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A comprehensive guide to all the main labour market initiatives and agencies combining education and employment in the UK, this encyclopaedia presents an historical progression from the Guilds and Statute of Artifices in 1563 through to present day initiatives and changes. Fully cross-referenced throughout, with a full list of acronyms, bibliographic and internet resources, the encyclopaedia includes: • Detailed descriptions of all major government initiatives connecting education, training and employment • Documentation covering England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, and initiatives in Ireland up to Irish independence • A brief history of education and employment in the UK • Chronological history of Government Departments • Outlines of all major public agencies and qualifications • An extensive glossary of acronyms • Information on rarely recorded and inaccessible historical documents.With over 1500 entries, this encyclopaedia crosses knowledge boundaries providing for the first time an integrated map of national human capital development. It addresses: preschool initiatives, primary, secondary, further and higher education; vocational education and training; labour market interventions including those designed to return people to employment; and, government strategies designed to enhance economic and technological competitiveness. The cross-referenced structure provides connections to associated items and a chronological tracing of agencies and initiatives. This encyclopaedia will appeal to those involved in all aspects of education, training, employment, careers information, advice and guidance; and policy making. © 2011 John P. Wilson.

The aim of this study is to determine the knowledge and attitudes of apprentices about sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). Apprentices are the students who are not able to continue their formal education after primary education in Turkey. This descriptive and cross sectional study was conducted at the "Apprenticeship Training School" in Antalya during February 2007. 1,186 of the 1,500 apprentice students, who were registered at the Apprenticeship Training School, agreed to participate in the study. Participants completed a questionnaire in the classroom which was aimed at determining the level of their knowledge and attitudes about STDs. Percentages and chi square analysis were used in data analysis. 60.9% of the participants recognized at least one of the STDs' names. The most familiar STD was AIDS (67.4%). 83.6% of the participants did not know about the symptoms of STDs. Only 23.4% of participants reported at least one of the possible contraction of STDs of the STDs and 28.1% indicated that they had knowledge about the protection methods against STDs. 51.4% of the apprentices' believed that healthy looking persons could also be infectious and most of the STDs were curable (47.6%). Age, gender, the field of apprenticeship and being educated about STDs emerged as the important demographic characteristics on being acquainted with the symptoms, as well as transmission of and protection from the STDs. Results show that STDs' names and the contraction of and protection from the STDs were known better by the male participants, participants from the field of the personal hygiene education and apprentices whom had prior education about STDs. Results emphasize the need to strengthen the apprentices' STD education on all aspects, including their attitudes and safe sexual practices. © 2011 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.

A focus of Government policy has been the need to ensure that those at the lower end of the labour market invest in their human capital through re-engaging with learning, which has been assumed to enable progress into better-paid employment. This article explores the problems created by 'bad jobs' and the evidence for the existence of a set of mutually reinforcing factors that reduces the incentives acting on individuals in such work, and in many cases their employers, to participate and invest in education and training. Each of these factors, on their own, would be sufficient to cause problems at the lower end of the labour market. Acting in concert, as a mutually reinforcing matrix, they produce powerful reasons why many individuals perceive that the incentives to engage in work-related learning are weak. More broadly, our argument suggests that the fundamental causes of low pay and low-quality employment have been misdiagnosed and the subsequent public policy solution of up-skilling interventions is relatively ill-fitted to achieving the desired policy goals. Imaginative re-thinking on how policy might help those in low-wage, dead-end jobs is necessary. © 2012 Copyright Taylor and Francis Group, LLC.

Croce G. and Ghignoni E. Employer-provided training and knowledge spillovers: evidence from Italian local labour markets, Regional Studies. Following suggestions from the literature on agglomeration and on social returns to education, this paper aims to uncover the relationship between local human capital and training. The results are consistent with the prediction that training should be more frequent in areas where the aggregate educational level is higher. This result is confirmed when different definitions of local human capital are adopted or different subsamples are considered. This paper also coped with the problem of omitted variables and spatial sorting by means of a two-step strategy based on instrumental variables. Croce G. et Ghignoni E. Une formation assurée par l'employeur et les retombées de connaissance: des preuves provenant des bassins d'emploi locaux en Italie, Regional Studies. En réponse à des propositions avancées dans la documentation sur l'agglomération et sur le rendement social de l'éducation, cet article cherche à dévoiler le rapport entre le capital humain local et la formation. Les résultats correspondent à la prédiction selon laquelle la formation devrait être plus régulière dans les zones où le niveau d'éducation global s'avère plus élevé. Suite à l'adoption des différentes définitions du capital humain local et à une consideration des divers sous-échantillons, ce résultat se confirme. Cet article aborde aussi la question des variables oubliées et du triage géographique à partir d'une stratégie à deux temps fondée sur des facteurs clé.Formation Retombées de connaissance Bassins d'emploi locaux Croce G. und Ghignoni E. Schulungen durch Arbeitgeber und Wissensübertragung: Belege aus den Arbeitsmärkten Italiens, Regional Studies. Aufgrund der Vorschläge in der Literatur über Agglomeration und sozialen Nutzen für Bildung wird in diesem Beitrag versucht, die Beziehung zwischen lokalem Humankapital und Schulungen zu ergründen. Die Ergebnisse stimmen mit der Prognose überein, dass Schulungen in Gebieten mit höherem Gesamtbildungsniveau häufiger stattfinden sollten. Dieses Ergebnis wird bestätigt, wenn man verschiedene Definitionen des lokalen Humankapitals oder unterschiedliche Untergruppen berücksichtigt. Ebenso wird in diesem Beitrag das Problem der ausgelassenen Variablen und räumlichen Ordnung mit Hilfe einer zweistufigen Strategie auf der Grundlage von Instrumentvariablen angegangen. Schulungen Wissensübertragung Lokale ArbeitsmärkteCroce G. y Ghignoni E. Capacitación facilitada por empleadores y desbordamientos de conocimiento: ejemplo de los mercados laborales locales en Italia, Regional Studies. Teniendo en cuenta las sugerencias de la literatura sobre la aglomeración y las devoluciones sociales para la educación, en este artículo pretendemos descubrir la relación entre el capital humano local y la capacitación. Los resultados son coherentes con la predicción de que la capacitación debería ser más frecuente en áreas donde el nivel educativo general es más alto. Este resultado se confirma si adoptamos diferentes definiciones del capital humano local o consideramos diferentes submuestras. En este ensayo también abordamos el problema de las variables omitidas y la clasificación espacial mediante una estrategia bifásica basada en variables instrumentales.Formación Desbordamientos de conocimiento Mercados laborales locales. © 2012 Copyright Regional Studies Association.