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General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. – 2003
Current federal hiring problems result in processes that do not meet the needs of (1) agencies in achieving their missions, (2) managers in filling positions, and (3) applicants for a timely, efficient, transparent, and merit-based process. Federal human resources directors from the 24 major federal departments and agencies found time-to-hire a…
Descriptors: Automation, Career Information Systems, Change Strategies, Demand Occupations
Chambliss, Robert, Ed.; Fresen, Sue, Ed. – 2000
This teacher's guide and student guide unit contains supplemental readings, activities, and methods adapted for secondary students who have disabilities and other students with diverse learning needs. The curriculum correlates to Florida's Sunshine State Standards and is divided into the following six units of study: (1) introduction to economics,…
Descriptors: Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), Banking, Business Cycles, Capitalism
Nadel, Wendy; Sagawa, Shirley – 2002
This report draws on research, statistics, and the voices of rural young people to document the extent and causes of rural child poverty, and related problems and reasons for hope in specific focus areas. About 2.5 million rural children are chronically poor. Rural poverty is concentrated in central Appalachia, the deep South, the U.S.-Mexican…
Descriptors: Brain Drain, Child Health, Child Welfare, Children
Business Roundtable, 2004
The Business Roundtable prepared this paper to: (1) help policymakers and the public better understand the facts about the United States' role in the worldwide economy; (2) offer context and perspective on employment trends; and (3) recommend a package of policies that will stimulate economic growth, foster innovation, create jobs and help workers…
Descriptors: Economic Progress, Higher Education, Federal Legislation, Macroeconomics
Augustine, Catherine H.; Levy, Dina G.; Benjamin, Roger W.; Bikson, Tora K.; Daley, Glenn A.; Gates, Susan M.; Kaganoff, Tessa; Moini, Joy S. – 2003
In 1998, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) established the DoD Office of the Chancellor for Education and Professional Development. Although achieving its mission requires that the chancellor's office influence the education and professional development providers' behavior, its charter grants it very limited formal authority to exercise such…
Descriptors: Administrator Effectiveness, Change Agents, Change Strategies, Continuing Education
Connection: The Journal of the New England Board of Higher Education, 2005
To mark New England Board of Higher Education's (NEBHE) 50th anniversary year, "Connection" invited a small group of visionary commentators to submit short "statements" on the future of New England's economic and civic development, tomorrow's technologies and the changing shape of higher education. This article includes the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Demography, Futures (of Society), Economic Development
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Baskakova, M. E. – Russian Education and Society, 2004
For many decades now the sphere of education in Russia has been considered to be among the most well off among other spheres of activity, from the standpoint of gender equality. One component of radical economic reforms in Russia in the 1990s was the transformation of education financing. During the reform years the number of students in higher…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Gender Differences, Sex Fairness
Rural Development Perspectives, 1995
This special theme issue reports key results from a comprehensive assessment of skill development among the rural workforce and of rural education and job training in rural areas. This comprehensive assessment had three goals: to develop better measures of rural skills than were previously available, to identify human capital initiatives that…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Literacy, Dropouts, Educational Attainment
1996
This document contains two papers from a symposium on human resource development (HRD) in Europe moderated by Wim Nijhof at the 1996 conference of the Academy of Human Resource Development. "HRD Roles in Germany" (Linda E. Odenthal, Wim J. Nijhof) reports on a German study based on a study of the job profiles of HRD practitioners in the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Change Agents, Education Work Relationship, Educational Needs
Faux, Jeff – 1992
Educational performance has become a crucial element in the United States' capacity to prosper in a new global economy of fierce competition. In addition to the traditional question of how the educational system contributes to students' intellectual growth, a new question is being asked: How does the educational system contribute to national…
Descriptors: Competition, Economic Development, Education Work Relationship, Educational Economics
Gibbs, Robert M., Ed.; Swaim, Paul L., Ed.; Teixeira, Ruy, Ed. – 1998
This book examines the education, training, and skill supply of the rural workforce; the role of rural workforce quality in rural development; and the barriers that prevent many rural people from obtaining the skills needed for good jobs. Data are drawn from large national surveys of schools, students, and households. The first three chapters…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Literacy, Dropouts, Education Work Relationship
Masri, Munther W. – 1998
The role of vocational education and training (VET) in the context of the dynamic and changing demands of the world of work is explored through a more comprehensive approach to the overall system of human resources development (HRD). HRD is the concern of both educationists and economists. To an educationist, HRD should first be human and then…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Educational Finance, Educational Needs, Educational Planning
Cullen, R. B. – 1997
Although education and training should be a source of relative advantage for Australia, the competitive benefits expected from the nation's "clever country" strategy have been slow to emerge. When 22 countries including Australia, Germany, Singapore, the United Kingdom, United States, and New Zealand were compared from the standpoint of…
Descriptors: Benchmarking, Change Strategies, Check Lists, Comparative Analysis
Simpson, Ronald D.; Frost, Susan H. – 1993
This book examines current national and international issues tin higher education. Among issues addressed are: (1) the effect of racial, gender, and cultural issues on students and faculty; (2) the special needs of traditional age and adult freshmen; (3) the growing concerns about on- and off-campus safety; (4) the new blending of international…
Descriptors: Access to Education, College Students, Competition, Cultural Differences
Jorgenson, Dale W. – 1981
A study analyzed the contributions of education to U.S. economic growth during the years 1948 to 1973. By allocating the growth of the quality of labor input among the contributions of changes in the composition of the labor force by sex, age, education, employment status, and occupation, researchers were able to separate the contribution of…
Descriptors: Capital, Cost Effectiveness, Demography, Economic Development
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