To advance an emerging frontier in human resource development (HRD) research, national HRD (NHRD), this study explored the subject by focusing on a key area of HRD, management development (MD) in the China context. Taking a system and holistic perspective, the study identified three critical challenges facing Chinese managers and China MD in the…

The National Commission for Employment Policy (NCEP) is an independent federal agency authorized under the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) of 1982. NCEP analyzes employment and training issues and policies and recommends to the President and Congress areas in which policy or programmatic changes would assist the U.S. work force in becoming…

In England's recent history the country's best self-interest has been to provide more, better, and longer education. Following the post-war population growth, the raising of school-learning age, and free secondary education for all, the massive rise in further education was a part of the general increase in full-time higher education. Changing…

This desk reference is designed to help Employment Service and other human resources personnel in providing manpower services to minority group members. While emphasizing the need for affirmative action with constant effort to improve training and employment opportunities for minorities, the document describes legal, economic, and cultural aspects…

Senator Javits writes that Congress and the federal government should promote the concept of lifelong education. Stating that present legislation to construct a comprehensive education-work policy is insufficient, he proposes tax legislation to expand exclusions for employer-sponsored education. Other proposed incentive legislation for training…

The director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) describes that agency's history, its focus, research and training programs undertaken in the 1970s, and current controversy over the role of NIMH and the federal government in mental health manpower development. (GC)

Expansion of public employment is probably a wise strategy, but it is not above question. Certainly the evidence of its effectiveness is mixed, and it has hardly been subjected to careful analysis. (Author)

A review of proposed employment strategies and priorities of Ray Marshall, Secretary of Labor, with regard to training programs, governmental subsidy programs, apprenticeships, private sector jobs, etc. (WL)

Nearly all tertiary institutions in Hong Kong now offer associate degrees; the intent is a broad-based science and humanities curriculum with the aim of achieving the government goal of increasing access to higher education. However, a narrowly focused curriculum still predominates and few associate degree recipients view it as a terminal…

Implications of current economic, social, and educational trends for proprietary schools are (1) increased emphasis on lifelong education; (2) need for special support for at-risk groups; (3) imperative for school-business partnerships; (4) increased competition in postsecondary education; and (5) need for better institutional planning and…

Reviews education and training aspects of Clinton proposals and recommends funding of prenatal care, Head Start, and Women, Infants, and Children (WIC); parenting training for WIC, Head Start, and welfare recipient parents; revival of career education; expansion of cooperative education and tech prep; assessment of national standards and…

This article presents a critique of the 'high skills' argument which, in the international literature, presents a high skill strategy as an adjunct and necessary condition for the successful expansion of human resources development (HRD) alongside social market institutions and 'joined up' policy. For a developing country such as South Africa,…

This report continues the California Postsecondary Education Commission's ongoing examination of the nexus between postsecondary education and workforce development, focusing on the projected needs for skills and knowledge in a 21st century global economy. This is the second in a series of policy briefs developed for that project. The first brief…

This paper explores the landscape of training and development in the Republic of Ireland, a country with an impressive economic record in recent years. Both the Irish economic context and business context are explored. The national system for training and development and the surrounding policy and strategy context are set down. Survey data are…