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McLure, Felicity I.; Aldridge, Jill M. – School Leadership & Management, 2023
This systematic literature review analysed research related to education reform published between 2000 and 2020. Empirical evidence from 249 studies identified factors hindering or facilitating the long-term success of reform implementation. Eight overarching, actionable themes were found to influence success. Six themes describe requirements at…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Sustainability, Program Implementation, Success
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Finkel, Ed – Community College Journal, 2021
In recent years and especially over the past 12 months, with the COVID-19 pandemic and the unrest after the death of George Floyd, community colleges have been making efforts to view and rethink their missions through an equity lens. These efforts have included turning this prism toward institutional operations like student services, human…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Equal Education, Minority Group Students, Adult Students
Frey, Susan – EdSource, 2012
Adult schools are facing the biggest threat to their existence since the first school was founded in California a century and a half ago. An EdSource survey in October-November 2011 found that 23 of the state's 30 largest school districts had made major cuts to their adult education programs, including Anaheim Union High School District, which…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Educational Finance, School Districts, Educational Change
Grant, Mary S. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Continuing education units enable institutions of higher education to extend university resources to the larger community for the purposes of addressing key issues in the community, region, and state. Continuing education units have been engaged in strategic planning exercises since the I980's and have developed organizational models and methods…
Descriptors: Research Universities, Continuing Education, Higher Education, Strategic Planning
Wolf, Alison – Learning and Skills Network (NJ3), 2010
This monograph discusses how to make England's further education (FE) system genuinely responsive to learner demand, as well as stable, affordable, and of high quality. It looks at how a demand-driven system can be organised and funded, at what is required of governments, and what can be left to learners themselves and to the education and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Public Agencies
Group of Eight (NJ1), 2010
The Group of Eight (Go8) welcomes the Government's commitment to developing a comprehensive research workforce strategy. Australia's research capacity and the continuing translation of research into policy, products and services is directly linked to the future productivity of the economy, social wellbeing, environmental outcomes and the nation's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Needs, Educational Quality, Labor Force Development