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Direct linkTella, Adeyinka; Okojie, Victoria; Abdullahi, Firdausi; Ajani, Yusuf Ayodeji – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2022
This study examines the future of libraries in Nigeria during the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), when advanced technologies will change the way people live and work. It explores the outlook from the perspective of six academic librarians drawn from the six geopolitical zones in Nigeria. The survey findings reveal that the Fourth Industrial…
Descriptors: Library Role, Futures (of Society), Academic Libraries, Librarians
UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning, 2020
The International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP)-UNESCO Dakar and the Francophonie Institute for Education and Training (IFEF) wanted to study how the competency-based training (CBT) was adapted, what contextualisation and adaptation of programmes according to the CBT has taken place, and what positive practices have made the CBT…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Vocational Education, Foreign Countries, Program Implementation
UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning, 2020
IIEP-UNESCO Dakar and the IFEF have carried out a joint study on contextualizing and adapting the competency-based approach (CBA) in seven African countries: South Africa, Benin, Ethiopia, Ghana, Morocco, Rwanda, and Senegal. This study has identified good practices and their use for making the CBA more effective in TVET systems, as well as the…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Vocational Education, Foreign Countries, Program Implementation
UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning, 2020
The International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP)-UNESCO Dakar and the Francophonie Institute for Education and Training (IFEF) wanted to study how the competency-based training (CBT) was adapted, what contextualisation and adaptation of programmes according to the CBT has taken place, and what positive practices have made the CBT…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Vocational Education, Foreign Countries, Program Implementation
UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning, 2020
The International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP)-UNESCO Dakar and the Francophonie Institute for Education and Training (IFEF) wanted to study how the competency-based training (CBT) was adapted, what contextualisation and adaptation of programmes according to the CBT has taken place, and what positive practices have made the CBT…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Vocational Education, Foreign Countries, Program Implementation
UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning, 2020
For the purpose of finding out how competency-based training (CBT) approach is customized, how syllabi are adjusted and aligned on CBT and what positive outcomes were registered as a consequence, the International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP)-Dakar and the Francophonie Institute for Education and Training (IFEF) conducted a joint…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Vocational Education, Foreign Countries, Program Implementation
Scherer, Ethan; Ryan, Sarah; Daugherty, Lindsay; Schweig, Jonathan David; Bozick, Robert; Gonzalez, Gabriella C. – RAND Corporation, 2014
In 2009, the City of New Haven and New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) announced a sweeping K-12 educational reform, New Haven School Change. The district had three primary goals for School Change: (1) close the gap between the performance of NHPS students' and Connecticut students' averages on state tests, (2) cut the high school dropout rate in…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Public Schools, Elementary Secondary Education, Achievement Gap
Download full textAmerican Association of Community and Junior Colleges, Washington, DC. Council for Occupational Education. – 1986
A study was conducted by the National Council of Occupational Education to measure the extent to which community, junior, and technical colleges were engaged in economic development activities. A questionnaire was mailed to 1,144 colleges in March and April of 1986, requesting information on the types of economic development activities performed…
Descriptors: College Role, Community Colleges, Cooperative Programs, Economic Development
Wolpe, Annemarie – 1994
A study reviewed nonformal education provided by community organizations, particularly that for women, in the Western Cape (South Africa). It was set against a background of the struggle against apartheid and women's special needs and interests. The interview schedule included open-ended and structured questions and was designed to elicit details…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Blacks, Community Organizations, Developing Nations
American Association of Community and Junior Colleges, Washington, DC. – 1991
In 1989, a national survey sponsored by the National Center for Research in Vocational Education was conducted of a random sample of 246 public community, technical, and junior colleges to ascertain the extent of the colleges' economic development activities outside of the regular curriculum, such as customized training, short-term vocational…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Economic Development, Employment Programs, Federal Aid
Lynch, Robert; And Others – 1991
In 1989-90, a national survey was conducted to assess the scope and nature of contract training and other economic development activities at community colleges and technical institutes. The survey was sent to a random sample of 246 community colleges, requesting information on the colleges' workforce and economic development activities in 1988-89.…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Contract Training, Cooperative Programs, Economic Development
MacAllum, Keith; Yoder, Karla; Poliakoff, Anne Rogers – Academy for Educational Development, 2004
The Community College Labor Market Responsiveness (CCLMR) Initiative was created by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Vocational and Adult Education (OVAE), to develop and disseminate information to enable community colleges to keep pace with the needs of a diverse student body and a dynamic labor market. The main goals of the initiative…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Labor Market, Labor Force Development, Economic Development
Kydd, Loring S.; Southworth, Warren D. – 1984
A pilot project was conducted in Bangor, Maine, to develop an entrepreneurship course and test it with secondary and postsecondary students. Following development of a plan and formation of an advisory committee composed of local entrepreneurs, bankers, representatives of economic development agencies, and legislators, a director was hired to…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Career Education, Community Cooperation, Cooperative Programs
National Association of State Directors of Career Technical Education Consortium, Washington, DC. – 2002
State directors of career and technical education (CTE) were asked about CTE's connection to workforce and economic development in their states. The CTE coordination rating scale that served as the basis of the national survey focused on the extent of coordination in the following areas: CTE's framework; CTE governance, CTE programs, CTE business…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Articulation (Education), Community Colleges, Cooperative Planning
