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Download full textAllen, Anne Marie, Ed. – 2000
A survey of 456 further education (FE) colleges in England and Wales identified the FE sector's activities in providing effective training and development to smaller and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Of 120 colleges that responded, 87.5 percent provided direct training to SMEs; 79.2 percent were developing or acquiring teaching or training…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Business Administration Education, Cooperative Programs, Coordination
Carreiro, Jose; Guffey, J. Stephen; Rampp, Lary C. – 1999
This study identifies community colleges that have staff development programs for part-time teachers, determines specific aspects included in these programs, and discovers which components these programs have in common. It also presents a paradigm, or suggested design, that should be contained in any effective staff development program for…
Descriptors: Adjunct Faculty, College Faculty, Community Colleges, Faculty Development
Elgin Community Coll., IL. – 1992
This report evaluates the Fox Valley Consortium for Job Training and Placement of the Homeless which involves five educational, social service, and community organizations in activities to facilitate the educational development and financial independence of homeless participants. The consortium consists of: the Community Crisis Center (area…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Agency Cooperation, Community Colleges, Community Programs
Stroup, Phillip – Office of Student Services Brief, 1996
The Business and Education Transition Alliance (BETA) is a model school-to-work transition program that was developed to facilitate the school-to-work transition of at-risk youth in the Boulder Valley School District in Colorado. Among the BETA program's specific goals are the following: increase students' knowledge/understanding of demands of the…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Education Work Relationship, Guidelines, High Risk Students
Hall, Shirley L. – 1996
The Workforce Education and Development Off-Campus Degree Program of Southern Illinois University-Carbondale allows military and civilian students to complete bachelor of science degrees in education with a major in work force education and development at 1 civilian site and 16 military bases throughout the United States. Approximately 1,000…
Descriptors: Adult Programs, Community Colleges, Educational Practices, Experiential Learning
Herschbach, Dennis R.; And Others – 1992
This report examines the problem of implementing and sustaining vocational education and training (VET) programs in developing countries. It is intended to provide U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) officers with operational guidelines for the development of future projects. In conducting the study, over 50 projects conducted by…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Educational Finance, Educational Improvement, Educational Policy
Maine State Council on Vocational Education, Hallowell. – 1993
This report presents the results of a federally mandated biennial evaluation of the effectiveness of the coordination between vocational education and the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) in achieving the purposes of the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act and JTPA. An overview describes the Maine vocational system,…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Coordination, Correctional Education, Employment Programs
Nubler, Irmgard – 1992
A research project in the Ivory Coast, Kenya, and Tanzania evaluated the cost effectiveness of management training seminars for women entrepreneurs in the informal sector. Women, a large and growing part of entrepreneurs, had less access to needed resources, skills, and information than men. Reasons for failure to study the cost effectiveness and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Business Administration, Business Education, Cost Effectiveness
Benton, Lauren; Noyelle, Thierry – 1992
Most industrialized nations of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) have entered a new economic era characterized by new industries, new forms of production and competition, and a much higher premium on skills. Those with low levels of literacy and basic workplace skills find it increasingly difficult to obtain or…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Developed Nations
Forrester, Keith, Ed.; Ward, Kevin, Ed. – 1991
This book contains 12 chapters, each of which is a case study or a commentary on the unemployment of the 1980s and early 1990s and on the programs devised to retrain workers. Titles and authors are as follows: "Understanding Unemployment: A Critical Overview of Labour Market Trends, Employment, and Unemployment: (John Hughes); "A…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Case Studies, Demonstration Programs, Developed Nations
Beder, Hal; And Others – 1992
A reflective self-assessment process was used to evaluate Project RISE, a 1-year, federally funded workplace literacy project. The goal of the evaluation was to help staff understand their collective experience in a way that might help them to serve their clients more effectively in the future. A list of the most critical problems faced by staff…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Cooperative Programs, Employer Employee Relationship
North Dakota State Council on Vocational Education, Bismarck. – 1993
An evaluation assessed the effectiveness and adequacy of North Dakota's vocational-technical system in carrying out the purposes of the Carl Perkins Act and the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) and the coordination that took place between the acts. The evaluation that centered on schools' and institutions' efforts to fulfill the purposes of the…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Articulation (Education), Cooperative Programs, Coordination
Bailis, Lawrence N.; And Others – 1991
An interim evaluation analyzed the first year of operation of the Job Training for the Homeless Demonstration Program (JTHDP). Data were collected from quarterly progress reports and evaluation reports submitted by 32 local JTHDP projects. The projects exceeded planned levels of clients served and achieved other positive outcomes, including…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Agency Cooperation, Alcohol Abuse, Cooperative Programs
Indian Hills Community Coll., Ottumwa, IA. – 1991
A program at Indian Hills Community College (Ottumwa, Iowa) consisted of a sex equity component aimed to prepare women to enter nontraditional occupations and a building trades component to enable electrical workers to upgrade their skills. Both of the targeted groups underwent assessment and upgrading coordinated through the college's SUCCESS…
Descriptors: Building Trades, College Programs, Demonstration Programs, Electrical Occupations
Muraskin, Lana D. – 1989
The National Assessment of Vocational Education (NAVE) examined how the federal law was implemented and federal funds were distributed under the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act of 1984. Data were reported on targeting of resources among and within states and on the uses of federal funds, and implications were drawn from the findings. The…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Compliance (Legal), Disabilities, Disadvantaged Youth
