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Direct linkMendoza-Ruvalcaba, Neyda Ma.; Rico-Hernández, Sergio Alejandro; Alvarado-Rodríguez, Marlene – Educational Gerontology, 2021
Gerontology programs in higher education are needed and offered all around the world. In the past two decades, in Mexico there has been a rapid spread of bachelor programs in gerontology, and the number of programs continues to increase. The aim of this paper is to analyze the orientation of the bachelor programs in gerontology offered in Mexico…
Descriptors: Bachelors Degrees, Undergraduate Study, Program Descriptions, Educational Gerontology
Download full textRamírez, Magdalena Jiménez – Educational Research and Reviews, 2016
In Spain, the organisation of doctoral studies has been substantially modified to come into line with the changes introduced by the agenda of the Bologna process. These changes have been specified in a number of statements by European Ministers of Education, and have required alterations to Spanish doctoral regulations. The aim of these changes…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Doctoral Programs, Global Approach, Educational Change
Mishna, Faye; Tufford, Lea; Cook, Charlene; Bogo, Marion – Journal of Social Work Education, 2013
Cyber counseling is a new and growing medium for offering mental health services to children and youth. However, there is a lack of identification of the core competencies required to provide effective online counseling. A school of social work, in partnership with a national service agency providing online counseling to children and youth,…
Descriptors: Social Work, Graduate Study, Pilot Projects, Counseling Psychology
Heijke, Hans; Meng, Christoph – Education Economics, 2011
Using a unique European data-set, we investigated the significance of five higher education programme characteristics for the labour market position of the graduates: the academic versus discipline-specific character of the competencies generated; the standardization of these competencies; the combination of working and learning; the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Labor Market, College Programs, Program Descriptions
Peer reviewedChowdhury, A. M. R.; And Others – International Review of Education/Internationale Zeitschrift fuer Erziehungswissenschaft/Revue Internationale de l'Education, 1994
Describes Assessment of Basic Competencies (ABC), a methodology for measuring writing, arithmetic, and selected life skills that is simple, inexpensive, and easy to reproduce. Provides results of a pilot implementation of ABC among 2,100 children in Bangladesh between the ages of 11 and 12. (35 citations) (MAB)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, Developing Nations, Early Adolescents
Chambers, Donald L. – 1978
This conference on competency based mathematics education was held in response to inquiries from mathematics teachers, curriculum directors, principals, and district administrators. Topics include: (1) What is competency based education; (2) The status of competency based education; (3) The process for developing a system of competency based…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Conference Reports, Elementary Secondary Education, Mathematics Curriculum
Canadian Education Association, Toronto (Ontario). – 1987
This report presents the findings of a survey ("Programs and Activities Using Technology To Serve Students at Risk of School Failure") of a sampling of large school districts in the United States and Canada, conducted to obtain information on the use of technology to serve students at risk of school failure for the participants in a…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Educational Technology, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language)
