Various forms of participation in postsecondary education by students with intellectual disabilities have received increased attention from the field of special education over the past decade. This review of literature from 2001 through 2010 builds on a similar review conducted by Neubert, Moon, Grigal and Redd (2001) to determine whether there…

The impact of national education policies on programme design practice in post-compulsory education tends to be marginalised in scholarly literature. This paper reviews and analyses the literature to explore how neo-liberalist discourses introduced in tertiary education and qualifications policies in New Zealand since 1989 continue to influence…

The Harvard Institute for the Management of Lifelong Education is a professional-development program for leaders in postsecondary lifelong education. It exemplifies creative design and delivery as ideas come from multiple sources and the program is continuously reinvented. (SK)

The paper reviews inadequacies common in secondary programs for learning disabled students and suggests guidelines for more appropriate program development. (CL)

Examines the source and identifying characteristics of continuing professional education. Finds that continuing education and continuing professional education are separate and distinct organisms, having different missions and different operational premises. While institutions of higher education may effectively offer both types, the distinctions…

The purpose of this case study was to explore how low-skilled workers who participated in a health care training program learned to acquire the technical, cognitive, and developmental competencies they needed to gain skilled employment in higher-level positions in the field and thus advance their careers. The data methods used were: (1) in-depth…

The study attempted to (1) develop measures of program effectiveness and (2) examine effects of program elements on student satisfaction. Data were collected through administration of the Vocational Education Evaluation in Virginia instrument. Findings indicate program effectiveness elements are positively correlated with student satisfaction. (CH)

Describes a nursing education model that links education and service. The authors describe the purpose and objectives of the model, research missions, areas of joint responsibility between the assistant deans of the school of nursing and the education director of the medical college, and implementation plans. (CT)

This article examines the various aims and methods of open universities and compares them with the system pioneered by Britain's Open University. He discusses the differences between open university systems, the place of the media, and the potential for conflict created by differing control systems. (CT)

The author, in a study of Worcester (Massachusetts) vocational training institutions, finds that at the postsecondary level there is an obvious adjustment of programs to needs. The schools do follow the labor market very closely, rather more than had been suspected. (CT)

Attempts to develop a standardized set of program objectives which could be used in designing, implementing, operating, and evaluating postsecondary marketing and distributive education programs and which would ultimately result in a degree of program standardization. (CT)

A study was conducted to clarify distinctions between research-oriented (PhD) and professional-oriented (DNSc) doctoral programs in nursing. Four programs of each type were asked to participate in research designed to evaluate selected environmental input variables, curricular design variables, and outcome variables. The major difference was in…

Reviews the current status of marketing education within the context of teacher education in general. Role and direction of the program are addressed by proposing specific goals and strategies for implementation in the areas of philosophy, structure, and integration of the program. (CT)

Work experience programs for youth can be a means of developing coping, decision-making, and problem solving skills, and other affectively oriented outcomes. The types of personal outcomes of career education and the means of fostering these are reviewed. (Author/JDS)

The paper proposes an individualized education program for adult learning disabled students at King Edward Campus (Vancouver, Canada). Listed are short-term and long-term perspectives, as well as short-term considerations regarding such aspects as the diagnostician's role, suggested materials, tuition, and curriculum. (CL)