1996
Employers place less emphasis on experience and much more on adaptability. They want people who can learn. However, at the lowest stratum of the service sector, jobs are being dumbed down so that a worker has only to obey commands of smart machines ("Touch french fry icon now"). (Author/JOW)
Descriptors: Employment Qualifications, Intelligence, Job Skills, Service Occupations
Dykman, Ann – Techniques: Making Education and Career Connections, 1996
A meeting of more than 200 representatives of manufacturing and service companies, leaders of associations, labor officials, education and human resource personnel was convened to discuss the proposed framework for developing national, voluntary, industry skill standards. Consensus on this issue is far from being achieved. (JOW)
Descriptors: Employment Qualifications, Job Skills, Manufacturing Industry, National Standards
Peer reviewedHoyt, Kenneth B. – Business Education Forum, 1985
Provides a brief overview of major expected occupational changes between now and 1995, comments briefly on several of the major issues and arguments regarding predicted occupational change, and examines expected occupational changes specifically in terms of their implications for business education. (CT)
Descriptors: Business Education, Change, Emerging Occupations, Employment Projections
Bristow, Clinton, Jr.; James, Curtis A., Jr. – Illinois Schools Journal, 1990
To ensure economic growth and increased employment opportunities for youth, there must be greater emphasis on the following: (1) providing self-employment skills to young people; (2) preparing them for highly technical jobs; and (3) preparing them for service industry jobs. Recommends the incorporation of entrepreneurship education in the…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Industrial Arts, Job Skills, Labor Force Development
Download full textJaffe, J. A., Ed.; And Others – 1982
This report is one of seven that identify major new and emerging technological advances expected to influence major vocational education program areas and to describe the programmatic implications in terms of skill-knowledge requirements, occupations most directly affected, and the anticipated diffusion rate. Chapter 1 considers technology as…
Descriptors: Automation, Blue Collar Occupations, Diffusion (Communication), Industrial Personnel
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Subcommittee on Education, Arts and Humanities. – 1991
This document contains the prepared statements of eight witnesses from the education, research, business, industry and university administration fields who were called to testify to the Senate Subcommittee on Education, Arts, and Humanities regarding the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act. Those witnesses and their subjects are: Reginald…
Descriptors: Competition, Educational Legislation, Educational Technology, Employment Projections
Schirmer, Peter; Goetz, Stephan J. – 1996
New corporate practices and strategies, technological advances and rising job skill requirements are making postsecondary training a virtual necessity for a high-paying job. This is driving a wedge between the earnings of education "haves" and "have nots." Corporate restructuring is eliminating hundreds of thousands of jobs,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Change, Corporations, Dislocated Workers
