German horticultural enterprises face increasing difficulties in obtaining and maintaining qualified human resources even with a high rate of unemployment. Two surveys of apprentices' attitudes to being a horticulturist and their job satisfaction were undertaken to explore some hypotheses concerning…
European apprenticeship systems, especially Germany's, have inspired a series of demonstration projects in the United States and a major new initiative by the Clinton administration, which is embodied in the School-to-Work Opportunities Act of 1994. German research on apprenticeship provides some pr…
The aim of this study was to evaluate the Danish vocational training scheme from a patient's point of view. This was especially interesting as all young doctors have six months vocational training in general practice after finishing university. During April 1993 junior doctors in twelve general prac…
Emphasis on training and careers in several aspects of recent policy directions in Australia signals a concern for both the expansion and equitable delivery of career opportunities. However, the strategies designed to produce a 'clever country' do not apply equally well to all industries, and detail…
The idea of competence has different constructions in different areas of practice. Indeed, the construction of the idea of competence has undergone substantial but constrained change, in some areas of practice, over the past decade. For instance, in the contemporary competency‐based education and tr…
Background and Objectives: This study was designed to determine whether medical school graduates who completed undergraduate degrees in particular college majors were more likely to enter primary care residencies. John L. Holland's theory of vocational personalities and work environments was used to…
Several moldmakers organizations collaborated to develop a model curriculum for the training of moldmakers. Their objective was two-fold; (a) to develop a national training curriculum that would help to assure that a moldmaker trained in California could bring his/her credentials to New England and …
We are witnessing the most significantchanges in the nature of the relationship between nursing education and higher education. However, there has yet to be a more philosophical explanation of what it would mean for our aims and practices as nurse educators if we were to take seriously the notion of…
