[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 34, Volume 3]

[Revised as of July 1, 2005]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 34CFR411.1]



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                           TITLE 34--EDUCATION

 

  CHAPTER IV--OFFICE OF VOCATIONAL AND ADULT EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF 

                                EDUCATION

 

PART 411_VOCATIONAL EDUCATION RESEARCH PROGRAM--Table of Contents

 

                            Subpart A_General

 

Sec. 411.1  What is the Vocational Education Research Program?









                            Subpart A_General



Sec.

411.1 What is the Vocational Education Research Program?

411.2 Who is eligible for an award?

411.3 What activities may the Secretary fund?

411.4 What regulations apply?

411.5 What definitions apply?



Subpart B [Reserved]



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             Subpart C_How Does the Secretary Make a Grant?



411.20 How does the Secretary evaluate an application?

411.21 What selection criteria does the Secretary use?

411.22 What additional factors may the Secretary consider?

411.23 How does the Secretary evaluate unsolicited applications?

411.24 How does the Secretary select an unsolicited application for 

          funding?



    Authority: 20 U.S.C. 2401 and 2402, unless otherwise noted.



    Source: 57 FR 36776, Aug. 14, 1992, unless otherwise noted.







    The Vocational Education Research Program is designed to--

    (a) Improve access to vocational educational programs for 

individuals with disabilities, individuals who are disadvantaged, men 

and women who are entering nontraditional occupations, adults who are in 

need of retraining, single parents, displaced homemakers, single 

pregnant women, individuals with limited English proficiency, and 

individuals who are incarcerated in correctional institutions;

    (b) Support research and development activities that make the United 

States more competitive in the world economy by developing more fully 

the academic and occupational skills of all segments of the population 

by concentrating resources on improving educational programs leading to 

academic and occupational skill competencies needed to work in a 

technologically advanced society;

    (c) Improve the competitive process by which research projects are 

awarded;

    (d) Encourage the dissemination of findings of research projects 

assisted under the Act to all States; and

    (e) Support research activities that are readily applicable to the 

vocational education setting and are of practical application to 

vocational education administrators, counselors, instructors, and others 

involved in vocational education.



(Authority: 20 U.S.C. 2401)