CareerTech Glossary

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WAP: Wireless Application Protocol
WC: Worker’s Compensation.
WEEAP: Women’s Education Equity Act Program.
WIA: Workforce Investment Act.
WIT: Workforce in Transition.
WLC: Washington Leadership Conference, an FFA program.
WOW: World Organization of Webmasters
Work-Based Learning: The purpose is to provide students with work experiences that provide instruction in such things as positive work attitudes, employability skills, and participative skills. These experiences may occur within the classroom or the workplace.
Work-Site Learning: Planned learning experiences for students, under the guidance of a workplace mentor, to develop specific technical competencies and general workplace competencies. Experiences may also occur in a school-based enterprise, simulation, or special project.
Work-Study: A need-based form of financial aid which supplements government student loans and grants by allowing qualified individuals to work at a fair wage for up to 10 hours per week on campus, often in positions which relate to their area of study.
Work-Study Program: A provision of the Higher Education Act to provide grants to institutions for partial reimbursement of wages paid to postsecondary students who are employed part-time by the institution. The funds are intended to help with educational expenses.
Workforce Investment Act: The Workforce Investment Act of 1998 reforms federal employment, adult education, and vocational rehabilitation programs to create an integrated, “one-stop” system of workforce investment and education activities for adults and youth. Entities that carry out postsecondary vocational and technical education activities assisted under the Perkins Vocational and Technical Education Act are mandatory partners in this one-stop delivery system.

by Lynn Hughes — last modified 2008-02-21 21:31