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Continuing Vocational Education in Germany: Foundations, Sponsors, the New Media, Quality Assurance.
Download full textTapia, Ivan, Ed. – Bildung und Wissenschaft, 2001
This issue focuses on continuing vocational education (CVE) in Germany. Articles are: "Lifelong Learning in the Knowledge Society;""The Foundations of CVE in Germany"; "Who Takes Part in Continuing Education?"; "Hail Maria! A Helping Hand for Female Academics Seeking Promotion"; "Sponsors and Forms of…
Descriptors: Caregiver Training, Computer Literacy, Computer Uses in Education, Continuing Education
Forrester, Keith; And Others – 1995
This book examines workplace learning in the United Kingdom within the context of the changing world of education and training, adult learners/learning, and stakeholder roles in employee development. Discussed in the first three chapters are the following topics: the current debates over vocational education and training and their links to…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Case Studies, Educational Needs
Flower, Fred, Ed.; Russell, Russ, Ed. – 1982
A party of vocational educators from the United Kingdom (UK) traveled to the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) to observe the role of industrial tutors in providing technical training to German workers. During their study, the investigators focused their attention on the role of the meister in the vocational education and training system in…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Change Strategies, Comparative Analysis, Cooperative Programs
Sredl, Henry J. – 1982
Work force development in the Peoples' Republic of China (PRC) is affected by sundry but interrelated factors. Included among these are the following: (1) the PRC's population of one billion people; (2) a recent history of political turmoil and violence, resulting in profound changes in national leadership and vacillation in national policy; (3)…
Descriptors: Bureaucracy, Economic Factors, Educational Needs, Educational Practices
Goldstein, Harold; Fraser, Bryna Shore – 1985
Data were collected on the training required by people who work with computers, and these data were then used as a basis from which to identify major issues that must be addressed by policymakers concerned with developing computer education and training programs. A total of 196 employers, supervisors, workers, professional societies, unions,…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Computers, Dislocated Workers, Educational Needs
Malloch, Margaret; Martino, John; Waterhouse, Peter; Townsend, Ray – 2003
Australian employers' appraisal and use of vocational education and training (VET) qualifications were examined through case studies of 15 small, medium, and large organizations in 8 of Australia's "old" and "new" economy industries. Data were collected through interviews with management/employer representatives, middle…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Case Studies, Competence, Competency Based Education
Owens, Thomas R.; Monthey, Wanda – 1983
A study examined the views of private sector employers in Oregon on vocational education. During the study, researchers mailed questionnaires to a stratified random sample of 1,500 employers throughout Oregon. In addition, they surveyed another 140 employers who were identified as hiring the largest numbers of vocational education completers in…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Coordination, Curriculum, Education Work Relationship
Sticht, Thomas G. – 1983
Research indicates that many illiterate youth and adults who become parents are unable to transfer high levels of oral language skills or to model literacy use for their children. Consequently, their children begin school without the readiness skills necessary to learn to read and thus continue a cycle of family illiteracy and employment problems.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs
Anderson, Carmell F. – 1980
From its beginnings the history of adult education has been entwined with the evolutionary struggle between labor and management for workplace control. The history of worker's education is, in reality, the history of two types of education--worker's education under worker's control and labor-management adult education under company control. Each…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Continuing Education, Education Work Relationship, Educational Administration
Palfreeman, Annabel, Ed. – 1996
These proceedings contain the following papers: "Linking Industry Training with Language and Literacy" (Cassandra Parkinson); "Numeracy: Essential and a Priority? An ANT's (Adult Numeracy Teacher's) Journey" (Dave Tout); "Teaching, Learning and Assessment: An Essential Symbiosis" (David Clarke); "The Politics of…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Educators, Adult Literacy, Coordination
Falk, Ian, Ed. – 2002
This document presents 13 papers that are intended to serve as a professional development resource for language, literacy, and numeracy practitioners and others involved in enterprise-based training provision in Australia and to provide a framework for evaluating workplace language, literacy, and numeracy programs. The following papers are…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Adult Education, Case Studies, Competence
Dyrenfurth, Michael J. – 2000
The capabilities expected of technological workers upon entry into employment were examined. Data were collected through a review of the pertinent literature and an in-person, instrument-guided interview survey of a representative sample of representatives of approximately 250 manufacturing enterprises in nine sectors. The literature review…
Descriptors: Competence, Definitions, Education Work Relationship, Educational Needs
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. – 2003
The General Accounting Office (GAO) examined private-sector workforce training practices for information technology (IT) and non-IT professionals. Data were collected from the following sources: a literature review; discussions with academic and professional authorities; interviews with executives and managers at leading companies regarding their…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Case Studies, Corporate Education, Delivery Systems
Walsh, Kenneth; Green, Andy; Steedman, Hilary – 1993
The impact of developments in work organizations on the skilling process in the United Kingdom was studied through a macro analysis of available statistical information about the development of workplace training in the United Kingdom and case studies of three U.K. firms. The macro analysis focused on the following: initial training arrangements;…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Case Studies, Continuing Education, Education Work Relationship
Onstenk, Jeroen; Voncken, Eva – 1993
The impact of developments in work organizations on the skilling process in the Netherlands was studied through a macro analysis of available statistical information about the development of education for work in the Netherlands and case studies of three Dutch firms. The macro analysis focused on the following: vocational education in the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Case Studies, Education Work Relationship, Educational Attitudes
