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Brooks, Kent; And Others – 1974
Due to recent industrial growth in Mississippi and the shortage of trained manpower in numerous occupations, start-up training programs have originated to provide a pretrained work force for new or expanding industry in the State. Each start-up training program is a joint effort between a new or expanding industry and a public educational…
Descriptors: Career Development, Community Involvement, Entry Workers, Industrial Training

Hamilton, Janette – Journal of Career Development, 1985
Discusses various aspects of the independent school: course offerings, hours per week in class (intensive study), hands-on training, open entry-open exit format, individualized attention, teacher qualifications, teacher student relationship, most popular courses, student placement in appropriate classes, accreditation, job placement, job…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Career Education, Course Content, Individualized Education Programs
Thornton, Helen S.; Zigmond, Naomi – Illinois Schools Journal, 1988
The current service delivery structure of vocational education does not hold at-risk learning-disabled (LD) students in school. LD graduates who complete skill-centered vocational courses are still vocationally disadvantaged when compared to nonhandicapped peers. Vocational education is not related to LD postschool success. (BJV)
Descriptors: Disabilities, Disadvantaged, Dropout Rate, Employment Patterns

Tribal College, 1999
Describes the success of Nebraska Indian Community College and Northeast Community College (Nebraska) in extending education to unemployed members of the Omaha reservation, who were also receiving welfare benefits, in order to help them build basic skills and self-confidence. Of the 34 students enrolled, 18 were employed within six weeks of…
Descriptors: Access to Education, American Indians, Community Colleges, Job Placement
McCambridge, James A.; Thornhill, Kathy L. – Assessment Update, 2005
The purpose of this article is to provide a snapshot of assessment practices for distance MBA programs in order to help readers gain a better understanding of this landscape. The authors present the findings of a study that they designed which consisted of a nineteen-item on-line questionnaire that surveyed distance MBA providers in regard to…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Program Effectiveness, Distance Education, Masters Programs
Roberts, Brandon; Padden, Jeffrey D. – 1998
This report explores how private sector employers are reacting to, responding to, and participating in welfare-to-work (WTW) efforts. Chapter 1 explains the study background and approach. Chapter 2 examines the environment, perspectives, experiences, and role of business in the WTW process and presents findings about employment patterns of welfare…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adults, Business Responsibility, Employment Patterns
Patton, Patricia L. – 1993
This report describes activities of Project Work, a federally funded program to provide vocational preparation skills and transition services for high school students with disabilities. The program served 150 students at a large urban high school in San Diego (California). Three major objectives were accomplished: (1) development of an…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Course Content, Curriculum Development, Disabilities
Kasambira, K. Paul – 1986
The role of colleges and universities in preparing students for work and leisure in the future is discussed. It is suggested that students of the future may be divided into three broad categories of traditional students, nontraditional students, and minorities. The role of higher education in preparing these groups for work and leisure activities…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Planning, College Role, Cooperative Education
Bauer, Robert – 1981
Validity of the Ohio Vocational Education Achievement Test Program (OVEATP) was studied by determining the correlation between test scores and job placement rates, job success rates, wages, and curriculum content. Performance on the 2 tests in the OVEATP--a general ability test and 1 of 25 occupational tests--was found to be moderately correlated.…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Administrator Attitudes, Correlation, Curriculum
Anderson, B. Harold; Naylor, Mary Lou – 1985
This handbook presents a model that helps vocational educators and other individuals, institutions, and agencies plan programs to maintain displaced workers' dignity and economic security. Section 1 discusses identification of displaced workers. Section 2 offers guidelines for developing a profile for a specific group of displaced workers. A list…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Adult Vocational Education, Career Change
Cape May County Vocational Schools, NJ. – 1981
The Marine Science Aquaculture Project is a program designed (1) to provide secondary and postsecondary students with job entry-level skills for employment in the shell fisheries industry; (2) to give students instruction and hands-on experience in the fundamental processes of seeding shell beds, monitoring and recording growth, and harvesting and…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Conservation (Environment), Entry Workers, Environmental Education
Johnson, Marion T. – 1980
This manual is a list of verified vocational education activities that relate to job development, job placement, and job follow-up/follow-through services. The activities incorporate information on employability skill development, occupations and labor market, job search training needed for the disadvantaged, student needs assessment, and student…
Descriptors: Activities, Career Development, Career Education, Disadvantaged Youth
Melville, Gary; Roesler, Elmo – 1975
The market research ideas and techniques presented here were developed for two reasons: (1) to appraise and project job market conditions that now or will later influence the employment opportunities for graduates of vocational and technical programs; and (2) to use the collected manpower data for immediate and long-range curricular planning. The…
Descriptors: Community Relations, Community Surveys, Curriculum Development, Educational Objectives
Sanders, Lester E. – 1967
To analyze and compare the cooperative occupational education and vocational-technical school programs and graduates in the Springfield, Missouri, public schools, information forms were sent to: (1) 268 graduates of the cooperative occupational education programs and 417 graduates of the vocational-technical school for the years 1961-1965, (2)…
Descriptors: Cooperative Education, Cost Effectiveness, Curriculum Evaluation, Doctoral Dissertations
Welch, Nancy; Sandler, Linda – 1999
Project STRIDE was conducted at Keys Community Center in Phoenix, Arizona, to create job linkages and prepare local people for jobs in distressed areas through relationships among residents, employers, and service providers. The project's components include a community jobs team, group employability training, goal-setting, computer training, job…
Descriptors: Adults, Community Development, Cooperative Programs, Education Work Relationship