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European Training Foundation, 2023
Qualifications frameworks are tools for describing qualifications of an education or training system by classifying them into levels. Each level provides a clear description of what the holder of a qualification knows, understands and is able to do. They are important tools for making qualifications transparent and comprehensible, within and…
Descriptors: Qualifications, Global Approach, Regional Programs, Nonformal Education
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Alarcon-Pereira, Grecia; Rampasso, Izabela Simon; Tapia-Ubeda, Francisco J.; Rojas-Aguilar, Karol; Rojas-Córdova, Carolina – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2023
Purpose: Considering the relevance of education for sustainable development (SD) to enhancing engineers' abilities to contribute towards sustainability-related issues, this study aims to help understand the global context of the insertion of SD into engineering education and to provide guidelines to further evolve research and efforts towards…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Sustainable Development, Engineering Education, Higher Education
Iulia Moisi; Kirsty McDonald; Elena Chamberlain – National Literacy Trust, 2024
Early Words with Childminders is a programme aiming to support the practice of childminders by providing them evidence-based activities and strategies that foster children's early language development, and confidence and skills to engage with parents. Piloted between September and December 2023, the programme provides practitioners with training…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Caregivers, Preschool Children, Evidence Based Practice
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Hughes, Deirdre; Shakoor, Ifza; Hampshire, Katy; Croll, Lauren – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2022
A consistent criticism from the emergent literature on children's career development has been that career-related learning in primary schools has received limited attention. A particular gap in the literature is the application of careers theory applied to pedagogy and employer engagement within primary schools. This article examines an innovative…
Descriptors: Career Education, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries, School Community Relationship
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Greer, Julie – Support for Learning, 2020
This paper examines the values, vision and practice originally outlined in a proposal for a secondary phase resourced provision for young people with social, emotional and mental health (SEMH) challenges. The provision was based on a well-established model (the 'Jarjums Room') which had been implemented in Cherbourg Primary School in Eastleigh,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Emotional Problems, Social Problems
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Radic, Nebojša – Research-publishing.net, 2021
In this chapter I describe the emergency delivery of the Cambridge University institution-wide Language Programme (CULP) during the COVID-19 lockdown in March-July 2020. I am the Director of the Programme and report from a managerial point of view. I begin by outlining the institutional context and the student and teaching staff backgrounds. I…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Distance Education
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Hermaszewska, Susannah; Sin, Jacqueline – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2021
Strong evidence suggests that parents of children on the autism spectrum face increased stressors to their physical and mental wellbeing due to the demands of caregiving and paucity of support. The disparity between the services currently offered and unmet needs indicates that accessible and flexible support through online delivery is needed for…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Intervention, Children, Autism
Straw, Suzanne; Bradley, Eleanor – UK Department for Education, 2022
The T Level Transition Programme is a study programme targeted at students aged 16 to 19 years (or young people with Education and Healthcare Plans to age 24) who are not ready to start a T Level but have the potential to progress onto one following a tailored preparation programme. The Transition Programme is expected to be a full-time study…
Descriptors: Transitional Programs, Late Adolescents, Skill Development, Student Recruitment
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van Poortvliet, Matthew; Clarke, Aleisha; Gross, Jean – Education Endowment Foundation, 2019
Improving Social and Emotional Learning in Primary Schools reviews the best available research to offer school leaders six practical recommendations to support good SEL for all children. It stresses this is especially important for children from disadvantaged backgrounds and other vulnerable groups, who, on average, have weaker SEL skills at all…
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, Elementary School Students, Disadvantaged, Evidence
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Newland, Barbara; Handley, Fiona – Research in Learning Technology, 2016
Institutional engagement with digital literacies at the University of Brighton has been promoted through the creation of a Digital Literacies Framework (DLF) aimed at academic staff. The DLF consists of 38 literacies divided into four categories that align to the following key areas of academic work: (1) Learning and teaching; (2) Research; (3)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Technological Literacy, College Faculty, Faculty Development
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O'Hare, Liam; Stark, Patrick; McGuinness, Carol; Biggart, Andy; Thurston, Allen – Education Endowment Foundation, 2017
This report describes the development and pilot evaluation of SMART Spaces. This programme aims to boost GCSE science outcomes by applying the principle that information is more easily learnt when it is repeated multiple times, with time passing between the repetitions. This approach is known as "spaced learning" and is contrasted with a…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Repetition, Time Factors (Learning)
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Jarvis, Daniel H.; Lavicza, Zsolt; Buteau, Chantal – International Journal for Technology in Mathematics Education, 2014
This paper reports on the findings of an international case study in which researchers examined two mathematics departments (Canada/UK) in which the sustained use of technology was strategically established in a mathematics degree program. This case study forms part of a larger research initiative which involved an extensive literature review…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Mathematics Instruction, Educational Technology
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Towlson, Kaye; Rush, Nathan – New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2013
A teacher fellow project at De Montfort University explored the context and practicalities of developing a Graduate Skills Licence (Information Literacy) in answer to the current higher education drive for graduate employability. Research revealed the hidden complexities behind the development of an originally simple notion. It provided scope to…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Employment Potential, Information Skills, Skill Development
Wallace, Belle – Gifted Education International, 1985
A program in Essex, United Kingdom, for gifted elementary students encountered early problems from the term "gifted" and from the identification procedure concentrating on high IQ criteria. Inservice courses were instituted and selection methods broadened. (CL)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Gifted, Program Development, Program Implementation
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Meyen, Edward L.; Greer, Diana L.; Poggio, John C. – Forum on Public Policy Online, 2008
The No Child Left Behind (NCLB) legislation in the United States is not equivalent to a national curriculum; however, it does set forth some conditions essential for enhancing student achievement at scale (e.g., curriculum standards, assessment standards, and expectations of compliance). The missing component within these conditions is support for…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Academic Standards, Alignment (Education)
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