Presents results from a study of clients/survivors of the mental health system enrolled in a supported education program at George Brown College (Ontario). Finds that students were older than average college students, indicating that illness had interrupted their education, while 57.4% had 5 years or less employment experience. (19 citations) (BCY)

The transition from schooling to work has been recognized as a difficult one. As society has become more modernized, the problem of transition has become even more aggravated. American postsecondary education has a role to play in making this transition less difficult, and in integrating the educational process into the world of work. This…

The adult training programs of the Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology of the Ontario community college system are designed to provide adult students with secondary education degrees, commercial training, and technical training. In order to assess affective aspects of these programs, Canadore College developed a 174-item questionnaire and…

Descriptive data about mature, full-time students enrolled in three postsecondary nonuniversity institutes in Saskatchewan, Canada, were gathered. Information was sought about the personal characteristics of these students, about the decision making process they followed when deciding to return to school, and about the difficulties and benefits…