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Learning in and beyond Small Business Advisory Programmes
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Parker, Rachel Louise; Hine, Damian – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2012
The purpose of this paper is to analyse how participants learn in small business advisory programmes and to explore the impact of these learning programmes on the development of reflective learning dispositions in participants. The research involves two case studies of small business advisory programmes in Queensland, a state of Australia. One…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Small Businesses, Adult Programs, Training
Adult Education and Local Economic Development in Australia.
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Mason, Robb; Randell, Shirley – Education in Rural Australia, 1995
Addresses Australia's changing economic structure and the increasingly important role of adult education in rural economic development. Adult programs that positively impact rural development include training for employment, small business training, enterprise education, community awareness programs aimed at promoting understanding of how money…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Community Development, Community Education
Adults in Training: An International Comparison of Continuing Education and Training.
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O'Connell, Philip J. – 1999
Data from the International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS) were analyzed to compare the incidence and volume of continuing education (CE) and training among adults in the following countries: Australia, Belgium, Canada, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The following were among the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Programs, Age Differences