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Joseph, Earl C. – 1984
A futurist addresses two questions concerning world peace and the implications of using robots. In the section on peace (part 1), recommendations for world peace include: (1) implementing peace education as a mandatory part of education; (2) establishing a Department of Peace in each country to create a societal infrastructure for implementing…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Change Strategies, Employment Opportunities, Futures (of Society)
Stone, James R., III; Dahlgren, Judith – 1989
A study identified alternative models of short-term upgrading and updating training for employed workers in business and industry. In phase 1, a literature review provided the basis for a nine-cell matrix that conceptualized alternative models of industry-based training as a function of the skill level the training addressed and the degree of…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Inplant Programs, Models, Off the Job Training
National Society of Professional Engineers, Washington, DC. – 1972
The Skills Conversion Project conducted by the National Society of Professional Engineers sought to study the transition mechanisms required to transfer available technical manpower from aerospace and defense industries into other areas of employment in private industry and public service. Fourteen study teams assessed the likelihood of future…
Descriptors: Administration, Aerospace Industry, Career Change, Employment Potential
Barrett, Gerald V.; And Others – 1970
The "Exercise Future" questionnaire, which covers individual preferences and expectations about conditions in one's future sphere of work, was completed by 143 research and development scientists, engineers, and managers as part of an experiment to test effects on subsequent self-development activities. Three fourths saw the importance of…
Descriptors: Administrators, Attitudes, Bibliographies, Educational Needs

Lenhardt, Gero – Comparative Education Review, 1978
The author analyzes the development of continuing training legislation in West Germany since 1969, especially the Labor Promotion Act Arbeitsfoerderungsgesetz (AFG). Issues discussed include: occupational mobility in relation to skills, trainee demographic characteristics, AFG funding changes, and the social consequences of unemployment and…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Capitalism, Educational Change, Educational Policy

Stuart, Corinne T. – Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing, 1975
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Certification, Compulsory Education, Educational Problems
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Div. of Human Resources. – 1989
A study examined the Canadian-American Plant Closing Demonstration Project (CAPCDP) to assess the influence of the labor-management approach on factors critical to project success and to identify practices that enabled the labor-management committees set up under the project to work better. CAPCDPs in Idaho, Michigan, New Jersey, and Vermont were…
Descriptors: Dislocated Workers, Job Layoff, Job Search Methods, Labor Economics
Dartnell Corp., Chicago, IL. – 1990
A survey was conducted of the want ad sections of Sunday newspapers in 14 cities in the United States and of Saturday newspapers in 3 Canadian cities in February 1990 to determine what qualifications employers required of secretaries. Data from 4,500 individual ads were tabulated. The survey tracked 34 types of information in secretarial ads…
Descriptors: Adults, Business Skills, Employer Attitudes, Employment Experience
Theodossin, Ernest – 1984
The most striking general features of the Danish education system are these: a high degree of centralization, learner-centeredness, open access, precisely defined conditions of service for teachers, and virtually non-existent training for educational managers. Education is compulsory for children between the ages of 7 and 16 years. Optional…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Apprenticeships, Dislocated Workers, Foreign Countries
Mazmanian, Paul E. – 1977
This monograph, organized in two major parts, covers the role of educational needs assessment in adult education and its role in continuing medical education (CME). The first part discusses the concept of educational need and its relationship to classic program planning models and naturalistic program planning. It then covers various assessment…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Data Collection, Definitions, Educational Needs
National Society of Professional Engineers, Washington, DC. – 1972
The Skills Conversion Project conducted by the National Society of Professional Engineers sought to study the transition mechanisms required to transfer available technical manpower from aerospace and defense industries into other areas of employment in private industry and public service. Fourteen study teams assessed the likelihood of future…
Descriptors: Aerospace Industry, Air Pollution, Career Change, Employment Potential
New York State Education Dept., Albany. Div. of Special Occupational Services. – 1973
The report presents a review of institutional manpower training programs conducted in the State during the 1973 Federal fiscal year. Two major manpower training objectives are used for the basis of the report: to provide education, supportive services, and training opportunities for unemployed and underemployed individuals and to provide education…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Disadvantaged, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Programs
Wells, Jean A. – 1970
To determine the repercussions of scientific and technological progress on the employment of women and their conditions of work, the Women's Bureau used available statistical data from 1958-68 to study: (1) Employment and Unemployment, (2) Vocational Guidance and Training, (3) Training and Retraining of Older Women, (4) Remuneration, (5) Hours of…
Descriptors: Automation, Career Guidance, Child Care, Employment
Whitney, Karen A. – School Library Media Annual (SLMA), 1992
Addresses three issues raised by Ann Irving in her article in this yearbook: the unique contributions of a librarian to the processes of teaching and learning; the deskilling of the librarian; and the future of the school library media professional. Information literacy and the influence of information technologies are also discussed. (LRW)
Descriptors: Change Agents, Elementary Secondary Education, Futures (of Society), Information Technology
Lankard, Bettina A. – 1991
Economic, social, and technological changes highlight the value of human resources and employee training. Acquiring the knowledge and skills demanded of today's workers represents a lifelong learning experience that must be nurtured through work-related learning activities and workplace training. For the employer, training supports organizational…
Descriptors: Continuing Education, Corporate Education, Education Work Relationship, Industrial Training