The first five years of the Scottish Attainment Challenge saw much progress in closing the poverty-related attainment gap but at a limited pace. The pandemic disrupted the learning of our children and young people and had a disproportionate impact on children affected by poverty. The refreshed Scottish Attainment Challenge programme, backed by a…

The National Qualifications Framework (NQF) in Mauritius was created to play two distinct roles. First, it was intended to organise qualifications across the three main sectors of the education and training system: (1) primary and secondary education; (2) technical and vocational education and training (TVET)/workplace; and (3) tertiary education.…

The purpose of this article is to identify the physiological, psychosocial, and spiritual aspects of aging, as well as to emphasize the role of education as a total life experience that can result in understanding of the unique needs of the aging person. (Author/RK)

Discusses problems encountered in broadening the scope of physics training at both undergraduate and graduate levels. Suggests physics departments offer interdisciplinary courses, encourage applied research, and make efforts to prepare competent prospective teachers and improve science education in the primary and secondary schools. (CC)

Discusses the emergence of institutional research during the last decade and the need for an image for "potentiality of change" in higher education. Specifies steps in beginning and improving institutional research, and points to the crucial problem of developing priorities. The necessity of sustaining institutional support for projects is also…

Highlights the background and circumstances that led to the development of Black Studies as an area of specialization, its subsequent institutionalization, and the role and function it serves for present and future generations. Also considers the practical value of a degree in Black Studies. (Author/KH)

If Australia's adult educators involved in adult literacy, language, and numeracy provision are to initiate significant changes in the inequalities existing in Australian society, they must examine a range of issues extending far beyond classroom walls. Much discussion about workplace communication in recent years has evolved from the growing…

Career education is described as a concept designed to serve as a vehicle for educational reform in ways that will bring a more proper emphasis to "education as preparation for work" among basic goals of education at any level in the educational system. Several subconcepts of career education are discussed that seem to hold special relevance for…