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Wooden, Mark – 1999
This study provides a review of research, especially Australian research, concerned with youth employment and the impediments to the expansion of youth employment. Following the introduction, the report is divided into nine main sections. First, a demand and supply framework, which is used to structure this review, is introduced. The next four…
Descriptors: Change, Costs, Employment Opportunities, Foreign Countries
Download full textNational School-to-Work Opportunities Office, Washington, DC. – 1996
Building effective school-to-work systems requires evaluation, usually incorporating both process and outcome evaluations. Increasingly, school-to-work systems are conducting self-evaluations or hiring evaluation teams to determine how effectively the system is designed and implemented and whether it is achieving its purposes for students and the…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Education Work Relationship, Educational Practices, Educational Resources
McCarthy, John – 1993
A study examined the socioeconomic status of Irish youth, the vocational counseling services available to them, and the specific vocational counseling needs of disadvantaged youth in the rural Irish communities of North Mayo and North-West Connemara. It was discovered that the average rural disadvantaged Irish youth is an unemployed single male…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Career Counseling, Case Studies, Counseling Services
National School Public Relations Association, Arlington, VA. – 1980
Intended as a source of information and guide for educators and business people, this report describes a variety of successful cooperative programs between businesses and schools, explains how they operate, and provides some advice from those experienced with programs about how to estabilsh and operate cooperative endeavors. Chapter 1 focuses on…
Descriptors: Business, Career Awareness, Career Education, Cooperative Education
Golden, Sarah; O'Donnell, Lisa; Rudd, Peter – National Foundation for Educational Research, 2005
The Increased Flexibility for 14-16 year olds Programme (IFP) was introduced in 2002 by the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) in order to "create enhanced vocational and work-related learning opportunities for 14-16 year olds who can benefit most." Partnerships between a Lead Partner, usually a college of Further Education,…
Descriptors: Employment Potential, Student Attitudes, Factor Analysis, Vocational Education
Further Education Development Agency, London (England). – 1995
This document is designed for further education (FE) colleges and individuals responsible for regional FE planning in the United Kingdom. Based on several case studies and the views of selected stakeholders in FE, it presents a framework for ensuring adequate and sufficient FE for young people. Discussed in the document's four sections are the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Check Lists, Comparative Analysis, Cooperative Planning
Froissart, Catherine; And Others – 1995
A field survey examined the vocational guidance needs of two groups of people 25 years or younger in France: youths undergoing initial training in vocational-technical education (VTE) and young job seekers who are potential candidates for achieving level V vocational qualifications. Interviews were conducted with youths from two different regions…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Counseling, Career Guidance, Counseling Objectives
Carnegie Council on Policy Studies in Higher Education, Berkeley, CA. – 1979
Rising youth unemployment has been arousing increasing concern in nearly all the industrial democracies, while it has become more clear throughout the 1970's that prolongation of schooling has brought severe problems of adjustment for young people who are being held in school through a combination of parental and societal pressures, and are not…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adolescents, Change Strategies, Community Services
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Paris (France). – 1979
This document contains materials from a Unesco European regional meeting held in Venice (November 7-11, 1977) to discuss the problem of youth unemployment. The final report of the meeting is composed of (1) a summary of the discussions on background and nature of the problem, remedies, action, education and training, creating jobs, quality of…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Agency Role, Career Education, Cultural Opportunities
Hoyt, Kenneth B. – 1978
This monograph summarizes discussions by participants at two mini-conferences who were involved in beginning attempts to implement the Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act (YEDPA) legislation. The first section presents a historical overview of YEDPA which focuses on a monograph by Garth L. Mangum. Both ineffective and effective program…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adult Education, Career Education, Cooperation
JEFFERY, C. RAY – 1967
THE SOCIAL AND EDUCATIONAL REHABILITATION OF HIGH SCHOOL DROPOUTS WITH DELINQUENT RECORDS WAS ATTEMPTED BY REINFORCING BEHAVIOR ASSOCIATED WITH ACADEMIC REMEDIATION, WORK PREPARATION, AND SOCIAL CONDUCT. OF THE 163 NEGRO YOUTHS WHO PARTICIPATED AT SOME TIME DURING THE PROGRAM, ONLY 42 WERE ACTIVELY PARTICIPATING WHEN THE PROGRAM TERMINATED, AND…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Black Youth, Community Attitudes, Community Organizations
Zanni-Teliopoulou, Kassandra; Stathakopoulou, Penelope – 1994
A study examined the vocational guidance needs of young people in Greece. Available literature on the following topics was reviewed: transitions of young people to economically active life; available vocational guidance services; transitions of youth from education to work; youths who abandon compulsory education; and young women with…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Career Counseling, Career Guidance, Counseling Services
Curtain, Richard; Sweet, Richard – 1998
This overview paper highlights implications of keynote papers and discussion at the first National Issues Forum held by the Research Center for Vocational Education and Training (VET) in Australia. It discusses evidence that the school-to-work (STW) transition is a problem for an increasing number of young people and why. It outlines the…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Comparative Education, Developed Nations
Medina, Alberto Hernandez; And Others – 1978
The education/employment situations of young people in Mexico and South Asia are examined as part of a project to broaden perspectives on social, educational, and employment issues in developing nations. In Mexico, economic growth between 1940 and 1970 was considerably greater than achievement of social goals such as full employment and…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Comparative Education, Developing Nations, Economic Factors
Commonwealth of Learning, Vancouver (British Columbia). – 2000
This report records tasks completed during the last 3 years by the Commonwealth of Learning, which has promoted, supported, advanced, and enriched the practice of distance and open learning Commonwealth-wide since 1989. It begins with two messages: "There Will Have To Be Another Way" (H. Ian Macdonald) and "Achieving Goals, Working…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Basic Education, Communications, Coordination
