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Elizabeth A. Roumell; Florin D. Salajan – Commission for International Adult Education, 2023
Lifelong Learning (LLL) has become a pliable term in educational discourse running the risk of meaning both everything and nothing, making it necessary to look at how the notion of LLL has been taken up in different contexts, especially within the context of policy development. Because of the inconsistent ways LLL has been peppered throughout…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Lifelong Learning, Adult Education, Educational Policy
Louise Campbell – Oxford Review of Education, 2025
Policy cycles are initiated via a variety of context-bound causal drivers. In situations where systemic reform is desired, agenda-setting is vital to this process. This paper examines 'The National Discussion on Scottish Education', which was a sequence of stakeholder engagements promoted as a listening exercise to enable policy agenda-setting for…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Agenda Setting, Position Papers, Strategic Planning
Marcella de Carvalho Winter de Aquino – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation investigated the development of stereotypes surrounding public school children in Brazil, primarily focusing on poor students of Afro descent. It explored how these stereotypes have influenced education policymaking and examined the efforts of Darcy Ribeiro and Paulo Freire to challenge these prevailing notions. Employing…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Stereotypes, Racism, Blacks
McCallum, Elin – UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre for Technical and Vocational Education and Training, 2019
As a result of its direct link to the labour market, technical and vocational education and training (TVET) plays an important role in equipping the modern workforce with in-demand skills. This discussion paper aims to inspire the introduction of entrepreneurial learning in TVET towards a fully mainstreamed approach, whereby entrepreneurial…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Vocational Education, Technical Education, Teaching Methods
Andersson, Ingela; Wärvik, Gun-Britt; Thång, Per-Olof – Online Submission, 2015
The article explores the major features of the Swedish Government's new initiative--a school based Upper Secondary Apprenticeship model. The analyses are guided by activity theory. The analysed texts are part of the parliamentary reform-making process of the 2011 Upper Secondary School reform. The analyses unfold how the Government, the Swedish…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Apprenticeships, Secondary Education, Educational Change
Andersson, Ingela; Wärvik, Gun-Britt; Thång, Per-Olof – International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2015
The article explores the major features of the Swedish Government's new initiative--a school based Upper Secondary Apprenticeship model. The analyses are guided by activity theory. The analysed texts are part of the parliamentary reform-making process of the 2011 Upper Secondary School reform. The analyses unfold how the Government, the Swedish…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Apprenticeships, Secondary Education, Educational Change
Gornitzka, Ase – European Journal of Education, 2010
This article presents a horizontal perspective on the dynamics of governance sites currently active for the European of Knowledge and places the Bologna process in this wider European level context. It introduces two dynamics of change in political organisation: (a) institutional differentiation and specialisation and (b) the interaction between…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Governance, Labor Force Development
Colorado Children's Campaign, 2012
Over the last decade, Colorado has emerged as a national leader in crafting innovative solutions for challenges facing its public school system. From implementing the Colorado Student Assessment Program (CSAP) and No Child Left Behind (NCLB) reforms to more recent legislation including standards and assessments for a preschool-through-college…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Accountability, Stakeholders, Educational Quality
Spence, Chris – Education Commission of the States (NJ3), 2007
One strategy for addressing the misalignment among postsecondary education, state workforce development programs and state economic development strategies is to create career pathways programs at community colleges where students are able to enroll in a defined track of coursework that leads to jobs in high-demand fields within a state or region.…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Educational Change, Labor Force Development, Community Colleges
Group of Eight (NJ1), 2010
Universities have much to contribute to the improvement of health delivery, research, and teaching/learning. In progressing health reform, the Government should be mindful of the need to: (1) strengthen high quality medical research; (2) promote translation of research to teaching, population health and health services; and (3) address Health…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Health Services, Stakeholders, Educational Change
New Mexico Higher Education Department, 2010
This annual report contains postsecondary data that has been collected and analyzed using the New Mexico Higher Education Department's Data Editing and Reporting (DEAR) database, unless otherwise noted. The purpose of the DEAR system is to increase the reliability in the data and to make more efficient efforts by institutions and the New Mexico…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Higher Education, State Departments of Education, Universities
Williams, T. David – Comp Educ Rev, 1969
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Economic Factors, Educational Change, Educational Needs
Competitiveness Policy Council, Washington, DC. – 1992
The United States today is becoming less competitive in the world, due in large measure to short-term thinking, perverse incentives for saving and investing, and an absence of global thinking. Six issues demand high priority in order to change this situation: saving and investment, education and training, technology, corporate governance and…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Competition, Economic Development, Educational Change
Minnesota Governor's Commission on Post-Secondary Education. – 1992
Commissioned by the governor of Minnesota, a study was done of the state's current resources, and future needs with a view to planning an integrated, efficient and effective system of post-secondary education. Through a series of eight meetings and visits to over 70 campuses where commissioners talked to students, educators, policy makers and…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Accountability, Blue Ribbon Commissions, Delivery Systems

Tuijnman, Albert C. – International Review of Education/Internationale Zeitschrift fuer Erziehungswissenschaft/Revue Internationale de Pedagogie, 1992
Describes factors contributing to 1980s expansion of adult vocational education (AE) and training in Europe, reviewing demographic, economic, political, and social factors. Discusses ramifications of emerging decentralization in educational decision making. Examines potential conflict between emphasis on economic and labor market objectives of AE…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Continuing Education, Decentralization, Economic Factors