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Download full textHughes, Maria; Gray, Sue – FE Matters, 1998
In 1996, small and medium-sized enterprises constituted 99% of all businesses in the United Kingdom in all but the electricity, gas, and water supply sector, providing 46% of nongovernment employment. SMEs' concern with day-to-day demands leaves them with limited time and resources to consider their training needs. Although providing support and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Case Studies, Delivery Systems
Preece, Julia, Ed. – 1998
This book contains 12 papers exploring the problem of strengthening the notion of the United Kingdom as a learning society by making the country's higher education system more responsive to the various social groups that have traditionally been underrepresented in all areas of the nation's formal, postcompulsory education system. The following…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Action Research, Adult Learning, Case Studies
Thompson, Jane – 2001
The relationship between lifelong learning, active citizenship, and neighborhood renewal was explored in the context of the British government's declared intention to address the consequences of poverty through neighborhood renewal, encourage public participation in renewal, and make lifelong learning a central strategy for ensuring future…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Case Studies, Change Strategies
Barr, Jean – 1999
This book, which is directed toward tutors and learners in women's studies and community-based adult education programs who wish to cross the boundaries between arts, social science, and natural science, explores the relationship between research, feminism, and adult education. The book begins with a preface that provides background information on…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Learning, Adult Programs
Newton, Jethro – 2000
The prospects for managing the tension between accountability and improvement in further and higher education (FHE) were examined through a literature review and a 5-year ethnographic study of a change management project at a higher education college in Wales. Special attention was paid to the following challenges facing FHE: globalization; the…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Accountability, Administrator Attitudes, Adult Education
Volk, Lucia – 2000
An anthropological examination of the impact of globalization on education in the Arab world reveals that education is standing on uneasy middle ground between the Westernization of educational structures and philosophies and the preservation of national and local customs and traditions. The transformation of education from a means to acquire a…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Anthropology, Case Studies
