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Ohio Board of Regents, 2014
This report examines the status of college and university practices in skills areas that are important to preparing students for careers and the workforce. Some of these practices address the priorities expressed by Ohio businesses while other practices require modification to reflect current workforce demands. Beyond the assessment of current…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Career Development, Education Work Relationship, Career Readiness
Straková, Jana – Educational Research, 2015
Background: In its communications, the European Commission stresses the importance of vocational education and endorses apprenticeship training. Educational systems that have dual tracks of academic alongside vocational learning routes have been shown to generate better labour market outcomes for school leavers and smooth the school-to-work…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Apprenticeships, Track System (Education)
Oates, Jane; Ladd, John V. – Techniques: Connecting Education and Careers (J1), 2011
Registered Apprenticeship has long been known in the United States as a great training option for workers looking to learn a new skill and become an expert-level crafts person in their trade. Be it traditional industries or those that are only now becoming better known, the apprenticeship model has long been part of the training strategies…
Descriptors: Industry, Apprenticeships, Education Work Relationship, Employment
Cimino, Carl – Techniques: Connecting Education and Careers (J1), 2011
The Loyd E. Williams Pipe Trade Training Center in San Jose, California, prides itself in going beyond the scope of traditional apprenticeship by offering a comprehensive "Journey Level Training Catalog," thus encouraging journeyman graduates to continue their training. The catalog contains a full slate of courses that can be utilized to…
Descriptors: Refresher Courses, Apprenticeships, Vocational Education, Job Skills
Macey, Emma – National Literacy Trust, 2013
This report looks at whether employers think schools are equipping young people with the literacy skills required for the workplace. It is primarily based on secondary literature sources and introductory conversations with a small sample of key employers and agencies. A complementary report presents evidence on young people's views on literacy and…
Descriptors: Employer Attitudes, Employers, Job Skills, Literacy
Hargreaves, Jo; Blomberg, Davinia – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2015
The nature of apprenticeships is changing. Increasing proportions of adult apprentices are prompting demand for various alternative pathways to completion. One option for an alternative pathway to accelerate completion is the use of recognition of prior learning (RPL) to identify existing skills and knowledge in combination with gap training. This…
Descriptors: Adults, Adult Learning, Building Trades, Apprenticeships
Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education, US Department of Education, 2018
The "Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006" ("Perkins IV") requires states to report to the Department of Education each year on their progress in achieving their adjusted performance levels--negotiated with and approved by the Department--on the core indicators of performance (core indicators) described in…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Vocational Education, Federal Legislation, Accountability
Doe, Heather – Division of Community Colleges and Workforce Preparation, Iowa Department of Education, 2017
Since 1998, the Iowa Department of Education's Division of Community Colleges and Workforce Preparation has compiled and published "The Annual Condition of Iowa's Community Colleges." This report is designed to help Iowans understand the challenges and opportunities community colleges face in providing quality programs to meet the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Enrollment, Full Time Students, Part Time Students
BC Student Outcomes, 2015
Student feedback is an essential component of a high-quality, relevant education system. BC Student Outcomes provides that feedback by surveying former post-secondary students who took baccalaureate programs, apprenticeship technical training, and diploma, certificate, or associate degree programs. In 2015, almost 28,000 former students were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Surveys, College Students, Academic Degrees
National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2016
"Research Messages 2013" provides a summary of the research published in 2015 by the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER). The research published in 2015 covered a wide variety of the themes, reflecting the relevance of the VET sector to the Australian economy and its increasingly important role in the higher…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Educational Research, Foreign Countries, Employment Qualifications
Rao, Nitya; Hossain, Munshi Israil – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 2012
In a context of globalization, individual aspirations transcend the local as people seek to move to distant locations to fulfill their own as well as larger social expectations. Formal schooling often does not lead to the acquisition of appropriate knowledge or relevant skills to attaining these aspirations, making students opt for vocational or…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Migration, Global Approach, Males
Doe, Heather – Division of Community Colleges and Workforce Preparation, Iowa Department of Education, 2016
Each year, Iowa's 15 community colleges submit data on enrollment on the 10th business day of the fall semester. Some highlights from this report focus on: (1) Iowa's Community Colleges; (2) Credit Enrollment and Demographics; (3) Online Enrollment; (4) Joint Enrollment; (5) Credit Student Awards; (6) Credit Programs; (7) Non-Credit Enrollment and…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Enrollment, Full Time Students, Part Time Students
Ohio Board of Regents, 2013
This Sixth Condition Report represents a snapshot of a moment in time. It focuses on critical enabling conditions and initial implementation steps for a strategically chosen subset of the action steps embedded in the Task Force's full slate of recommendations. As such, this report serves four essential purposes: (1) It identifies a selective set…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Career Development, Education Work Relationship, Career Readiness
BC Student Outcomes, 2013
The Skills and Training Plan (announced September 2012) projects that there will be nearly one million job openings between 2012 and 2020 in British Columbia. Of these openings, 43 percent will need trades and technical training. It is anticipated that there will be a cumulative gap of 22,000 to 32,000 technical and trades workers in the province.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Apprenticeships, Employment Opportunities, On the Job Training
Boroff, Karen E.; Riley, Elven – American Journal of Business Education, 2012
The authors present a case analysis of how a business school brought about curriculum innovation. The school used something borrowed, specifically experiential learning laboratories, and something new to attain measureable curriculum change, with only modest investments. The authors urge that the nimbleness of a medium-size school committed to…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Job Skills, Business Administration Education, Labor Market