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Chang, Dian-Fu; Lin, Sung-Po – Online Submission, 2012
Since the government enacted the "Lifelong Learning Act" in 2002, Taiwanese working adults consider lifelong learning as a better route to increase their employability or competitiveness at work. This study analyzed the survey on adults administered by the Ministry of Education in Taiwan in 2008, and statistics analysis showed a close…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Foreign Countries, Learning Experience, Adult Education
Maglakelidze, Shorena; Giorgobiani, Zurab; Shukakidze, Berika – Online Submission, 2013
There is no fixed rule about how financial resources must be directed to the education sector. It is quite clear that the size of investment in the sector well defines the quality of education students are offered. It is highly important to define the amount of money, which is needed for effective functioning of schools and it is also important to…
Descriptors: General Education, Educational Finance, Public Schools, Funding Formulas
Karakhanyan, Susanna; van Veen, Klaas; Bergen, T.C.M. – Online Submission, 2010
The paper seeks to understand how higher education policy from the European Community is defused and transferred to Armenia, a developing country. Particularly, this study aims to delve deeper in the actual implementation process of higher education reforms in Armenia through teachers' perceptions. The findings mainly reveal that teachers do long…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy
Beach, Richard – Online Submission, 2011
This paper analyzes the influence of three different learning paradigms for learning literacy--formalist, cognitive-processing, and literacy practices--on the implementation of the Common Core State Standards. It argues that the Common Core State Standards are based largely on a formalist paradigm as evident in the emphasis on teaching text…
Descriptors: Text Structure, Models, State Standards, Educational Change
Oketch, Moses O.; Rolleston, Caine M. – Online Submission, 2007
Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda are among the countries in Sub-Saharan Africa which have recently implemented policies for free primary education, motivated in part by renewed democratic accountability following the re-emergence of multi-party politics in the 1990s. However, it is not the first time that the goal of expanding primary education has been…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Access to Education, Literature Reviews, Elementary Secondary Education
Palmer, Bill – Online Submission, 2004
An original study of the Ramsay Committee report entitled "Future Directions for Secondary Education in the Northern Territory" (the "Secondary Review") was presented in December 2004 at the ANZCIES National Conference in Melbourne. This was prior to the Northern Territory Government deciding how many of the recommendations of…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Policy, Indigenous Populations, Foreign Countries