In many respects, the distinctions between community colleges and proprietary schools are few. Proprietary schools (also referred to as career colleges and for-profit colleges) feature an array of vocational, technical, and business programming, as well as provide opportunities to complete general education courses (Hittman, 1995). Similarly, given that the mission of community colleges is to p...

A knowledge society cannot be constituted with millions of people kept technically illiterate and vocationally disengaged. India with more than a billion people has an elaborate public system of imparting technical and vocational education, which, however, suffers from a mismatch with expectations of the market as also from the inability to address issues related to traditional artisan skills. ...

Currently virtual learning environments (VLEs) and learning objects (LOs) repositories are under active implementation into general education and vocational training system in Lithuania. The article aims to review LOs interoperability standards development tendencies as well as to compare VLEs under existing well-developed pedagogical and technical evaluation frameworks in order to suggest the ...

European economic growth has been weak, compared to the US, since the 80s. In previous work (Krueger and Kumar (2003)), we argued that the European focus on specialized, vocational education might have been effective during the 60s and 70s, but resulted in a growth gap relative to the US during the subsequent information age, when new technologies emerged more rapidly. In this paper, we extend ...

Numerous public and private organizations and agencies conduct adult agricultural education programs. Many of the public sector programs can be traced to the Smith-Lever and Smith-Hughes Acts enacted in 1914 and 1917, respectively, that created the Cooperative Extension System and provided federal funds for vocational-technical education in agriculture. Adult agricultural education programs tha...