Source:International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour & Research
(1998)
Multivariate logistic regression analysis was used to detect the combination of factors associated with the provision of job-related training provided by employers located throughout the United Kingdom. The efficacy of broad brush policy initiatives to encourage the provision of training in all very…
Source:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(1997)
In the last decade in Australia there has been a significant emphasis placed on vocational education and training. More recently within this context there has been renewed interest in apprenticeship training which has both formal learning (in a technical and further education college), and informal …
With investment in human capital an urgent economic imperative in America's quest for competitiveness, policymakers and analysts have focused on the bottom half of the labor force. In doing so their vision of literacy has been constricted by workplace needs. The literacy discourse is framed in terms…
Source:World Conference of the Textile Institute, Proceedings
(1997)
The network apprenticeship education allows the immediate application of the newest information in the textile and clothing industry. A project of the Tevanake development center that started in 1995 aims to develop a high quality export collection that gives emphasis on product quality and expertis…
Registrars in general practice have to submit an audit project as one of four parts of summative assessment. A criterion-referenced marking schedule has been developed in the West of Scotland, consisting of five independent criteria all of which have to be judged above minimum competence to pass. A …
We use data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and the German Socio-economic Panel to calculate comparable measures of intergenerational correlations of earnings, hours, and education in the United States and in Germany. Our results indicate that there is remarkable similarity across the two co…
The explosion of knowledge coupled with a more diversified society have led to a new set of demands on dentists. For more than 20 years, dental educators and the profession have been concerned about the pressure on the university to ensure that every new graduate is fully competent to enter a dental…
Federal and state legislation encourages the development of industry skill standards to improve the link between educators and employers and better define skill and curricular needs. However, some education reformers fear that a strong focus on the needs of business through industry standards will t…
