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- An introduction to the `Counseling for High Skills: Vo-tech Career Options' project. Hoyt, Kenneth B.; Hughey, Judith K. // School Counselor;Sep95, Vol. 43 Issue 1, p10
Focuses on the Kansas State University's Counseling for High Skills: Vo-Tech Career Options' project, a program to help youth make decisions regarding postsecondary vocational technical education. Need for the project; Challenges and strategies; Key activities required to meet goals; Status of...
- Collaborate or die. Lovejoy, Bret // Vocational Education Journal;Apr95, Vol. 70 Issue 4, p10
Focuses on the importance of collaboration in vocational-technical education. Integration of vocational and academic instruction; Involvement of private sector; Education funding.
- The George Stone Area Vocational-Technical Center. Cotton, Art // Tech Directions;Oct2000, Vol. 60 Issue 3, p35
Features the George Stone Area Vocational-Technical Center in Pensacola, Florida. Electricity program of the center; Labor contributed by the center to the Habitat for Humanity projects; Demand for skill workers.
- A qualitative study of vocational and technical education in Zimbabwe: A case study approach. Farmer, Edgar I.; Taylor, Raymond G. // Convergence;1996, Vol. 29 Issue 1, p75
Studies vocational and technical education in Zimbabwe. Implementation of the rationalization plan to provide vocational and technical setting; Education metamorphosis of education.
- Balancing its budget on backs of Voc-tech students not prudent for N.H. DeCourcy, Ed // New Hampshire Business Review;8/18/95, Vol. 17 Issue 17, p10
Opinion. Comments on the reduction of the budget for the vocational-technical college of New Hampshire. Impact on the quality of the graduates; Rationale behind the reduction of the cost of government services.
- Will this transplant grow? Koepfer, G. Chris // Modern Machine Shop;Nov95, Vol. 68 Issue 6, p10
Focuses on the vocational-technical education in Europe and Asia. Teaching of the same techniques in school and work settings; Role of local businesses in adopting the model in the United States.
- Employers in vocations clamoring for qualified workers. McKinney, Jennifer // Indianapolis Business Journal;08/18/97, Vol. 18 Issue 22, Education in Central... p3
Reports on the demand for vocational and technical education in Indiana. Occupations; Shortage of qualified workers; Reasons for the shortage; Changes needed to address the problem.
- Technical education in Indiana. Fields, Terry R. // Indianapolis Business Journal;08/18/97, Vol. 18 Issue 22, Education in Central... p4
Focuses on vocational and technical education in Indiana. Target market; Seven occupational areas; Certificates of Technical Achievement; Scenario to describe how a person receives certification in manufacturing; Results.
- Technical graduates lack workplace skills, survey says. // Techniques: Making Education & Career Connections;Feb99, Vol. 74 Issue 2, p8
Looks at survey results which states that Florida college graduates have strong core technical competencies but lack the skills to apply them to the workplace. Recommendation to include workplace skills in the curriculum for technical courses.
