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Daniels, C. E. J. – 1990
The Professional, Industrial, and Commercial Updating Programme (PICKUP) of the United Kingdom is aimed at improving the performance of British industry through the colleges. In Wales, PICKUP is part of the Welsh Office Education Department. Various factors have encouraged educational institutions to take on PICKUP work: the Education Reform Act…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Continuing Education, Distance Education, Educational Quality
Download full textFlaxman, Erwin, Ed. – 1987
For a number of years, the 16 ERIC Clearinghouses have tracked educational issues and trends in their respective special areas of concern. This is the first unified collection of papers resulting from the tracking effort. Each paper contains an analysis of research, practice, and policy in the scope area covered by the authoring Clearinghouse. The…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Assessment, Educational Development, Educational Improvement
Maas, Trude A. – 1983
Dutch secondary schools offer educational programs on four tracks, vocational and nonvocational. At the end of each program, a final examination is administered, with the test content areas determined by law, by the schools, and by the student's individual program. Assessment is by means of a written, nationally administered exam and…
Descriptors: College Preparation, Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries, General Education
Bandhu, Desh, Ed.; Berberet, G., Ed. – 1987
This document represents the proceedings of an international conference designed to highlight the urgent need for environmental education. Following the keynote addresses, 63 papers are presented in two sections. The section dealing with "Environmental Education" provides descriptions of environmental education programs in elementary…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Ecological Factors, Elementary Secondary Education, Engineering Education
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Paris (France). Div. of Science, Technical and Vocational Education. – 1983
In 1981-82 a questionnaire was sent to member countries of UNESCO by the International Environmental Education Programme (IEEP) to determine current needs, priorities, and major trends in environmental education. Of particular interest to the IEEP were developments since the 1977 Intergovernmental Conference on Environmental Education held in…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Environmental Education, Global Approach
Dockrell, W. B. – 1986
Scotland has a system of national surveys of achievement intended to provide information for educational policy and practice. Testing of middle school students in the areas of mathematics, reading, English, and science, is designed to provide national information as opposed to information about individual pupils, schools or local authorities. This…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Educational Assessment, Educational History
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Office of Technology Assessment. – 1986
This report concentrates on problems of displaced blue-collar and nonprofessional white-collar workers. Chapter 1 is a summary. Chapter 2 discusses policy issues and options focused on helping people prepare for worklife changes and helping workers to cope if displacement occurs. A definition and description of worker displacement are offered in…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Competition, Dislocated Workers
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Div. of Human Resources. – 1987
The U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) undertook a study of Gallaudet University's pre-college national mission activities which focus on (1) research, development and evaluation of teacher guides and other educational materials for hearing-impaired students and (2) dissemination of these products and technical assistance to educators of the…
Descriptors: Deafness, Delivery Systems, Elementary Secondary Education, Expenditures
Malpica, Carlos – 1983
Twelve papers were presented at a 1980 International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP) workshop on the generalization of educational innovations from the local to the national level. Six of these papers are published in this report, along with a substantial bibliography and an introductory chapter summarizing the papers and describing the…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrative Problems, Administrator Role, Adoption (Ideas)
Manpower Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. Job Corps. – 1983
As part of a multiphased evaluation of vocational training provided by the Job Corps in fiscal year 1982, a study examined the approach used by the Job Corps toward geographic distribution of courses and training delivery. Because 14 occupations accounted for over one-half of the training analyzed in this study, the researchers recommended that…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Demand Occupations, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Needs
Australian Commonwealth Schools Commission, Canberra. – 1984
This report contains recommendations and guidelines for the development of a national computer education program for all Australian schools. The introduction provides background information on the appointment of the National Advisory Committee on Computers in Schools, including the guidelines and objectives set for it by the government. Chapter 2,…
Descriptors: Computer Literacy, Computer Software, Computer Uses in Education, Curriculum Development
New York State Education Dept., Albany. Div. of Educational Testing. – 1986
This report provides a record of student achievement for the State of New York in the 1984-85 school year. It brings together a variety of achievement indicators with a clear focus on knowledge and higher-order skills. Three types of achievement data are presented. One consists of scores obtained on New York State (NYS) tests. These scores may be…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Educational Trends, Elementary Secondary Education
Employment and Training Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. Office of Youth Programs. – 1977
This planning charter for the Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act (YEDPA) explains the Department of Labor's basic principles in designing and implementing YEDPA programs to provide a framework for the development of YEDPA efforts. This booklet is divided into six sections. The first section briefly discusses priorities regarding the…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Administrative Principles, Community Programs, Employment Programs
Alabama State Dept. of Education, Montgomery. Div. of Vocational Education and Community Colleges. – 1975
This review, based on a variety of information sources, discusses vocational education under the following major headings: Forces Contributing to Curriculum Change in Vocational Education (summarizes four of the major elements which seem to be contributing to rapid change in vocational education--knowledge explosion, rise of technology, change in…
Descriptors: Accountability, Career Education, Competency Based Education, Concept Formation
National Council of the Churches of Christ of the United States of America, New York, NY. Church World Service. – 1980
This is a partially annotated bibliography of books, journal articles, and other materials on refugees and refugee issues from an international perspective and from the perspective of several countries around the world. The materials cover a range of topics including general theories on refugees; the refugee experience before 1960 and the…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Adjustment (to Environment), Civil Liberties, Cultural Influences
