Source:Community College Journal of Research and Practice
(1999)
The Maine Technical College System (MTCS) has a 50 – year history of preparing skilled workers for an occupationally diverse and geographically dispersed region. Established as a vocational training institute under the “GI Bill” to help returning servicemen, the System now includes seven colleges an…
Source:International Journal of Phytoremediation
(1999)
The role of education and training historically was to prepare men and women for different roles beyond schooling. Despite equality legislation in 1975, designed to secure wider opportunities for women in society and in the workplace, progress towards achieving equality in employment–with the except…
To what extent do special-purpose criteria for assessing spoken interaction recontextualize in the assessment setting what counts as communicative competence in professional settings? Current work in discourse analysis brings a critical perspective to bear on the primarily linguistic orientation of …
Education systems can be characterized on the basis of whether the academic and occupational/vocational education and training they provide is compartmentalized (tracked systems), systematically connected (linked systems) or fully integrated (unified systems). This paper describes how such a typolog…
Source:International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management
(1999)
Puts forward the author's view of key issues affecting hospitality education into the new millennium. Issues identified as particularly impacting on UK centres are graduate standards, quality and quality assessment, research assessment, key skills and learning and teaching including the impact of in…
The main focus of this paper is a case study of the progression links onto a new undergraduate business programme (Business Enterprise) that have been established for modern apprentices between Coventry Business School and Coventry and Warwickshire Chamber of Commerce, Training and Enterprise. The c…
Source:Research in Post-Compulsory Education
(1999)
Lifelong learning within work environments is a complex and yet increasingly important issue in today's rapidly changing society. This article highlights the shift in meaning in the notion(s) of lifelong education in the early 1970s and the notion(s) of lifelong learning in the late 1990s. This shif…
Source:European Journal of Psychology of Education
(1999)
This paper investigates the nature of teaming outcomes of thirty six electronics students who were receiving training under the recent reform processes advocated by the Australian government. The reform processes place great emphasis on macro issues thereby unintentionally relegating the micro issue…
Provides an overview of the research undertaken through the EU Leonardo EUROPROF project. Describes the aims of the project and outlines the methodologies undertaken in the work. Surveys the development of vocational education and training (VET) in Europe over the past two decades in relation to cha…
Allocation processes in the German labor market are regulated to a great extent by vocational (and academic) credentials. Yet the impact of the high degree of occupational specificity characterizing these certificates on the interrelation between training and job remains empirically unclear. This ar…
