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Direct linkYamini Bellare; Adam R. Smith; Kelcee Cochran; Samuel Garcia-Lopez – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2024
Higher education opens doors to job enhancement and economic benefits to adult learners. Despite facing multiple barriers such as life-work-school time conflicts and financial constraints, adult learners continue to seek higher education and certifications. Rural employers also benefit from supporting degree completion or job-specific…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Adult Education, Employers, Employer Attitudes
Download full textBennett, Vanessa; Lee, Sandra; McDonnell, Rachel; Ostrye, Mary – Jobs for the Future, 2020
In this brief, JFF (Jobs for the Future) explores what training providers can do to adapt their programming in ways that put the country on a path to an equitable economic recovery following the COVID-19 pandemic. The authors conducted research to examine what education and training providers can do to design programs that emphasize equity and…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Trainers, Economic Development
Southern Regional Education Board (SREB), 2019
Students need learning experiences connected with the world of work to equip them to enter the workforce and secure good jobs. This report provides an overview of funding for career and technical education and a detailed look at Career and Technical Education (CTE) funding models in Arkansas, Indiana, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina and West…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Educational Finance, Financial Support, State Aid
National Governors' Association, Washington, DC. – 1992
This booklet contains descriptions of the approach of each state member of the Action Team on Lifelong Learning in meeting the challenge to prepare and upgrade the skills of the work force. Each one-page discussion is followed by the name, address, and telephone number of a contact person in the state. The reported approaches of 10 states…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Articulation (Education), Competition, Economic Progress
Jobs for the Future, Inc., West Somerville, MA. – 1989
This report summarizes the work of the Jobs for Indiana's Future (JIF) program, designed to provide the Indiana Commission on Vocational and Technical Education (ICVTE) with assistance in planning for the future by enhancing ICVTE's capacity to guide Indiana's human capital investment strategy. The JIF program undertook an extensive analysis of…
Descriptors: Economic Change, Economic Development, Economic Research, Educational Improvement
Indiana Univ., Bloomington. Vocational Education Services. – 1983
The major goal of this guide is to provide easily understood information on the basic characteristics of individuals classified as special needs learners (in this case, disadvantaged and handicapped persons) and on basic methods that have been proven to be effective with them. Updated from a previous publication, this handbook is targeted to…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Disadvantaged, Educational Resources, Employment Programs
