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E. Alvarado; S. Blochinger – Business-Higher Education Forum, 2024
West central Georgia has become a burgeoning center for advanced manufacturing and logistics. With facilities for global brands across automotive, agriculture, tech, and biotech industries, the region (which includes Carroll, Coweta, Douglas, Haralson, Heard, Meriwether, and Troup counties) has experienced a 100+ percent surge in job demand for…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Vocational Education, Job Skills, Labor Force Development
Advance CTE: State Leaders Connecting Learning to Work, 2016
Work-based learning is an educational strategy that offers students an opportunity to reinforce and deepen their classroom learning, explore future career fields and demonstrate their skills in an authentic setting. Managing work-based learning requires layers of coordination, which is typically done by an individual or organizational…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Workplace Learning, Vocational Education, Apprenticeships
Carlebach, Ezri; Branco, Eduarda Castel; Deij, Arjen; de Jong, Mirjam; van Uden, Jolien – European Training Foundation, 2019
The world is undergoing a major transformation that requires new skills and qualifications, new ways for people to know about skills and qualifications, and new ways to acquire skills and qualifications. This toolkit is about skills and qualifications, and the benefits they provide for people in a changing environment. It focuses specifically on…
Descriptors: Job Skills, Employment Qualifications, Job Training, Foreign Countries
Modicamore, Dominic; Lamb, Yvette; Taylor, Jeffrey; Takyi-Laryea, Ama; Karageorge, Kathy; Ferroggiaro, Enzo – ICF International, 2017
These appendices accompany the full report that summarizes the implementation and evaluation of the Accelerating Connections to Employment (ACE) program. The ACE program model is designed to improve employment and employment-related outcomes for low-skilled workers through formal partnerships between Workforce Investment Boards (WIBs) and…
Descriptors: Job Skills, Job Training, Partnerships in Education, Community Colleges
Modicamore, Dominic; Lamb, Yvette; Taylor, Jeffrey; Takyi-Laryea, Ama; Karageorge, Kathy; Ferroggiaro, Enzo – ICF International, 2017
This report summarizes the implementation and evaluation of the Accelerating Connections to Employment (ACE) program. The ACE program model is designed to improve employment and employment-related outcomes for low-skilled workers through formal partnerships between Workforce Investment Boards (WIBs) and community colleges. Implemented at nine…
Descriptors: Job Skills, Job Training, Partnerships in Education, Community Colleges
Johnson, Keith – American Vocational Journal, 1975
Descriptors: Job Skills, Job Training, Laboratory Techniques, Program Descriptions
Parkinson, Guy M. – 1980
The paper describes the Related Vocational Instruction (RVI) and Career Employment Experience (CEE) Programs at a Georgia high school and explains how the programs cooperated to better serve the needs of the educable mentally handicapped students in the school. The goal of the RVI program is to provide secondary handicapped students with job entry…
Descriptors: Career Education, Cooperative Education, Cooperative Programs, Experiential Learning
Georgia State Univ., Atlanta. – 1985
This handbook is intended as a management resource for postsecondary and adult vocational education programs. Its uses include assessment of the effectiveness of current programs; identification of the need for new or expanded programs; development of an action plan for initiation, improvement, expansion, or termination of programs; and the…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Budgets, Educational Planning, Job Training
Georgia State Council on Vocational Education, Atlanta. – 1995
A study analyzed and reviewed corrections education programs for adult criminal offenders in Georgia correctional institutions. The following educational services were available: literacy/remedial reading, adult basic education, General Education Development, special education, vocational and on-the-job training (OJT), and college-level programs.…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Correctional Education, Correctional Institutions
National Council on Employment Policy (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1980
This evaluation of programs conducted in fiscal 1978 under the Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act (YEDPA) consists of an overall picture of the 1978 YEDPA program experience and case studies of programs in 12 states. Findings and recommendations are presented concerning the implementation of YEDPA programs by Comprehensive Employment…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Career Awareness, Career Education, Case Studies
Ohio State Univ., Columbus. National Center for Research in Vocational Education. – 1981
The first of a series of productivity primers examining the interrelationship among vocational education, productivity, and economic development, this volume contains selections from a national conference on the role of vocational education in economic development and productivity that was held in Columbus, Ohio from June 24 through June 26, 1981.…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Economic Development, Educational Needs, Educational Policy
Smith, Clifton L. – 1994
This planning guide begins with an overview of school-to-work transition. Section 1 also provides an overview of federal and Georgia state legislation and describes current school-to-work transition efforts, such as tech prep education, youth apprenticeship, cooperative education, entrepreneurial ventures and school-based enterprises,…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Career Development, Career Education, Cooperative Education
Hospitality Business Alliance, Chicago, IL. – 2000
This booklet highlights the efforts of four hospitality employers and one "intermediary" organization connecting workplace experiences to classroom learning for secondary school students. The introduction presents a series overview and lists the names, locations, and featured practice of the employers and organizations. The next sections…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Advisory Committees, Annotated Bibliographies, Career Awareness
Redmann, Donna H., Ed. – 1996
The following papers are included: "Research and Teaching from the Web/Multimedia" (Swan); "Vocational Teachers' Attitude toward, Knowledge of, and Use of National Skill Standards" (Belcher, McCaslin); "Predicting the Leadership Effectiveness of Vocational Education Administrators" (Daughtry, Finch); "Coping…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Advisory Committees, Agricultural Education, Apprenticeships