Improving worker capacity - a new model of workforce development for a competitive economic environment

With the traditional vocational education model, the bulk of the burden of the job-skill development falls on the employer. Once employed, the worker encounters a non-structured, rarely focused, on-the-job training experience. It is now possible to articulate the traditional model to include the employer in the learning process in a structured, documented and verifiable way. This model is efficient in resource utilization. The role of the educational and vocational institutions is to focus on what they do best and not on trying to recreate the work environment with expensive purchases of industry-related equipment. The model presented here frees the educational institution from that burden. The author will showcase on-going projects, some started over 5 years ago, which demonstrate how career centres, community colleges and universities can actively cooperate to create and manage enhanced workforce training programs and build a stable stream of revenue to improve and expand the workforce development model's operations.

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Collections of papers presented under each theme are indexed from TD/TNC 81.453 to TD/TNC 81.457; selected papers from this theme are indexed from TD/TNC 81.480 to TD/TNC 81.493.

With the traditional vocational education model, the bulk of the burden of the job-skill development falls on the employer. Once employed, the worker encounters a non-structured, rarely focused, on-the-job training experience. It is now possible to articulate the traditional model to include the employer in the learning process in a structured, documented and verifiable way. This model is efficient in resource utilization. The role of the educational and vocational institutions is to focus on what they do best and not on trying to recreate the work environment with expensive purchases ...  [+] Show more