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Nikolic, Sasha; Vial, Peter James; Ros, Montserrat; Stirling, David; Ritz, Christian – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2015
This paper describes in detail a successful training program developed for sessional (part-time or nonpermanent) laboratory demonstrators employed in the Electrical Engineering Department of an Australian university. Such demonstrators play an important role in teaching practical concepts and skills in engineering. The success of the program…
Descriptors: Teaching Assistants, Learning Experience, Laboratory Experiments, Laboratory Procedures
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Mundie, Pauline; Marr, Robert – Global Education Review, 2014
John Paul College, a K-12 School in Queensland, Australia, recognises the centrality of classroom teachers to the ongoing improvement of student outcomes. The College has implemented a multi-tiered "professional renewal and assessment process." These changes of emphasis are the result of significant research and subsequent/associated…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Faculty Development, Program Descriptions, Behavioral Objectives
Byrne, Eileen M. – 1990
The content and quality of prisoner education in Queensland, Australia, was reviewed. The review focused on the following topics: prisoners' rights and responsibilities in general and their rights to rehabilitation and education in particular; the structural, organizational, and attitudinal barriers to correctional education; available and needed…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Change Strategies, Correctional Education
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Deslandes, Moira; Rogers, Louise – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2008
Volunteering SA (VSA) has responded to the need to revise and expand the training offered to volunteers. It has developed a volunteer training framework to provide structure and guidance for the sector in making policy and financial decisions about directions and type of training that volunteers require and desire, where the training can lead and…
Descriptors: Volunteer Training, Volunteers, Improvement Programs, Training Methods
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Berman, J.; Juniper, S.; Pitman, T.; Thomson, C. – Australian Universities' Review, 2008
Focusing on the developmental needs of early career postdoctoral fellows--the lifeblood of an internationally competitive research-intensive university--this paper suggests an inextricably linked, two pronged approach to improving research performance at Australian universities. The first is to reconceptualise post-PhD research pathways and in…
Descriptors: Postdoctoral Education, Foreign Countries, Research Universities, Training Methods
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Huber, Kathrin – International Journal of Training Research, 2010
In North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), one of the German states, catchment areas for part-time vocational schools were abolished in 2008. With the intention to foster competition between schools in order to improve school quality, training companies now may freely choose the school of their choice. NRW is the first German state to take this step. In the…
Descriptors: Vocational Schools, School Choice, Comparative Analysis, Competition