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Download full textCostley, Carol – Work Based Learning e-Journal International, 2022
Work-Based Learning (WBL) in higher education is a field of study established in the UK that has developed since the early 1990s. The possibility for this development came when several universities across the UK were awarded a grant in 1992, from the then Department for Employment, to develop learning from work, in the curriculum. The 1992…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Higher Education, Curriculum Development, Universities
Direct linkMcTaggart, Breda; Walsh, Orla – Adult Learner: The Irish Journal of Adult and Community Education, 2013
Adult learners, and women in particular, have to combat a number of specific barriers to participate in lifelong learning opportunities. Frequently, delivery modes of adult learning programmes do not take these varying demands into consideration (McCulloch & Stokes, 2008). However, when they do, positive results ensue. This case study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Access to Education, Barriers
McLean, Scott; Rollwagen, Heather – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2010
Part-time students have accounted for a significant proportion of rising participation in higher education in many countries. The objectives of this paper are to enrich the empirical literature concerning the inclusion of part-time adult learners in higher education, and to assess the two competing theoretical frameworks that have emerged to…
Descriptors: Credentials, Higher Education, Human Capital, Adult Learning
Macleod, Flora; Lambe, Paul – Research Papers in Education, 2008
In this paper we analyse the dynamics of adult participation in part-time education and training throughout the 90s and into the 2000s using data from 14 waves (1992-2005) of the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS). We study the volume (stocks) of participation and non-participation and the gross flows between states. This analysis provides a…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Part Time Students, Foreign Countries, Surveys
Peer reviewedFuller, Alison – Journal of Education Policy, 2001
Explains the growing importance of higher-level qualifications for adults in the UK, highlighting statistical trends in commitment to learning and qualifying-the result of taking part-time courses in higher education. Most part-time undergraduates fund their own tuition. Mature students' backgrounds and perspectives partly account for their rising…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Educational Demand, Educational Policy, Enrollment Trends
Janssen, Rosalind – Adults Learning, 2004
In this article the author discusses the learning and support needs of older women who, because they cared for elderly relatives, found it difficult to attend classes. She contends that there exists a gap in awareness and equal opportunities provision. In an in-depth investigation of the Government's new Access to Learning Fund (ALF) in relation…
Descriptors: Continuing Education, Older Adults, Females, Caregivers
