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Kilpatrick, Sue; Emery, Sherridan; Farmer, Jane; DeCotta, Tracy – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2022
Many social enterprises aim to transition disadvantaged people into mainstream employment; they are engaged in commercial activity underpinned by a social mission. They provide training in life and work skills to develop capability, defined as ability to achieve. They are spaces apparently available not only to develop socially and economically…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Entrepreneurship, Workplace Learning, Well Being
Beddie, Francesca – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2015
The body of research produced by the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) over the lifetime of the 2011-14 National Research Priorities (see figure 1) has exposed many of the problems facing tertiary education and training. With the aim of "understanding the problem", the research has further investigated the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Outcomes of Education, Educational Research, Postsecondary Education
Federighi, Paolo – European Union, 2013
Adult and continuing education has the dual function of contributing to employability and economic growth, on the one hand, and responding to broader societal challenges, in particular promoting social cohesion, on the other. Companies and families support important investments that have, to date, ensured important growth in both skills and the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Continuing Education, Adult Education, Public Policy