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Download full textNduro, Kwabena; Anderson, Isaac Kofi; Peprah, James Adu; Twenefour, Frank B. K. – World Journal of Education, 2015
In today's world of stiff competition in the labour market, coupled with advanced technology, industries require of students to have job experience before employing them. The challenge here is that the experience being required is not taught in the lecture rooms. The reality is that, it is only gained though hands on the job, thus real world…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Industrial Training, College Programs, Vocational Education
Bakar, Ab Rahim; Mohamed, Shamsiah; Hamzah, Ramlah – International Education Studies, 2013
This study was performed to identify the employability skills of technical students from the Industrial Training Institutes (ITI) and Indigenous People's Trust Council (MARA) Skills Training Institutes (IKM) in Malaysia. The study sample consisted of 850 final year trainees of IKM and ITI. The sample was chosen by a random sampling procedure from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Employment Potential, Job Skills, Industrial Training
Kusy, Mitchell Edward, Jr. – 1986
A study compared various types of training evaluation methods to determine which method elicited the greatest management support of the training function among corporate managers. A case study approach was used to compare four training evaluation methods: reaction, learning, behavior, and results. The study population consisted of 90 part-time…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Demography, Educational Attitudes, Evaluation Criteria
Zemsky, Robert; Meyerson, Martin – 1985
A study examined the training provided to workers by 20 firms across the Nation. In the 12 years between 1969 and 1981, American firms increased their expenditures on employee training from $2.4 to $3.5 million according to an analysis of data gathered by Current Population Surveys. In the same period, members of the American Society for Training…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Delivery Systems, Demography, Educational Needs
Johnson, John A. – 1981
A study examined the following four alternatives to traditional vocational-technical high schools for delivering vocational education: apprenticeship programs, Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) programs, cooperative education, and industrial training. Two survey instruments were created specifically for the study: (1) a worker…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Comparative Analysis, Competence, Cooperative Education
Long, Huey B.; And Others – 1996
This document contains the following papers examining current developments in self-directed learning: "Self-Directed Learning: Challenges and Opportunities" (Huey B. Long); "Examination of Self-Directed Learning Readiness and Selected Demographic Variables of Top Female Executives" (Lucy M. Guglielmino); "Enhancing…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Continuing Education
Twining, John – 1993
This monograph examines vocational education and training (VET) in the United Kingdom. Section 1 outlines the UK's political and administrative structure, population and employment, and economy. The following are among the aspects of the UK's VET system discussed in section 2: evolution of the system; organization of education and training (the…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Adult Education, Career Guidance, Continuing Education
