The economic downturn and growing skills mismatch dramatically highlight the importance of programs that retrain workers for the demands of the current workplace. The career and technical education (CTE) system has played a large role in the development of these programs, and CTE educators are leading efforts to ensure that new and newly redesigned programs are relevant and accessible to those most in need of additional education and training. CTE programs offer a wide variety of workers the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Students, Education Work Relationship, Vocational Education, Retraining,...
Getting a master's degree means lots of late nights, busy weekends, and probably taking on student loan debt. The commitment raises the question: Is it worth it? This article takes a comprehensive look at how much a master's is worth, which degree one should pursue, and how one can find a balance in graduate school.
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Benefits, Masters Degrees, Salary Wage Differentials, Comparable Worth,...
An employer needs assessment study was performed at Porterville College (PC), in California in 1991 as part of a comprehensive educational planning process for PC and the surrounding area. A validated survey instrument was sent to a stratified random sampling of 593 employers in the community, asking them to provide general information about their company and to rate the importance to their employment needs of the programs currently being offered at PC and those being considered by the college....
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Planning, Community Colleges, Community Surveys, Demand Occupations,...
The extent to which providers of post-16 vocational education and training (VET) in the United Kingdom are able to secure timely and relevant learning programs to meet sudden and unpredicted changes in local or national skills profiles was examined in a study that included interviews of nine private training providers and 11 further education (FE) providers and case studies of 5 FE colleges. Forward planning by FE providers did not, by itself, appear to be sufficient to prepare for unexpected...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Learning, Case Studies, Check Lists, College Role, Cooperative Planning,...
The primary purpose of the study was to develop and apply a methodology for estimating the need for scientists and engineers by specialty in energy and energy-related industries. The projections methodology was based on the Case 1 estimates by the National Petroleum Council of the results of "maximum efforts" to develop domestic fuel sources by 1980 and 1985. It is based on seven energy-related industries: electric generation; petroleum and natural gas extraction and petroleum...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Demand Occupations, Employment Patterns, Employment Projections, Employment...
Trends in veterinary school enrollments and the demand for veterinary services in 14 southern states and the United States are reviewed to help states monitor veterinarian supply and demand. Highlights include the following: in 1984-1985, southern veterinary medicine schools will produce twice as many graduates as they did a decade earlier; the south's 10 veterinary medicine schools graduated almost 700 veterinarians in 1983-1984; a somewhat higher percentage of baccalaureate recipients enter...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Animal Husbandry, Comparative Analysis, Demand Occupations, Employment Opportunities,...
This is a report on the results of a market research project conducted by Fox Valley Technical College (FVTC) (Wisconsin) to identify new occupational markets in the college's service area. The college scanned national job lists, employment databases, and northeastern Wisconsin employer advertisements. The college also surveyed employers in the district. Six lists of new potential occupational markets for FVTC students and graduates were created. The lists were aggregated into 14 possible...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Demand Occupations, Education Work Relationship, Employment, Employment Projections,...
The rapid increase in Colorado's population has created a huge demand for allied health care providers. This increase, coupled with the aging baby boomer population, has created a near-crisis situation in many Colorado communities. The U.S. Department of Labor predicts severe shortages of allied health care workers for the next several years. The goals of the Community Colleges of Colorado Health Occupations Programs are to assess and respond to the needs of the health care community and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Allied Health Occupations Education, Community Colleges, Demand Occupations, Health...
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) projections of occupational employment growth have systematically underpredicted the growth of occupations that require the most education and training. The latest data on occupational growth rates show that the BLS's recent projections of occupational employment growth to the year 2000 probably suffer from the same bias. Based on a regression analysis of trends in occupational shares, forecasts of occupational employment demand imply substantially faster...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Education, College Graduates, Demand Occupations, Education Work Relationship,...
This report was prepared in response to a mandate by the Texas legislature to study issues relating to the nursing shortage in Texas, career mobility among the various nursing programs, and collaboration among schools in geographic proximity. The data from the study were drawn from five public hearings, a survey of 60 nursing program directors, and discussions of the Nursing Study Committee. The study examines nursing education and licensing in Texas, including licensed vocational nurses,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Certification, College Faculty, Demand Occupations, Enrollment, Higher Education,...
