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Download full textRichards, Wendy – 1987
The New South Wales Technical and Further Education (TAFE) system developed its New Opportunities for Women (NOW) course to provide mature women with greater access to technical occupations by making them aware of educational and employment opportunities related to technical fields. The primary objectives of the course are to help women accomplish…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Students, Basic Skills, Career Awareness
BRADDOCK, CLAYTON – 1966
BUSINESSMEN IN NEW ORLEANS CITED POOR SPEECH AMONG NEGRO APPLICANTS FOR SECRETARIAL AND STENOGRAPHIC POSITIONS AS THE MAJOR REASON FOR NOT HIRING THEM. AS A RESULT, ST. MARY'S DOMINICAN COLLEGE EMBARKED ON AN 8-MONTH PROGRAM IN 1965 TO TEACH STANDARD SPEECH TO 90 YOUNG WOMEN, 75 OF WHOM WERE NEGRO. STANDARD SPEECH WAS TAUGHT AS A SECOND LANGUAGE.…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Blacks, Clerical Workers, Employment Opportunities
Peer reviewedHull, Glynda – Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 1993
Reports on the experiences of students in a community college vocational program (approximately 60% African American and 30% Asian American) in banking and finance and the jobs students got and lost in the data center of a bank. Concerns about workers' literacy problems are explored. (SLD)
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Banking, Basic Skills, Black Studies
Kissam, Ed; Dorsey, Holda – 1997
This module, which may be used as the basis for a workshop or as a special topic unit in adult basic education or English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) courses, discusses women in nontraditional occupations. It is designed to help women consider the option of working in nontraditional occupations and to recognize that access to these jobs is…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Behavioral Objectives, Career Education
Baylis, Clifford A., Jr. – 1979
A two-year project was funded at the Community College of Allegheny County to develop a model strategy for eliminating math anxiety and increasing basic mathematics skills in women students. Part of the rationale for the project was to combat the sex-role stereotypes that have traditionally tracked women away from math- and/or science-oriented…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Basic Skills, Community Colleges, Counseling
Lee Coll., Baytown, TX. – 1995
Project LEEWAY was implemented in July 1992 at Lee College, in Texas, to recruit low-income, academically disadvantaged single parents, displaced homemakers, and single pregnant women into nontraditional technical programs and provide necessary support services to ensure success. This report describes the implementation, components, and results of…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Career Development, Career Guidance, Community Colleges
State Univ. of New York, Albany. Two Year Coll. Student Development Center. – 1980
Fifteen two-year college, vocational education projects are described, which, in the opinion of New York's Showcase of Excellence Program judges, are worthy of adaptation or replication by other institutions. For each of the projects which were selected from 83 nominations, objectives, activities, project impact, and personnel and material…
Descriptors: Adult Counseling, Allied Health Occupations, Basic Skills, College Programs
Hawaii Univ., Honolulu. Kapiolani Community Coll. – 1980
Data collected from student applications, personal history forms, class registrations, placement tests, and financial records were examined to derive a personal, academic, and financial profile of the 2,316 new and transfer students who entered Kapiolani Community College during Fall 1980. Selected findings indicate that: (1) most of the students…
Descriptors: Age, Allied Health Occupations Education, Basic Skills, Business Education
Lee Coll., Baytown, TX. – 1995
This document consists of the project reports for the first two program years of Project LEEWAY: Steps to Success, a program at Lee College (Baytown, Texas) designed to promote and facilitate access to vocational-technical education and training, especially for women in nontraditional careers. The 1993-94 report discusses the development of this…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Ancillary School Services, Basic Skills, Developmental Studies Programs
Hull, Glynda – 1992
This paper describes ethnographic research in a community college banking and finance program in the context of the opposing positions of the need for basic skills and preparation for jobs and the need for critical skills and preparation for citizenship in a democracy. After these positions are reviewed, research is described on students in the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Banking, Basic Skills, Blacks
Waubonsee Community Coll., Sugar Grove, IL. – 1990
The Waubonsee Community College Comprehensive Development Plan in Office Skills served 208 students by assessment of basic skills and referral to appropriate programs or help with job skills and referral to employment during the 18-month grant period from December 1988 through June 30, 1990. The target population was minority women or economically…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Basic Skills, Business English, Community Colleges
Oregon State Dept. of Education, Salem. – 1984
This teacher's guide is designed to help high school industrial arts teachers plan activities to develop their students' awareness of technology in our culture and the variety of related careers available to them. Discussed first are the objectives, scope, and sequence of industrial arts. Next, the special characteristics and needs of adolescents,…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Behavioral Objectives, Classroom Techniques, Course Descriptions
