Renewable Energies in Vocational Training

PeerEnergyCloud - Trading Renewable Energies

An increasing number of private households are becoming producers of renewable energy. From an economic perspective it is beneficial to utilize this energy both locally and promptly. This does require the ability to be able to deal with local excess production at short notice using, for example, an electronic trading platform. In this paper we describe a future energy scenario demonstrating tec...

Vocational Training

In this paper we estimate, for the 1989-93 period in Belgium, the effect of vocational classroom training on the rate of transition out of unemployment. We show that rationing of the demand for training increases the unemployment duration of non-participants, an effect neglected in programme evaluations. We propose a “control function” estimator accounting for variable treatment effects and ide...

Vocational education and training

Vocational Training For Defense

A L M O S T I M M E D I A T E L Y fo l lowing the i n i t i a l an nouncement t h a t the country was going to embark on a defense program came simultaneous demands for workers f rom a l l parts of the country and f r om a great var ie ty of industries. A lmost overnight , some communities which were experiencing widespread unemployment found their supplies of certain types of workers exhausted...

What about vocational training?

Thank you for your letter enquiring about the pros and cons of vocational training for general practice. While you have most of your preregistration year ahead of you, it is not too soon to start to think about your future plans. You are quite right in thinking that, at present, you will be perfectly entitled to seek entry into general practice as soon as you are fully registered. While there a...