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Download full textEdem, Afiong; Spencer, Paul; Fyfield, Barry – 2003
A study on the missions of postsecondary education providers in England identified a range of practice in establishing an institutional mission and presented proposals for the effective development and review of institutional missions. Phase 1 of the project involved research and analysis. A brief literature review focused on mission statement…
Descriptors: Adult Education, College Planning, Colleges, Developed Nations
McIntyre, John; Chappell, Clive; Scheeres, Hermine; Solomon, Nicky; Symes, Colin; Tennant, Mark – 2000
Questions about work and learning have arisen from the growing emphasis on learning throughout life and beyond formal educational settings. Technical and further education and technological universities are seen as being in crisis, partly as a consequence of the emergence of new knowledge discourses that have disturbed traditional ideas about what…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Developed Nations, Education Work Relationship, Educational Change
Crouch, Colin; Finegold, David; Sako, Mari – 1999
This book analyzes vocational education and training (VET) systems in seven advanced industrial countries (AICs) to determine institutional arrangements for skills creation most promising in attaining the learning society. The AICs are France, Germany, Italy, Japan, United Kingdom, United States, and Sweden. Chapter 1 discusses special problems of…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Apprenticeships, Developed Nations, Educational Administration
Commission of the European Communities, Brussels (Belgium). Directorate-General for Education, Training, and Youth. – 1995
The EUROTECNET program was implemented to develop and improve vocational training policies and systems to meet the challenges of change in the economic and social situation through the development of innovative responses and actions. Each Member State of the European Community was asked to identify one issue of strategic and critical importance to…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Corporate Support, Developed Nations, Educational Change
Peer reviewedZemsky, Robert, Ed.; Cappelli, Peter, Ed. – Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1998
The 12 articles in this volume provide guides to issues concerning education and the economy and school to work and offer direction for future research. They are organized around three themes. Articles in the first section focus on long-standing questions associated with the economics of education: "Microeconomics of College Choice, Careers,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Choice, Developed Nations, Education Work Relationship
Ball, K.; Freeland, B. – 2001
A study examined key determinants of apprentice and trainee employment in small and medium-sized enterprises that play an increasing role in providing employment-based training in Australia. It used unit record data from four waves of the Australian Bureau of Statistics business growth and performance surveys 1994-95 to 1997-98, which sent…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Apprenticeships, Developed Nations, Employer Attitudes
Descy, Pascaline, Ed.; Tessaring, Manfred, Ed. – 2001
These three volumes comprise the background publication of the second report on vocational education and training (VET) research in Europe. The two parts of Volume 1 contain 10 papers; Volume 2 contains 11 papers in two parts; and there are 10 papers in the two parts and annex of Volume 3. In Volume 1 are the following: "Steering, Networking,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Comparative Education, Cost Effectiveness, Developed Nations
