This report is another milestone of the European Training Foundation's (ETF) project 'Decentralising vocational education and training (VET) in Ukraine: Momentum for action', launched in 2016 in cooperation with the Ministry of Education and Science (MoES) of Ukraine. This project identified several priority areas for steering systemic reforms in…

There is wide agreement that the well-paying jobs of the future will require postsecondary credentials. But for many students attending community college, developmental (or remedial) classes in reading, composition, and/or mathematics--the courses that students often must complete before they can enroll in courses that confer credit toward a…

As part of its work to advance the multiple pathways approach to high school education, the James Irvine Foundation engaged the Bridgespan Group to develop a framework for assessing the nature and needs of the fields in which nonprofits operate. These agents of change often struggle to understand how to focus their field-building investments and…

Describes Elderhostel, a non-profit educational organization that offers inexpensive, short-term academic programs hosted by educational institutions around the world. Provides findings from two investigations of the Elderhostel programs, in 1990 and 1997. Focuses on the program's musical component. (CMK)