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Peer reviewedKaufman, H. G. – Journal of Continuing Higher Education, 1994
Retraining of employed technical professionals as an alternative to termination is being used by a small but growing number of firms. Case studies of involuntary and voluntary retraining generated guidelines for cost-effective programs: management support, candidate screening, career counseling, and realistic job previews. (SK)
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Dislocated Workers, Higher Education, Job Layoff
Blai, Boris, Jr. – 1983
The importance of the link between education and work is examined along with current trends, including employment opportunities, the evolving structure of the American economy, and productivity. The positive, direct benefits apparent between work and education are that sound schooling benefits the individual, the employer, and the nation's…
Descriptors: College Role, Continuing Education, Economic Climate, Education Work Relationship
Download full textWonacott, Michael E.; Hamilton, James B. – 1983
This document reports the results of work in identifying promising approaches to the provision of technological update to vocational/technical teachers and barriers as well as facilitators to the use of those approaches. (Technological update refers to the technical, as opposed to pedagogical, knowledge and skills needed by vocational teachers to…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Program Descriptions, Program Implementation
Theriot, Rosemary; Williams, Palisa D. – 1988
From February through March 1987, a questionnaire entitled "A Survey of Business and Industrial Personnel Educational Needs" was administered to factory workers. Data were collected from 475 blue-collar employees at four leading manufacturing plants in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Survey results indicated that nontraditional students may not be…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Bachelors Degrees, Blue Collar Occupations, Demonstration Programs
Selleck, Laura J. – 1983
Implications for universities of high technology industries and the labor market are unclear. There is a need to ease the transition for those categories of workers who will be affected: women, low- and medium-skill workers in manufacturing, and certain categories of middle-level managers. The provision of highly qualified personnel is the…
Descriptors: Adult Students, College Role, Continuing Education, Education Work Relationship
Queeney, Donna S.; Manz, Karen P. – 1979
A study of the involvement of continuing higher education in professional and occupational regulation should focus on the growth of practice regulation, roles of higher education, and issues and areas for cooperation in meeting the practitioners' needs. Knowledge obsolescence and the definition of more specific fields have led to a heightened need…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Certification, Competence, Cooperation
National Governors' Association, Washington, DC. – 1992
This publication discusses reforms in lifelong learning undertaken in the 11 states represented on the National Governors' Association Action Team on Lifelong Learning. It is a catalog of initiatives to create greater opportunities for youth and adults to obtain skills needed to compete effectively in a global economy. The reforms discussed in…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Accountability, Adult Programs, Adult Vocational Education
