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Download full textMabry, Theo N. – 1988
Alternative scheduling provides community colleges with a means to adapt to declining enrollments and fiscal exigencies, and to respond the demand for accountability to students. Strategies such as departing from traditional semester- or quarter-length courses and developing weekend programs have been implemented at certain institutions to…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Cost Effectiveness, Program Costs, Program Length
PDF pending restorationGeneral Accounting Office, Washington, DC. – 1978
The U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) reviewed the administration of military skill training programs. It found that the Department of Defense (DOD) spends about $3.4 billion a year to provide skill training to 1.2 million military personnel. The DOD could save millions of dollars by requiring (1) the services to provide a minimum of forty…
Descriptors: Armed Forces, Cost Effectiveness, Course Content, Educational Finance
