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New Brunswick Labour Force Development Board, Fredericton. – 1995
Eighteen key individuals from the business, labor, and training sectors and other organizations concerned with the purchase of private training programs were consulted in an effort to determine the role of Canada's federal government and New Brunswick's provincial government in quality assurance for consumers of private training programs. There…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Adult Education, Educational Quality, Evaluation Methods
Boud, David; Walker, David – 1991
This publication is part of the study materials for the distance education course, Adults Learning in the Workplace: Part A, in the Open Campus Program at Deakin University. The first part of the document examines the process of learning from experience within the context of on-the-job-training and learning in the workplace. The following topics…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Annotated Bibliographies, Education Work Relationship
Maxwell, Randy C.; Jost, Karen L. – 1996
ISO 9000 is one of a series of international standards providing guidelines and governing quality of products and services. The ISO 9000 certification demonstrates the capability of a supplier to control the processes that determine the acceptability of the product or service being supplied. This paper focuses on the training aspects of ISO 9000…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Case Studies, Certification, Cost Effectiveness
Fonda, Nickie – 1995
Between 1992 and 1995, 2,117 nonmanagerial employers in 31 public and private sector organizations throughout the United Kingdom were interviewed for the following purposes: analyzing the need for training and development (T&D); obtaining feedback on existing training provision; identifying barriers to T&D that might affect individuals'…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Employee Attitudes, Employer Employee Relationship, Employment Patterns
National Center on the Educational Quality of the Workforce, Philadelphia, PA. – 1995
The National Center on the Educational Quality of the Workforce (EQW) completed its first analysis of data from the EQW National Employer Survey of 4,625 establishments that was conducted in conjunction with the Census Bureau to document the practices and expectations of employers in their search for a skilled work force and that elicited 3,347…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Education Work Relationship, Educational Attitudes, Educational Needs
White, Eileen Casey – 1994
The Food Processors Skills Building project was undertaken by four Oregon community colleges, with funds from the Oregon Economic Development Department and 11 local food processing companies, to address basic skills needs in the food processing industry through the development and implementation of an industry-specific curriculum. Based on…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Community Colleges, Cooperative Education, Curriculum Design
Taguchi, Mina; Keller, John M. – 1992
This study investigated the kinds of training conducted in Japanese companies and the degree to which instructional systems design (ISD) is implemented. A random sample of 12 Japanese companies in the banking, automobile manufacturing, electrical machinery, wholesale stores, insurance and securities, and transportation industries were surveyed; a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Futures (of Society), Industrial Training, Instructional Development
Putnam, A. R. – 1991
Two forces define a real problem for industries struggling to retain or develop a place in a competitive world market: demographics and the rising level of necessary skills. An examination of Indiana population demographics shows a shortfall of approximately 140,000 workers. The majority of new jobs will require some postsecondary education. The…
Descriptors: Business, Corporate Education, Curriculum Development, Education Work Relationship
Bildung und Wissenschaft, 1992
The German education system is the responsibility of the 16 federal states. The federal government plays the leading role in regularizing the on-the-job section of occupational training in the dual system. Other forms of occupational training are full-time vocational schools and further full-time vocational training schools. The on-the-job part of…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Career Education, Disabilities, Disadvantaged
Beckman, Brenda Marshall; Doucette, Don – Leadership Abstracts, 1993
In fall 1992, the League for Innovation in the Community College conducted a survey of 1,042 community colleges to determine the extent and nature of their involvement in workforce training programs, the types of companies served, funding mechanisms, and perceived obstacles to providing effective training. Study findings, based on a 73.2% response…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Cooperative Education, Industrial Training, Inplant Programs
Villa, Paola; Marchetti, Aldo – 1991
In Italy, all responsibility for vocational training has been delegated to the regions. At the regional level, three types of training are available: training for work, on-the-job training, and training under special state legislation. No obligation is placed on employers to train the work force. Most worker training is informal and conducted…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Continuing Education, Corporate Education, Foreign Countries
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Div. of Human Resources. – 1990
Questionnaires gathered opinions of all Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) field supervisors and a randomly selected sample of one-third of the compliance officers about OSHA's approach to improving workplace safety and health. Major topics addressed were enforcement, safety and health standards, education and training, employer…
Descriptors: Accident Prevention, Accidents, Compliance (Legal), Employment
Vaughan, Roger J. – 1989
Overall, federal and state tax codes treat employer investments in human capital more favorably than investment in physical plant and equipment. The most important advantage is that training expenditures can be dispensed immediately, rather than depreciated over time, possibly resulting in a subsidy of 33 percent. In addition, employers who use…
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, Education Work Relationship, Employer Attitudes, Employer Employee Relationship
Rosenfeld, Stuart A.; And Others – 1988
This document is the executive summary for a two volume report on technological innovation and southern rural industrial development. The first volume examines public and private factors that influence investment decisions in new technologies and the outcomes of those decisions; effects of automation on employment and the workplace; outcomes of…
Descriptors: Automation, Economic Development, Economic Impact, Economic Research
Tobin, Judith – 1984
This paper describes the development and current state of videodisk technology in Canada. The first section focuses on the technology itself, i.e., the disks, disk players, and the possibilities they offer for interaction between learner and machine. The current costs of the technology and the probable effect of these costs on the market are also…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Simulation, Costs, Distance Education