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Lester, Stan – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2013
The TRAVORS projects, supported by the European Union's Lifelong Learning Programme, ran between 2008 and 2012. Their object was to develop training programmes for disability employment practitioners across nine countries based on proven approaches both to vocational rehabilitation and to skills training. The second of the two projects aimed to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Qualifications, Vocational Rehabilitation, Program Validation
Passey, Don – Education and Information Technologies, 2014
This paper explores the management and outcomes of a specific model of intergenerational learning, concerned with student digital leader support in a number of secondary schools in England. A local educational partnership set up a student digital leader project late in 2011, which aimed to develop a range of skills and outcomes for both the…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Learning Strategies, Educational Practices, Technology Education
Wedell, Klaus – Support for Learning, 2012
The aim of this article is to give an account of a self-help "bottom-up" continuing professional development (CPD) facility for SENCos which has been built up over the last 16 years. This CPD was originally intended to supplement any substantive training that might have been provided by local authorities (LAs) and by further and higher…
Descriptors: Professional Continuing Education, Training Methods, Training Objectives, Qualifications
Griffiths, Mark; Armour, Kathleen – Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 2012
The aim of our study was to examine formalized mentoring as a learning strategy for volunteer sports coaches and to consider implications for other volunteer groups in the community. Despite the increasingly popular use of mentoring as a learning and support strategy across professional domains, and the sheer scale of volunteer sports coach…
Descriptors: Mentors, Learning Strategies, Foreign Countries, Volunteers
Hughes, Derek – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2010
This paper reviews how action learning was used as part of a regional leadership development programme involving a number of public sector organisations. It explores how the sets were designed and set up and the significant challenges that this particular approach brought. A number of positive tangible outcomes were produced from the sets and…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Public Sector, Leadership Training, Foreign Countries
Williams, Chris – Education in Science, 2009
This article features the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Leadership Qualification programme, developed by the Centre for Science Education (CSE) at Sheffield Hallam University in collaboration with Edexcel, which sets out to develop leadership skills and capabilities through contexts in STEM. With six units to complete…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Administrator Qualifications, STEM Education, Foreign Countries
Giambona, G.; Birchall, D. W. – Educational Media International, 2011
Small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play an important role in creating a dynamic and successful European economy. Time-poor managers in these organisations generally have fewer opportunities for training and development than their counterparts in larger organisations. As a result, different requirements are placed on training. The aim of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Research Needs, Experiential Learning, Evidence
Somerville, Mary M.; Howard, Zaana – Australian Library Journal, 2008
As the importance of information literacy has gained increased recognition, so too have academic library professionals intensified their efforts to champion, activate, and advance these capabilities in others. To date, however, little attention has focused on advancing these essential competencies amongst practitioner advocates. This paper helps…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Information Literacy, Library Role, Workplace Literacy
McAndrew, Patrick; Taylor, Josie; Clow, Doug – Open Learning, 2010
The process of developing innovative mobile approaches to informal and formal learning is challenging, not least in needing to satisfy stakeholders with diverse interests in the technology, the pedagogy and the overall system. Some approaches to evaluation may focus on examining the nature and quality of learning that occurs, while other methods…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Open Universities, Informal Education, Educational Technology
Ensslin, Astrid; Slocombe, Will – Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 2012
This study reports on the pedagogic rationale, didactic design and implications of an AHRC-funded doctoral training scheme in collaborative and digital multimedia in the humanities. In the second part of this article we discuss three areas of provision that were identified as particularly significant and/or controversial. These include (1) desktop…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Desktop Publishing, Humanities, Multimedia Materials

Huczynski, Andrezej – Journal of Employment Counseling, 1978
In the United Kingdom there are more than 100,000 business executives unemployed as a result of the economic recession. This article describes educational assistance being offered to executives by government agencies and focuses on ways in which colleges and universities responsible for the training have approached their task. (Author)
Descriptors: Employment Problems, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Managerial Occupations
Smith, Ros – Learning and Skills Network (NJ1), 2007
In January 2006 the Learning and Skills Development Agency (LSDA) launched its draft publication, "A Professional Development Framework for e-Learning" (ePD) for consultation with the post-16 education and training sector. In March 2006 the Learning and Skills Council funded the Learning and Skills Network (LSN) to run a pilot to…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Foreign Countries, Guides, Training

Fitzgerald, M. J.; MacLachlan, I. D. – Journal of European Industrial Training, 1978
Describes problems resulting from the use of immigrant industrial workers with poor language understanding and the method used to assess functional oral English for occupational purposes. While the form of assessment provides authentic data for company training and communication needs, further research is needed to resolve some problems. (MF)
Descriptors: Business Communication, Communication Problems, Communicative Competence (Languages), Diagnostic Tests