Announces the decision of the first year the committee of the National Malcolm Baldrige Quality Award has accepted applications from the education and health care fields. Details how companies and associations are working with educational institutions to produce a more literate, technologically skilled work force. (JOW)

This paper offers a rationale for the concern with, and involvement of, vocational education in the topic of productivity in the workforce. It also suggests what differences might result from knowing more about the topic. (CT)

Four top corporate executives were invited to help school executives formulate the shape of future school/business partnerships and to name the single most meaningful educational change needed. Most emphasized business's supportive role in shaking up a failing system, turning around the nation's worst schools, and developing a competent labor…

Addresses the limited connection between education and human resource development (HRD). Suggests that preventive approaches to HRD can lead to better relationships between education and the private sector and can improve the preparation of students for the workplace of tomorrow. (JOW)

Industry and education need to build trusting relationships through communication, networking, and a sharing of resources. That will increase the likelihood that the United States will have an effective work force for the twenty-first century. (Author/JOW)

Human capital theory postulates that individuals and society invest in people to increase financial and nonmonetary income in the future. Liberal education, the study of a range of disciplines that develop lifetime intellectual skills and personal abilities, meets the standards of human capital investment. (MLW)

Describes existing and envisioned national system of innovation in South Africa; status of cooperative research in science, engineering, and technology; the government's Technology and Human Resources for Industry Programme; and future needs, such as closer higher education-business links and a greater market focus for research and development.…

Examines a number of popular conceptions and misconceptions about the forces changing the nature of the American economy. Explores the effects of the real forces on the mission and methods of community, junior, and technical colleges. Calls for an educational partnership between the business community and the community college. (DMM)

Increasingly, youth are unable to demonstrate minimum competencies in job skills and productive attitudes. Service and white-collar jobs are replacing manual jobs and youth lack the social skills necessary to function in these jobs. Increased attention to cooperative education, which integrates academic/career interests with productive work…

Examines the impact of community college programs on business and industry through the preparation of a trained labor force. Notes existing partnerships between industry and postsecondary education, but concludes that new linkages are necessary if community colleges are to provide leadership for change through labor and industrial development…

Concerns about adaptation of the German apprenticeship model for the United States include (1) potential to intensify college-bound/noncollege-bound tracking; (2) importance of local-level commitment in the United States; and (3) national standards and accountability measures. The German system could be transformed at the local level rather than…

By committing to the development of partnerships between businesses and their institutions, board members will reinforce higher education's role in making the country competitive again. The result will be a nation whose workers are continuously educated and a university whose role in workforce development is more widely understood and valued.…

Vocational education can contribute to an improved United States productivity by producing an effective work force. People together with technology are two major factors in improving productivity, and they must be integrated. Industry is in the forefront of the efforts to improve productivity. It has encouraged management in long-range strategic…

Proposes five targets for the organizational work of the Putting America Back to Work project: community forums on the new economic agenda; business/industry/labor/government/education coalitions; planning for community economic development; creation of a transfer-of-technology network; and community education and training plan development. (DMM)

Compares current U.S. productivity to productivity in two previous decades and to productivity in Japan and Germany. Suggests that productivity comes from three groups of factors: (1) human resources, (2) technology and capital investment, and (3) the external environment. Recommends that vocational educators should more aggressively sell their…