Document Type
Report
Abstract
Lays out recommendations to Governor Ann Richards for building a world-class Texas work force by creating an industrydriven skill standards and certification system. The program has been tagged "the long-term engine" of the Governor' s Smart Jobs Plan. This report, guided and presented by the Texas Skills Development Panel, was prepared by the Texas Department of Commerce, Work Force Development Division. The approach and recommendations represent a year-long research initiative that involved the advice and contribution of the many potential "customers" of the Texas Skills Development Program. Employees of businesses across Texas participated in focus group experiments. Their contributions sparked the fire that placed us on the fast track toward addressing "core skills" and "higher-order" "transferable" skills as a means to address occupationaltechnical skill requirements. The Panel wholeheartedly agreed with the focus groups. Panel members advised us that "if Texas' schools and training institutions can ensure basic and workplace skills, plus broad occupational-technical skills, Texas' businesses can train workers to individual company tool sets." This critical reality switched on the engine of the Texas Skills Development Program and placed it squarely in the middle of Texas' education reform agenda.
Publication Date
1-1-1993
Language
English
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Texas. Department of Commerce, "Report to the governor : Texas skills development program : smart jobs strategies : an industry-driven skill standards and certifications system is one of the key strategies that will assist Texas in building a world-class work force" (1993). Documents from the State of Texas. 9.
https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/utalibraries_digitalprojects_stateoftexas/9
Comments
(OCoLC)28879320
Austin, Tex. : Texas Department of Commerce, [1993]