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British Columbia Teachers' Federation, 2018
Last August, teachers wholeheartedly welcomed Minister Fleming's announcement that tuition fees for adult learners, which had posed such a significant barrier to thousands of students, would be eliminated. As the Minister pointed out when making the announcement, "Tuition fees on Adult Basic Education (ABE) and English Language Learning (ELL)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Students, Adult Learning, Educational Finance
Public School Forum of North Carolina, 2022
The North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI) and the Professional Educator Preparation and Standards Commission (PEPSC) of the State Board of Education are working on a new teacher licensure pathways proposal, Pathways to Excellence for Teaching Professionals (Model). This proposal, if enacted, would restructure the state's system…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, School Districts, Principals, Administrator Attitudes
Drago-Severson, Eleanor – 2002
The ways in which school leaders support teachers' transformational learning are influenced by the amount and types of resources available. This study examined how school leaders exercise their leadership to promote adult learning, what practices they used to support such learning, how they supported their own development, and what developmental…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Educational Finance, Educational Resources, Elementary Secondary Education
Klein-Collins, Becky – Council for Adult and Experiential Learning (NJ1), 2007
Employers are one of the largest sources of financial support for adult learning today. Some of this support goes to in-house training, but a significant amount--in the tens of billions of dollars, according to some estimates--goes to tuition reimbursement for employees. The Council for Adult and Experiential Learning (CAEL) has managed tuition…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Experiential Learning, Adult Learning, Corporations
Stanistreet, Paul – Adults Learning, 2007
In this article, the author discusses a project that turns residents of some of South Leeds' most deprived neighbourhoods into community researchers and is giving people an opportunity to make concrete, positive changes to their communities. Armed with homemade tools, some coloured pens, and masses of post-it notes, the "Community…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Community Involvement, City Government, Adult Learning
Australian Association of Adult Education. – 1974
The document contains recommendations and section reports from the National Conference on Lifelong Education, which the Australian Association of Adult Education organized and held in Canberra on November 23-29, 1973. Aims of the conference were to examine: (1) the present condition of Australian society as this bears on lifelong education, (2)…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Adult Learning, Community Organizations, Conference Reports
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Gray, David; Chadwick, Alan – International Review of Education, 2001
Describes a study that looked at keyworkers' (mediators between museums and public) contributions to lifelong learning and to helping members of public overcome cultural exclusion. Reports that field studies were undertaken in the United Kingdom, Sweden, and Ireland. States that the study was used to develop museum policy, to attract public to…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Community Resources, Continuing Education, Cultural Activities