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Direct linkMiller, Linda – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2008
Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) is now firmly on government agendas in many countries, including England, and the need to develop a professional workforce is generally agreed. The reform of the children's workforce in England acknowledges that increasing the skills and competence of this workforce is critical to its success. Two new…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Professional Development
Peer reviewedMiller, Linda; Acutt, Bruce; Kellie, Deborah – International Journal of Training and Development, 2002
Responses from 97 of 500 British employers identified minimum and preferred qualifications for new employees. A substantial number specified no minimum level. Most do not value National Vocational Qualifications and favor academic qualifications for higher-status occupations. Those who specified minimum qualifications were more likely to train…
Descriptors: Degrees (Academic), Employer Attitudes, Employment Qualifications, Entry Workers
Acutt, Bruce; Becker, Karen; Hyland, Paul; Miller, Linda – International Journal of Training and Development, 2006
This paper reports on the outcomes of a replication study of a survey of British employers that requested information on the qualifications sought when recruiting employees and on subsequent training and development. While the British survey was interested in the uptake and use of the British National Vocational Qualifications, the study reported…
Descriptors: Employees, Qualifications, Skilled Workers, Foreign Countries
Miller, Linda; Hillage, Jim; Newton, Becci; Jagger, Nick – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2005
This article reviews recent policies and government initiatives that have aimed to improve the uptake of vocational qualifications amongst hard-to-reach groups in the working population. The Employer Training Pilots and the Sector Skills Pilots have been designed to trial new ways of engaging employers in training and encouraging the take-up of…
Descriptors: Qualifications, Vocational Education, Educational Strategies, Educational Policy
Miller, Linda; Smith, Alice Paige – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2004
This paper considers practitioners' beliefs about the literacy curriculum in four early years settings in England and the impact on the literacy experiences of the children in these settings. All four settings were working with the Curriculum Guidance for the Foundation Stage (QCA/DfEE, 2000) and represent the range of provision in England. One…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Parent Participation, Parent School Relationship, Foreign Countries
Miller, Linda – 1983
The role of female educators in the Brazilian Amazon community of Itaituba (population in 1970: 12,690) has fallen short of that envisioned by the policymakers and social scientists in the early 1970s, as indicated by research conducted in 1976-77. Based on the "human capital" theory, better-trained local teachers were to train the local…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Community Role, Developing Nations, Economic Development
