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Download full textOffice of Vocational and Adult Education (ED), Washington, DC. – 1985
These profiles describe the implementation of alternatives to a traditional high school diploma for programs based on demonstrated competencies or life skill experiences. Over 100 profiles are provided. The information is designed to assist adult educators, administrators, teachers, and students to identify various approaches for serving adults…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Certification, Competency Based Education
Center for Human Services, Washington, DC. – 1976
The directory presents comprehensive information on the availability of 22 external degree programs and other innovative educational programs and is aimed at drug abuse personnel. The programs presented are diverse, with many offering credit for life experience and incorporating a variety of independent learning programs. Programs are arranged…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Directories, Drug Abuse, Educational Opportunities
Charters, Alexander N.; Vaughn, Harold A. – 1984
A project was designed to produce a listing of selected international governmental and non-governmental organizations with an adult education component. Of the 155 organizations surveyed, 76 responded and 45 completed the survey instrument. Categories 1 through 4 of the survey instrument asked for information regarding programs, activities,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Continuing Education, Educational Research
Doerfert, F., Ed.; And Others – 1989
This report contains short descriptions of about 200 selected distance education institutions throughout the world. Most of the descriptions are based on questionnaires completed by members of the institutions as well as on corrections of and comments on a preliminary version of the descriptions. Descriptions contain some or all of the following…
Descriptors: College Programs, Correspondence Schools, Developed Nations, Developing Nations
PDF pending restorationHouwing, J. F., Ed.; Kristjanson, A. M., Ed. – 1980
This eighth edition of the annual inventory of research on higher education in Canada contains descriptions of over 380 research, innovative, and experimental projects currently in progress or completed in 1979. The projects, entered in the language in which they were reported (English or French), are in six categories: general (accreditation,…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Administrative Organization, Adult Education, College Administration
Miller, Ronald H., Ed. – 1981
The issue of providing access to alternative college programs for adult students through evaluation of institutional accessibility and development of appropriate responses is addressed in six articles. Barriers that adults experience in the admissions process and in completing college programs are identified by Thomas Taafee and Thomas M. Rocco in…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Access to Education, Adult Students, Advertising
Priority Country Area Program Office, Brisbane (Australia). – 1986
The Priority Country Area Program is a Rural Education Program funded by the Commonwealth Schools Commission and jointly administered by the Queensland (Australia) Department of Education and the Queensland Catholic Education Office. The program develops educational strategies to address problems engendered by the social and geographical nature of…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Athletics, Camping, Catholic Schools
Lee, Jasper S., Comp.; Cheatham, Danny L., Comp. – 1986
This document contains 200 one-page abstracts intended to provide a linkage between producers and consumers of research related to the Cooperative Extension Service. The abstracts are organized into nine broad categories: administration, agriculture/natural resources, accountability and evaluation, community resource development, 4-H and youth,…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Agricultural Education, Community Development, Community Programs
National Univ. Continuing Education Association, Washington, DC. – 1982
Descriptions are provided of the eight programs selected as award-winning innovations on the basis of universal application and potential for greatest impact for the improvement of continuing education. Each description contains this information: program name, name of principal person, name and institution to whom award would be made, source of…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, Continuing Education, Cultural Education