A study was conducted to determine what occupations nationally are new and changing and if they need curriculum development at the vocational education level. The process used to conduct this study involved four steps: identifying new and changing occupations, collecting information about the occupations, locating available instructional materials, and assessing the need for curriculum development. Fifteen occupations were identified as either new or changing a great deal. Occupations that need...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Curriculum Development, Demand Occupations, Educational Needs, Educational Planning,...
This report begins with a brief description of the process that the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) uses to develop its employment projections. It then provides detailed information on specific technological assumptions that BLS used in projecting 1995 employment levels for certain industries and occupations. Information is also included on the actual and projected employment levels for these industries and occupations, as well as a discussion and summary of the documents that BLS maintains to...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Career Education, Demand Occupations, Employment Patterns, Employment Potential,...
The accuracy of Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) projections of occupational employment growth was investigated for the period 1972-1989. BLS was found to have consistently underpredicted the growth of skilled occupations and overpredicted the growth of occupations requiring low or moderate skills. A regression-based forecast was indicated as doing a better job of forecasting future occupational staffing ratios than the judgmental approach used by BLS. A regression analysis of the substantial...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Education, Demand Occupations, Employment Patterns, Employment Projections,...
State governments across the nation are engaging community colleges as cornerstones of their comprehensive economic development strategies. This report summarizes the efforts of 10 states, recommended by national experts, to deploy community colleges in support of state economic development priorities. The 10 states are: Florida, Mississippi, Georgia, North Carolina, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Iowa, South Carolina, Michigan, and Washington. The states profiled in this study use a variety of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Community Colleges, Economic Development, Labor Force Development, State Government,...
This report is one of several efforts designed to monitor outcomes in Washington's higher education system, and fulfills the biennial requirement that the Higher Education Coordinating Board (HECB) inform the higher education and fiscal committees of the legislature of progress toward goals. The portrait that emerges from this review of achievements at the baccalaureate institutions is one of strong performance. Degree production is rising and efficiency improvements are occurring. High demand...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Higher Education, Technical Institutes, Graduation Rate, Master Plans,...
Is the United States getting it wrong when it comes to educating tomorrow's innovators in critical fields? It has been known for years that the only way to compete globally in information technology, engineering, nanotechnology, robotics and other fields is to give students the best educational opportunities possible. But do individuals have a successful formula when it comes to science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education? In this report, the authors challenge the nation's...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Opportunities, STEM Education, Educational Innovation, Economic Progress,...
The main findings of Cedefop's latest skill demand and supply forecast for the European Union (EU) for 2010-20, indicate that although further economic troubles will affect the projected number of job opportunities, the major trends, including a shift to more skill-intensive jobs and more jobs in services, will continue. Between 2008 and 2010 Europe lost around 5.5 million jobs due to the economic slowdown. Although substantial, this is less than feared as EU Member States and social partners...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Employment Opportunities, Demand Occupations, Employment Patterns,...
This guide was designed to help high school teachers and guidance counselors present a 2.5 hour or 4-hour workshop on tech prep, school-to-work, and career counseling for parents. It is designed to give parents a brief look at the changing workplace and the training, skills, and experience required to enter and advance; illustrate specific ways that parents can help their children to explore careers; and introduce tech prep, its relationship to the changing workplace, and the opportunities it...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Articulation (Education), Career Choice, Career Education, Community Colleges, Demand...
A detailed study was conducted to analyze the role of national defense in shaping employment demand by occupation, both nationally and regionally, over the next 5 years. Data were gathered through the Regional Occupation Planning and Evaluation System (ROPES) in which detailed information on the employment of 163 occupations in 82 industries and information on the distribution of expenditures for defense among supplying industries were combined within a system of economic forecasting models to...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adults, Demand Occupations, Employment Patterns, Employment Projections, Futures (of...
As a result of strong economic growth, limited growth of the working population, and a number of other socioeconomic factors, the United States presently has labor shortages in some locations for a variety of jobs. This booklet outlines various aspects of labor shortages and suggests ways that Department of Labor (DOL) activities might be used to alleviate them. The report is organized in four parts. Part I highlights the issue of labor shortages and sets forth some of the forces that are...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adults, Agency Role, Demand Occupations, Employment Projections, Labor Economics,...
