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Lakes, Richard D. – Educational Studies, 1986
Reviews "The Preparation for Life Curriculum" (Wilcox, Dunn, Lavercombe and Burn, 1984), which is a case study of a British career education curriculum development project in four secondary schools. (JDH)
Descriptors: Career Education, Curriculum Development, Secondary Education, Social Studies

Weller, Michael; Dillon, Patrick – Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, 1999
Reviews the development of education-business partnerships in the United Kingdom and raises a number of issues about definition and purpose. Discusses the difficulty of establishing an educational framework for such enterprises. Contains 31 references. (DDR)
Descriptors: British National Curriculum, Career Education, Curriculum Development, Educational Policy

Lane, M. R.; Seibel, F. W. – Higher Education Review, 1979
Social work training in West Germany and the United Kingdom are compared. In the UK fieldwork is mandatory and practitioners contribute to the pass/fail grade of the student. In West Germany, the social work student has to choose between academic standing or registered practitioner status. (MLW)
Descriptors: Academic Education, Career Education, Charts, Comparative Education

Marsh, Cynthia – Language Learning Journal, 1995
Discusses a modular curriculum funded by an initiative known as "Enterprise in Higher Education" (EHE). EHE is dedicated to promoting an exchange of ideas between the worlds of work and education with the goal of encouraging the development of a curriculum geared to producing students for careers in industry and commerce. (CK)
Descriptors: Career Education, Course Objectives, Curriculum Development, Foreign Countries
Further Education Curriculum Review and Development Unit, London (England). – 1982
This report reviews the existing provision of caring courses in Great Britain, analyzes the curriculum of such courses, identifies curriculum overlap, and suggests an alternative one-year vocational preparation course. The seven courses examined deal with maternal and child welfare, prenursing and nursery care, personal health care, family health,…
Descriptors: Career Education, Child Care Occupations, Child Caregivers, Course Content