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The National Research Center for Career and Technical Education (NRCCTE) released a report titled, Technical Skill Attainment and Post-Program Outcomes: An Analysis of Pennsylvania Secondary Career and Technical Education Graduates. [...]

Union Pacific locomotive numbers 5248-5553 are listed on the roster as class C45AC-CTE. This classification seems to follow General Electric's standard nomenclature of C for six axle, 45 for 4500 [...]

Byline: Davide Chiaroni, Vittorio Chiesa, Alfredo De Massis, Federico Frattini Technical and Scientific Services (TSS) have been largely acknowledged by scholars and policy makers as means of knowledge transfer and diffusion within an innovation system. The paper argues that TSS play a critical technology bridging function especially in knowledge-intensive industries, significantly contributing to their development and growth. This issue is investigated through an extensive analysis of the Italian biotech and nanotech industries. The results demonstrate that TSS actually serve as technology bridges along the stages of the technology-intensive industry's life cycle, connecting sources of technical knowledge (e.g. universities) with recipient organisations (e.g. large private companies), that use the transferred technology to innovate their products or services. The major achievement is that TSS do not play just a brokering function; they perform on the acquired technology value-added activities (i.e. personalisation or recombination) the recipient organisations are willing to pay for, thus ensuring the sustainability of the TSS firm business model.

HIGH SCHOOL COUNSELORS PROVIDE STUDENTS WITH THE TOOLS TO ASSESS their individual interests, skills and abilities, and connect them with the appropriate educational options and career opportunities. However, in Arizona, [...]

From the outside it doesn't look much like a classroom. The large warehouse doors have been pushed open, and sunlight illuminates the foundation of a house. There are only wall [...]

THE SUCCESSFUL leader possesses many diverse talents and several different kinds of intelligence. The complexities of health care make the challenges even greater because health care delivery is a complex [...]

The 2000 publication of Standards for Technological Literacy: Content for the Study of Technology (ITEA, 2000/2002) was a critical point in the history of technology education. The standards defined, for […]

1. Establish a location. Constantly look for potential work sites. Peruse the newspaper or listen to the radio for ideas. Ask your students for ideas. They often have a location [...]

The summer of 2003 marked a major milestone in the field of children's engineering in the Commonwealth of Virginia and across the nation. Children's Engineering: A Teacher Resource Guide for […]

Since the Handover to the People's Republic of China in 1997, people outside Hong Kong often ask me whether there have been many changes. My response is 'yes,' with some […]

THE CARL D. PERKINS CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION ACT OF 2006 Perkins', offered a number of key advances. with the program of study being one of the most significant. The [...]

WHETHER YOUR STATE HAS ADOPTED THE COM MON CORE STATE STANDARDS (CCSS), HAS modified the CCSS to its own state Standards, or has declined participation, one thing is certain: Career [...]

The debate over the value of a college education appears to be settled. Not only do employers value employees with a bachelor's degree, they may actually value them too much. [...]

The distinction between on-the-job training and technical training is not always clear, and varies from one corporation to the next. A survey conducted in 1985 by Training magazine indicates 72 percent of U.S. companies that employ more than 50 people claim to offer technical training to employees, covering topics such as: computer operation, mechanical maintenance, basic mechanics principles, electrical maintenance, electronics, instrumentation and process control, and facilities maintenance. Two views of technical training are discussed: the academic viewpoint and the viewpoint of practitioners in the field. Academics identify three types of training: technical, management and motivational, whereas practitioners are not as concerned with labels and train according to corporate needs.

Long Island colleges are trying to attract and produce more tech students to help satisfy industry demand. Companies are stepping up recruitment efforts to do the same. In addition, experts [...]

The U.K. government has introduced changes in the apprenticeship programme to bring it on par with the rest of the world. Technical Certificates are vocationally related qualifications and deliver the underpinning knowledge and understanding required by the Non Vocational Qualification (NVQ) earlier and additionally will be required to spend more time in the classroom. The changes mean that the advanced apprenticeship training will now span a slightly longer time and comprise of three parts instead of two earlier, one of which has been split.

Golden present, silver future? IF SOME of Germany's problems are less bad than they seem, others may be worse. One cause for concern must be the country's education system, and [...]

Teachers in the UK are eager to learn the new approach to design and technology at key stage 3 offered by the Nuffield Foundation through the Nuffield Design and Technology Project. The executive director of Nuffield has stated that teachers are clamoring for guidance in design and materials technology because of the lack of a proper methodology in the national curriculum.

A recent National Sciences Foundation study on scientific literacy revealed some starting facts: Only 45% of all adults know the earth rotates around the sun once a year. When asked [...]