Historically in the United States, few people with disabilities have enrolled in science-related courses or entered scientific careers in part because high schools and colleges have not offered accessible training to this population. This document is the teaching and resource guide that accompanies a 30-minute video program in career development for potential employers of persons with disabilities. The program presents the opinions of supervisors, co-workers, and other employers on the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Education, Career Awareness, Demand Occupations, Disabilities, Employer...
This report examines job market trends for new college graduates based on a survey of 618 organizations (businesses, industries, manufacturing organizations, service sector employers, government agencies and military services. Topics considered include: (1) anticipated changes in hiring trends for new college graduates, (2) changes in campus recruitment techniques and strategies, and (3) expected starting salaries by academic major and degree level. Findings indicate that, for the first time in...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Graduates, Demand Occupations, Drug Use Testing, Employer Attitudes,...
The U.S. economy will emerge from the Great Recession radically transformed from what it was a generation ago. Changes are afoot affecting which occupations and industry sectors will produce employment growth, as well as what education credentials, competencies, and skills will be required to do those jobs. Community colleges already take steps to address the workforce needs of local employers, but their efforts often are hampered by a lack of detailed, up-to-date information about occupations...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Community Colleges, Labor Market, Occupational Information, Demand Occupations,...
Effective planning of vocational education programs requires information about both the educational demand of individuals and the manpower demands of business and industry. Two characteristics of the manpower demand in Minnesota which are defined and estimated in this report are occupational demand, the total number of employment positions in a given geographic area, and unfilled positions, the number of positions to be newly filled in a given time period. Occupational demand for a specific...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Demand Occupations, Educational Demand, Employment Opportunities, Labor Market, Labor...
The manpower survey, conducted in Lafourche Parish, Louisiana, determined current and future manpower requirements and related them to the occupational skills needed in the vocational-technical program in the schools. Data were obtained from employer respondents through a mail questionnaire sent to nearly 1,800 firms in the parish with a return of 500. From the data collected and analyzed the Lafourche Parish manpower needs and occupations requiring less than four years of college are...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Achievement, Data Collection, Demand Occupations, Educational Needs,...
Salary and fringe benefit data for faculty and administrators at California state postsecondary institutions are examined, along with economic conditions and comparative salary data. To provide an indication of economic trends during 1976-1981, data are presented on five major economic indicators. Dollar and percentage increases in compensation for California faculty are compared to those of seven other professional groups and also to federal and state civil service employees. Comparisons are...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrators, College Faculty, Community Colleges, Comparative Analysis, Demand...
For several years leading up to 2008, workforce data painted a picture of an imminent crisis in the healthcare workforce, with demand for registered nurses far exceeding supply. The economic recession has provided a temporary reprieve, as older nurses postponed retirement and hospitals instituted hiring freezes. However, economists believe that as states emerge from this recession, the nursing shortage will again be present, and promises to become very large. The question for states needing to...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Nursing Education, Hospitals, Nurses, Innovation, Nursing, Enrollment, Demand...
One of the most important components to the discussion of emerging careers is the recognition that the American economy will need an increasingly skilled workforce. According to the recent report, "Help Wanted: Projections of Job and Education Requirements Through 2018," the American workforce will be in need of 22 million new college degrees as well as 4.7 million new workers with postsecondary certificates. The report also notes that America will fall short of workers with associate...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Career Education, Labor Force Development, Human Capital, Demand Occupations,...
The performance of Alaska's State Training and Employment Program (STEP) in fiscal 2000 was evaluated by matching the records of participants of the following STEP subprograms with Alaska and Washington state unemployment insurance (UI) wage records and federal military and federal civilian payroll records. Data were collected for participants of the following groups of STEP programs: (1) adult programs (including one dislocated worker program); (2) programs for adults with barriers (including...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Education, Definitions, Demand Occupations, Dislocated Workers, Educational...
This report of job recruiting trends affecting 1997-98 college graduates is based on survey results from 477 businesses, industries, and governmental agencies. It notes that employers anticipate an increase of 27.5 percent in job prospects for new college graduates and that there is a high demand for technical graduates, including majors in computer and information sciences, engineering, business management and administrative services, and the health professions. Factors affecting the job...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Graduates, Databases, Demand Occupations, Education Work Relationship,...
