This position paper reviews four intersecting trends impacting the burnout and turnover of clinical staff in counseling centers in the 2020s: ever expanding service demand, mismatched clinical models, the emergence of third party vendors, and uncompetitive salaries. The authors provide a framework and make recommendations for institutions to take…

Madison Strategies Group (MSG), which operates Tulsa Community WorkAdvance (TCW) in Tulsa, Oklahoma, participated in MDRC's study of WorkAdvance, a sector-based training and career advancement program that prepares people for jobs in manufacturing and transportation. In 2015, TCW also began a health care training program in partnership with CAP…

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…

Leaders of the women's movement have done little to champion nursing or other "female" professions. This failure will affect the health care delivery system and society as a whole. A second wave of the women's movement must be launched to encourage and foster a greater appreciation and respect for the value of these professions. (JOW)

The U.S. Department of Labor reports that computer-related jobs will increase by 60% over the next decade. Information technology will fuel economic growth in the next millennium. Certification is increasingly being used to screen job applicants. (JOW)

Suggests that certification can help ensure a solid future for information technology (IT). Describes IT certification as the attainment of expertise in a particular field of information technology such as computer hardware and software. Looks at certification offered by Novel, Microsoft, and Cisco. (JOW)

Niche programs are defined as specialized training for unusual occupations such as stone carving and blackjack dealing. Describes college-career and technical-education niche programs. (JOW)

Training jobs are paying more as companies realize their value; e-learning is forcing more firms to focus on training and trainers. Trainers should understand the business, be proactive, conduct needs assessments, know when to say no, embrace technology, understand adult learning, become subject-matter experts, and measure return on investment.…

This paper challenges the prevailing conventional wisdom in the UK that the government is the sole architect of the education and training (E&T) system and that qualifications are the magic bullet for securing employment in the creative and cultural sector. It also argues that if policy-makers are serious about wanting to diversify the…

Examines how authors have looked at the future and probes the limits of forecasting. Looks at several futurists' views on the manufacturing industry and emerging occupations. (SK)

The last few years have revealed a growing concern about U.S. global competitiveness, and American schools have been called to account for failing to produce enough engineers and math and science workers to compete in the new global economy. The author argues that the education solutions offered to tackle this problem are too simplistic. Instead…

The number of jobs requiring four or more years of college education is projected to grow by 45 percent over the 1982-1995 period, compared to 25 percent for all jobs. (JOW)

Discusses the growing demand for library school graduates in special library environments and addresses the role of the library school in responding to that demand. (FM)

The Commission on Graduates of Foreign Nursing Schools was established to identify foreign nurse graduates who would be likely to pass the registered nurse licensing exam and to ensure high quality nursing care for the American public. (JOW)

The increased expansion of laser technology will create many new jobs and will require workers with many different skills. At the same time, some kinds of occupations will be adversely affected, due to increasing use of laser technology in a broad range of industries. (CT)