Download or read book Workplace Literacy and the Nation s Unemployed Workers written by Mamoru Ishikawa and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Literacy and the Unemployed written by Stephen Black and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationship between literacy and unemployment was examined through two research activities: a review of changing patterns of unemployment, changing directions in adult literacy and basic education in Australia, and literacy programs for unemployed people and interviews with a sample of 27 Commonwealth Employment Service (CES) clients who had been referred by the local CES office to a technical and further education (TAFE) college in the metropolitan west of Sydney. Of the 27 interviewees, 16 (60%) were happy to have been referred to TAFE literacy programs. Nearly all those who welcomed referral to TAFE were from non-English-speaking backgrounds, and only three were Australian born. Interviewees' age and work aspirations and prospects also affected their attitudes toward enrolling in TAFE. Even those who were reluctant to enroll in TAFE generally believed that enrolling in TAFE would be in their best interests. Most interviewees attributed their unemployment to their low literacy skills rather than to the recession. Policymakers were advised to bear in mind that, although literacy is vitally important for many jobs, low English literacy skills do not automatically render people unemployable or nonfunctioning members of society. (Appended is an interim literacy course matrix. Contains 154 references.) (MN)
Download or read book The Literacy Barrier written by Norm Pyle and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Literacy in the Labor Force written by Andrew Sum and published by Department of Education. This book was released on 1999 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using data from the 1992 National Adult Literacy Survey, focuses on the literacy skills of the nation's total civilian labour force.
Download or read book Literacy Numeracy and Activation Among the Unemployed written by Elish Kelly and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Impact of Learning on Unemployed Low qualified Adults written by Sally Dench and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Literacy Employment and Social Security written by A. S. Seetharamu and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pathways to Work Unemployment Among Black Teenage Females written by Phyllis Ann Wallace and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies Central Harlem and Bedford-Stuyvesant.
Download or read book Employment and Adult Literacy written by Janice Lee Albert and published by . This book was released on 1990* with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Use It Or Lose It written by John Bynner and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A British study examined whether people's literacy and numeracy skills get worse if they are out of paid employment. It was based on a sample of adults aged 37, who are part of the major cohort study, the National Child Development Study. Only those persons who left school at age 16 were included. Some of the findings were as follows: (1) when men were out of work, their numeracy skills got steadily worse, with those who had poor skills to start with seeing their skills decline sooner and more; (2) time out of paid employment was also linked to a decline in numeracy skills in women, but to a lesser degree; (3) reading skills were more resilient for both men and women--unemployed women had a small decline in skills whereas men's skills declined only if they had poor skills to start with; (4) other influences, such as socioeconomic status, had great influence on whether skills declined during unemployment, but at least small skill losses were suffered at all levels. The study concluded that since reading is used all the time, being out of work has less impact. In addition, since some numeracy skills are used in work but not in everyday life, they are more likely to be lost when people are out of work. Finally, those who had a reached a skills threshold were less likely to lose their skills and training in work appeared to protect against skills loss. The findings underline the importance of opportunities for unemployed people to improve their basic skills. (KC)
Download or read book Educational Responses to Adult Unemployment written by Barbara Senior and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1987, at a time of high unemployment, this book provides a critical analysis of the role played by education in solving unemployment. It examines the practical, social and psychological effects of unemployment on adults and argues that formal institutional responses are inadequate within any long term perspective, and that it is rather community, informal and often unofficial initiatives that will provide learning experiences for unemployed people.
Download or read book Beyond the School Doors written by Irwin S. Kirsch and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Individually administered literacy assessments were conducted with approximately 6,000 adults representing the 20 million persons served by the U.S. Department of Labor's (DOL) Employment and Training Administration through the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) or the Employment Service/Unemployment Insurance programs. Information-processing skills were measured in three areas key to the day-to-day management of life: prose comprehension skills, document literacy skills, and quantitative skills. Some of the findings of the study were the following: (1) people in the DOL programs who have higher levels of literacy skills tend to avoid long periods of unemployment, earn higher wages, and work in higher-level occupations than program participants with lower skills; (2) 40-50 percent of clients had literacy skills in the lowest 2 of the 5 defined literacy levels; (3) about one-fifth of the clients had literacy skills at the highest two defined levels; (4) Black and Hispanic populations were not different from each other, but they were disproportionately represented at both ends of the literacy scale compared to Whites; and (5) 35-40 percent of high school graduates tested scored in the lowest two levels of the scale. The following conclusions were reached: (1) outcome measures should ensure comparability across individuals and time periods; (2) literacy requirements of key job families should be identified; (3) individuals with low literacy levels will have limited success in job training programs and the job market; and (4) there is a significant need for adult education programs for low-literate persons. (KC)
Download or read book Education for the Adult Unemployed written by Alan Huntington Charnley and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research report, adult education, unemployed, UK - psychological aspects, role of government agencys, voluntary organizations, mass media and advisory services, curriculum, experiments. References, statistical tables.
Download or read book A Literacy Syllabus for Long term Unemployed Migrants written by Joyce Helen Murray and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Literacy Socialisation and Employment written by Catherine Stercq and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The link between literacy and employment is often assumed and social and vocational integration rarely takes into account the problem faced by people who are illiterate. Examples from a 20 year study into the causes of illiteracy and its effect on people's lives is used by the author to examine what effect there will be on the social and economic development of a region if a significant part of its potential labour force is ignored because it is illiterate. As well as the economic consequences of such actions, the social impact is highlighted and possible ways of breaking the spiral, through education and economic investment, are suggested.
Download or read book Literacy and Numeracy Training for Unemployed Job Seekers Aged 18 to 24 Years written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Evaluating the Impact of the Literacy and Numeracy Training Programme for Job Seekers written by Zakir Rahmani and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