The report provides descriptive profiles of the current and past supply of health manpower and projections. It also describes the methodology and techniques used to derive the profiles and projections, and provides interpretations and evaluations of the adequacy and comparability of existing statistics, with descriptions of the more conspicuous gaps in the current health manpower information system. The health manpower occupations covered are: physicians, medical specialists (M.D.'s), dentists,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Demand Occupations, Dentists, Employment Patterns, Employment Projections, Employment...
These two articles, which are based on the comments of more than 2,000 readers of the American Association of Retired Persons'"AARP Bulletin," examine career changing in the United States. The first article, "Up and Away: Second Careers Taking Off," focuses on the specific careers that adults are moving into and out of and the factors driving adults to change careers, including the following: late-developing restlessness; job pressures; craving for adventure; need to help...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Career Change, Career Choice, Career Education, Case Studies, Decision Making, Demand...
A study tracing the United States economy over the last 40 years reports the skills needed in the changing economy around the turn of the 21st century. Data sources were the March Annual Demographic files of the Current Population Survey for 1970, 1980, 1990, and 1996, and the Public Microdata Sample of the 1960 Census. The study notes the rise of the premium in wages for college graduates and the decline in real earning for all high school graduates, especially males. Some highlights of the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Blacks, Business Administration, Clerical Occupations, College Graduates, Demand...
This research examines innovative solutions developed by the vocational education and training (VET) sector in response to skill shortages in the health sector. The study focuses on VET-trained workers in the health industry, and includes enrolled nurses, nursing assistants, personal care assistants, allied health assistants and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health workers. The research, which also examines innovative overseas approaches to skill shortages in this industry, found that a...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Vocational Education, Nurses, Allied Health Personnel, Industry, Job Skills, Demand...
Career Space is a consortium of major information and communications technology (ICT) companies working in partnership with the European Commission to encourage and enable more people to join and benefit from a dynamic e-Europe and to narrow the current skills gap. It believes the way in which engineering and computer studies students are educated should change to meet ICT industry needs in the 21st century and offers information and suggestions about ICT sector needs and ways to narrow the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Business Administration, Communications, Computer Science Education, Curriculum...
This report, prepared by the Committee's Panel on Technology and Women's Employment, identifies and analyzes the effects of technological change on the quantity and quality of women's paid employment. Chapter 1 defines technological change, describes changes in information technologies, discusses the measurement and characteristics of technological change, and explores the economic and social context of technological change and possible employment effects. It describes women's employment...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Education, Automation, Demand Occupations, Employed Women, Employment Level,...
This report investigates the future supply of and demand for certain types of skilled labour at the trades and sub-trades levels that will be required for these projects up to 2010. In particular, it focuses on skilled labour in the mechanical, fabrication and electrical trades and mobile plant operators and construction workers in the sub-trades. The research for this report included: a review of the other studies of skill needs in Western Australia; discussions with individual company and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Supply and Demand, Skilled Workers, Apprenticeships, Demand...
The growing importance of education in overall economic growth and individual opportunity has necessitated that education reformers address the need for the additional and better human capital needed to foster overall growth in the new knowledge-based economy. Education reformers must also work to reduce the growing differences in family incomes by closing the gap between the nation's education-haves and education-have-nots. Addressing these challenges requires strengthening the relationship...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Education, Access to Education, Adjustment (to Environment), Articulation...
In today's turbulent economy, how can adult workers best position themselves to secure jobs in high-demand fields where they are more likely to remain competitive and earn more? Further, how can employers up-skill current employees so that they meet increasingly complex job demands? Research indicates that Career Technical Education (CTE) aligned to Career Clusters is a gateway to training and qualifying individuals for high-demand jobs. Despite high unemployment rates, employers are struggling...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Vocational Education, Demand Occupations, Occupational Clusters, Labor Force...
The role of the federal government in higher education in the United States is considered in an address to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. The federal government is reducing expenditures in education and seeking to limit the government's involvement in developing education policy. The federal support for higher education has been primarily through assistance to students and not directly to institutions. The decline in the number of 5- to 21-year-olds and the increase...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Accountability, Adult Students, Basic Skills, Community Colleges, Demand Occupations,...
