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Fletcher, Mick – 2001
This document explores the feasibility of loans to support English adults engaging in lifelong learning. The following topics are considered: (1) the policy context (loans in higher education, individual learning accounts, and education maintenance allowances); (2) the need for financial support; (3) attitudes toward loans; (3) financial advice,…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Colleges, Cost Effectiveness, Debt (Financial)
Enchautegui, Maria E. – 2001
The entry of working welfare mothers into the labor market will have an impact on the wages and employment of low-skilled workers. This impact was examined through a labor market analysis of available statistical data about the U.S. population and employment patterns. The characteristics of workers likely to enter the labor market because of…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Comparative Analysis, Economic Factors, Economic Impact
European Training Foundation, Turin (Italy). – 1999
This document reports on a European Training Foundation Advisory Forum study of vocational education and training (VET) and retraining in the regions of the European Union (EU) that synthesized overviews of the general country situations regarding the territorial organization of the VET system and policy and relevant case studies concerning…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Advisory Committees, Case Studies, Cooperative Planning
Carter, Isabel – 1999
The needs of grassroots farmers in Uganda and Ghana for locally developed print materials were examined through a postal survey of nearly 200 organizations and examinations of 75 autonomous farmer groups and 95 organizations sharing agricultural information in both countries. Both printed agricultural information relevant to grassroots farmers and…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Adult Education, Agricultural Education, Case Studies
Gunderson, Morley – 2002
The issue of increasing productivity was examined from an interdisciplinary perspective focusing on the impact of workplace practices on various productivity-related outcomes. First, the following methodological issues were discussed: defining workplace practices that affect productivity; linking employer behavior and organizational performance;…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adoption (Ideas), Adult Education, Compensation (Remuneration)
Atkinson, Rob – 2002
To address the skills shortages stemming from the transition to a more technological and skills-intensive economy, Congress established a program whereby funds from H-1B visa fees would provide seed funds for private companies, labor, and government to join together in creating training alliances focused on skills in short supply. Unfortunately,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Agency Cooperation, Cooperative Planning, Delivery Systems
Singh, Madhu, Ed. – 1999
This book contains 15 papers: "Introduction" (Madhu Singh); "Adult Learning and the Transformation of Work" (Paul Belanger); "Future of Work and Adult Learning" (Ettore Gelpi); "The Obligation of Education in the Face of Globalisation" (Nicole Arnaud); "Lifelong Learning and Vocational Education and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Competence, Education Work Relationship
McClure, David L. – 2001
The General Accounting Office examined the problem of attracting and retaining a high-quality information technology (IT) workforce in federal government agencies. The problem was traced to a longstanding lack of effective leadership and management and lack of a strategic approach to marshaling, managing, and maintaining the human capital needed…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Data Processing, Definitions, Education Work Relationship
Gray, Dorothy; Harkreader, Steve; Wagar, Deborah – 2001
The performance of Florida's Workforce Development Education Program was reviewed. The following were among the data considered: (1) data on program enrollment, program completion, and earnings; (2) data on workforce programs provided from 1992-1993 to 1998-1999; and (3) the 97 responses obtained in a telephone survey of 418 Florida businesses…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Community Colleges, Comparative Analysis
Kell, Peter – 2001
Australian education and training and vocational education and training (VET) research are in a state of crisis. Both the higher education and VET sectors are now squeezed and subject to contradictory objectives, multiple accountabilities, heightened expectations, and diminished resources in an environment of uncertainty and frustration. The…
Descriptors: Educational Opportunities, Educational Research, Educational Researchers, Experimenter Characteristics
Shore, Sue – 2001
The issue of how the outcomes of research on vocational education and training (VET) are influenced by categories that frame thinking about research and learning was explored. Special attention was paid to the following issues: (1) the role of researchers' culture and race in identification of adult learning principles; (2) the need for…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Blacks
Williamson, John; Marsh, Angie – 1999
Changes in the nature of work have resulted in a significant loss of employment opportunities for Australian youths. Since the 1980s, the Australian government's perspective on the problem of youth unemployment has moved from emphasis on job availability to emphasis on individual job readiness. A 1999 Tasmanian study of early school leavers and…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Articulation (Education), At Risk Persons, Disadvantaged Youth
Younis, Talib – 2000
Trends in higher education (HE) in Scotland and elsewhere in the United Kingdom in the 1990s were reviewed, and possible policy directions for HE in the 21st century were explored. Special attention was paid to the following areas: features of HE institutions in the 21st century; the relationship between the state and HE institutions; curriculum…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Learning, Corporate Education, Corporations
Abel, J. F. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1923
The second national conference on consolidation of rural schools and transportation of pupils was called by the United States Commissioner of Education and held at Cleveland, Ohio, February 26, 1923. Twenty-three States were represented. Those in attendance included State commissioners of education, rural-school workers from State departments of…
Descriptors: Consolidated Schools, Conferences (Gatherings), Rural Schools, Administrator Education
White, Alpheus L. – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1959
Public education in the United States is a function of the States. In discharging this responsibility each State has recognized that a considerable degree of local control of education is essential. The establishment of local school districts and the creation of local boards of education to administer school district affairs reflect this point of…
Descriptors: Educational History, Guides, School Districts, Boards of Education
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