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American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, Washington, DC. Public Employee Dept. – 1989
Seventeen million people are employed in the delivery of government services in the United States, more than half of these in education, health care, and public safety. Others provide services related to defense, postal service, the environment, housing, and administration. Though 82 percent of public employees work for state and local government,…
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, Employment Patterns, Employment Practices, Expenditures
Detzner, Daniel F. – 1979
This paper describes the development of an undergraduate certificate program for direct service workers employed in the field of aging. Currently there is a lack of such training programs because the field of educational gerontology is fairly new, most programs focus on graduate degrees, and there is a widespread misconception that employees…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, College Curriculum, Educational Change
Download full textKasschau, Richard A. – 1978
Six independent study projects are offered to students in an introductory psychology course at the University of Houston. The projects include a term paper, book critique, independent research project, audio and/or visual demonstration, research assistance to a faculty member, and a community service option. The most popular of these projects is…
Descriptors: Course Content, Course Descriptions, Course Objectives, Course Organization
Hater, John J. – 1992
Work Keys (occupational tests developed by American College Testing) could support an employer's human resource function in a number of ways: (1) communicating to educators the skill requirements for an employer's particular jobs on a national basis; (2) providing students with a realistic preview of skills needed for jobs and an assessment of…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Basic Skills, Construct Validity, Content Validity
Connecticut State Board of Higher Education, Hartford. – 1985
Information on job openings for college graduates in Connecticut is provided. Projected openings in the state for 1985-1990 are indicated for nine major occupational categories: clerical workers, service workers, operatives, professional/technical occupations, crafts and kindred workers, sales workers, managers/officials/proprietors, laborers, and…
Descriptors: Clerical Occupations, College Graduates, Demand Occupations, Education Work Relationship
Penn, Roger; Holt, Richard – 2000
"Creative business services" have grown rapidly in Great Britain and are important in terms of their impact on the economy, including their contribution to international trade. They have helped and been boosted by such business changes as privatization, spread of information technology (IT), and contracting out of services. The sectors…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Advertising, Business Administration, Business Education
West, B. R. – 1980
This report describes an Indiana project to develop occupational matrices in six vocational service areas--agribusiness, business and office, health, home economics, marketing and distribution, and trades and industries. (These matrices cluster industry-verified job titles in an occupational field on the basis of task commonality.) These…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Agribusiness, Agricultural Education, Agricultural Supply Occupations
Maine Univ., Orono. Bangor Community Coll. – 1978
This report presents results of the third year of a project designed to enhance employability and career mobility of limited English speaking Franco-American adults in jobs providing services for the elderly. The first section states project objectives of the college-level, credit-bearing program conducted at five university campuses: (1) to…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Certification
Ministry of Education, Copenhagen (Denmark). – 1983
This information booklet on vocational education in Denmark begins with a listing of the eight fields of study into which vocational education is divided. These fields are (1) the construction industry; (2) the graphic industries; (3) commerce, clerical trades, and public administration; (4) the iron and metal industries; (5) agriculture,…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Apprenticeships, Building Trades, Cooperative Education
Liaroutzos, Oliver; Robichon, Marc – Training & Employment: A French Newsletter from Cereq and Its Associated Centres, 2000
The nature of basic computer occupations has changed greatly since the early 1980s. The changes reveal a shift in the respective roles of the sectors of industry associated with computer services (manufacturing and industrial computing). The service sector has adopted the procedures of industry in terms of organization, methods, and quality,…
Descriptors: Computers, Education Work Relationship, Educational Needs, Educational Policy
Kedney, Bob, Ed.; Parkes, David, Ed. – 1985
These eight case studies illustrate the capacity of United Kingdom Colleges of Further Education to respond effectively to training needs of local industry and commerce. Case 1 demonstrates shifts across a range of local authority colleges towards provision in the new information technologies and the service industries. Case 2 illustrates a…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Dislocated Workers, Distributive Education, Educational Needs
Lynton, Edith F.; Seldin, Joel R. – 1981
This report consists primarily of employer views on hiring practices and training needs in 17 occupations in five occupational areas (office work, distribution, service, communications, and crafts). Described first are the activities of the Labor Market Information Network that resulted in the compilation of data presented in the report. The…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Banking, Cable Television, Clerical Occupations
Brownstein, Leonard A. – 1985
La Salle University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) developed a three-track M.A. program in Spanish and bilingual studies which offers intensive training in Spanish and English and cross-cultural, interdisciplinary courses dealing with facets of Hispanic culture and Hispanics' adjustment problems in the United States. Track I is for bilingual…
Descriptors: Business Administration, Cross Cultural Training, English (Second Language), Higher Education
Ripper, Chris, Ed.; Russell, Russ, Ed. – 1983
A party of vocational educators from the United Kingdom (UK) traveled to the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) to examine West German vocational education and training for the hotel and catering industry. During the study, the investigators examined the training with respect to regulations, the content of training, and the structure of the…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Apprenticeships, Career Development, Comparative Analysis
Wacker, Gabrielle Banick, Ed. – 1987
The following are among the 45 papers included in this proceedings: "Labor Force Changes in the United States: Implications for Education and Training" (Kutscher); "Industry, Employment, and Family Income: Wisconsin's Status" (Stoner); "Future Demographic and Social Trends" (Zach); "International Business in…
Descriptors: Aerospace Industry, Agribusiness, Agriculture, Allied Health Occupations