This report focuses on issues relating to replenishing California's college faculty and increasing the number of faculty due to increasing student enrollment. The report provides recommendations for both higher education institutions and the State on 12 policy options that hold promise for increasing the supply of individuals with doctoral degrees and mitigating potential faculty shortages. Nine of the 12 options are "supply-side" interventions, such as increasing baccalaureate...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Bachelors Degrees, College Faculty, Demand Occupations, Doctoral Degrees, Educational...
The Occupational Training Information System (OTIS) report enumerates current data on manpower supply and demand conditions (from July 1, 1974 to June 30, 1975) in selected occupations and training programs in Oklahoma. Data sources, which included Federal and State agencies, and the procedures used to collect and analyze the data are presented in the introductory chapter. Chapter 2 (42 pages) provides manpower supply and demand tables presenting statewide totals arranged according to: clusters...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Comparative Analysis, Data Analysis, Demand Occupations, Educational Programs,...
So that postsecondary institutions can meet the training needs of business and industry, this guide has been developed to help colleges increase and improve their active participation in assisting businesses and industries to use advanced technology. It provides suggestions for keeping faculty up to date, acquiring the latest equipment, and providing programs for training new workers as well as upgrading present workers. The guide also suggests means of using new curricula and delivery systems...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Community Colleges, Curriculum Development, Demand Occupations, Education Work...
This curriculum guide was developed to provide high school students in Tennessee with an overview of various occupations, including educational requirements, expected labor supply and demand, wages, and job duties. In the first section, the guide describes the types of jobs in 13 career clusters: art, design, and communications; business and office; construction; education and related occupations; health; industrial production and related occupations; mechanics and repairers; plants and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Career Choice, Course Content, Demand Occupations, Educational Needs, Employment...
Various economic, technology-related, and other factors have converged to serve as a catalyst for the emergence of workers who consider themselves free agents. Estimates of the number of free agent workers range from 12.9 to 25 million. Individual free agent workers may take widely varying approaches to their careers; however, all have taken charge of their careers, consider interesting work a priority, and make increasing their skills an important part of their strategy. Emerging concepts of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Learning, Career Development, Career Education, Consultants, Continuing...
The sector of the economy frequently referred to as STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) is the subject of much national interest and debate. While there is general consensus across various stakeholders such as policymakers, educators, and industry that STEM education and careers are essential to maintaining an innovative and vibrant country, there are frequent and heated disputes: Are there labor shortages in STEM, either overall or in particular fields or regions? How...
Topics: ERIC Archive, STEM Education, State Policy, Community Colleges, Credentials, Careers, Employment...
The Census of Population provides data on the structure of employment by occupation and industry for Ireland that are supplemented by the Labor Force Survey (LFS), which collects information on employment by occupation and industry. Expected strong growth in the Irish economy from 1993-98 should lead to a significant increase in employment. This increase will not be large enough to absorb the expected rapid rise in labor force participation. In terms of sectoral forecasts, decreases are...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Education, Demand Occupations, Developed Nations, Employment Patterns,...
Occupational supply and demand in Washington State was examined by comparing projected supplies of skilled workers coming out of the state's community and technical colleges against the projected demand among Washington employers for people qualified to enter particular occupations. The analysis was based on a January 2000 report, information gathered after publication of that report, a disaggregation of previous statewide estimates into Washington's 12 service delivery areas, and a survey of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Community Colleges, Computer Software, Curriculum Development, Definitions, Demand...
Research shows that the labor market payoff to vocational education in high school is quite large when graduates work in the occupation for which they trained. Less than one-third of those who learn occupationally specific skills get training-related jobs. The occupationally specific skills learned are seldom used on a job due to lack of emphasis on placement, insufficient involvement of employers, and training for jobs not in demand. High school vocational education has no significant positive...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Career Counseling, Cooperative Education, Demand Occupations, Dropout Prevention,...
This document contains the text of the Nurse Reinvestment Act, which amends the Public Health Service Act to address the increasing shortage of registered nurses by instituting a series of policies to improve nurse recruitment and nurse retention. Title I details two initiatives to boost recruitment of nurses. The first initiative includes the development and broadcasting of public service announcements and grant-based funding of state and local public service announcements to advertise and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Accountability, Career Development, Career Ladders, Change Strategies, Colleges, Data...
