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Download full textCommission of the European Communities, Brussels (Belgium). Directorate-General for Education, Training, and Youth. – 1995
The EUROTECNET program has been refocused to concentrate more on continuing vocational education as the area of greatest need across the European Community. Four priority fields or domains of innovative activity have been defined for the final 2 years of EUROTECNET. Priority domain 1 is innovative training needs analysis with a special focus on…
Descriptors: Continuing Education, Educational Innovation, Educational Needs, Foreign Countries
Dore, Roger M. – 2001
A study compared test scores obtained by adult learners taught oral, written, and/or interpersonal communication skills by four different methods over two different lengths of time. The learners and those in a control group, which was not taught at all, were 171 bank employees. The teaching methods were executive coaching (one tutor and one…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Banking, Business Communication, Communication Skills
Smith, Peter; Wakefield, Lyn; Robertson, Ian – 2002
Research identified feasible strategies to support flexible delivery in operating workplaces. Sites were 12 enterprises in Victoria. Findings indicated flexible delivery was largely implemented by enterprises through the provision of a range of learning opportunities that included on-the-job observation, practice and mentoring, access to learning…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Cognitive Style, Corporate Education, Delivery Systems
Wales, M. L. – 1993
A discussion of the content of workplace English programs for limited-English-speaking immigrants to Australia focuses on the proportions of general and work-specific course content in those programs. It draws, in part, on results of a 1989 study of one workplace English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) program. It is proposed that reasons for…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Case Studies, Course Content, Curriculum Design
Reubens, Beatrice G. – 1986
No single system or model of adult education and training describes the actual situation in the countries of Western Europe. Considerable variability exists from nation to nation in regard to scope, characteristics, organization, and financing. The countries, however, share an interest in the deliberate expansion of all phases of adult education.…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Counseling, Adult Education, Adult Educators
Mahoney, John J.; Wetmore, Frances K.; Winker, Helen; Alsberg, Elsa – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1920
In the work of Americanization, which is, in the broad sense almost entirely educational, the teacher is of first importance. Not every person who can do good work as a teacher of a grade or of particular subjects in a school for children or youth can do equally good work as a teacher of classes of adult foreign-born persons. The preparation for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Immigrants, Teacher Education Programs
